Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 76]

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

The drawing rooms are equipped with modern desks, boards, filing cabinets, card indexes, reference books, catalogues, odontographs, gear charts, tables, etc. In the cabinet rooms are kinematic models and sectioned steam specialties, many of which were donated by the manufacturers. The mechanical engineering laboratory is in the Engineering Laboratory. It contains engines, boilers, pumps, a surface condenser, and a large assortment of indicators, gauges, scales, thermometers, dynamometers, calorimeters, reducing motions, planimeters, measuring tanks, and apparatus for the calibration of instruments. The engines may be run either with or without a condenser, with plain slide or expansion valves, or with automatic or throttling governors. Power is transmitted from the engines in this laboratory to the machine shop by a thirty-horse-power rope drive. Water is brought to the laboratory through a 2-inch main, furnishing a supply for condensers and boiler feed. The heating and power plant of the University contains nine boilers: two Boot, one Sterling, four horizontal tubular, and two Babcock & Wilcox, aggregating eight hundred-horse power. These furnish additional opportunity for experiment. Tests are also made at the power plants, pumping station, and factories of the two cities. The machine shop, foundry, and forge shop are located in Machinery Building. The machine shop contains one twenty-seven inch by twelve-foot bed F. E. Reed & Co. engine lathe ; twelve engine lathes of from twelve to twenty-inch swing ; two teninch speed lathes ; one centering lathe ; one fifteen-inch Gould and Eberhardt shaper ; one fifteen-inch Hendey shaper; one No. 3 Brown and Sharpe plain milling machine ; one Brainard universal milling machine ; one twenty by twentyinch by five-foot Putnam planer; one thirty by thirtyinch by eight-foot G. A. Gray & Co. planer; one No. 2 improved Brown and Sharpe universal grinding machine; one Brown and Sharpe cutter and reamer grinder; one twenty-four inch drill press; one twenty-inch drill press; one sensitive drill press ; one water emery tool grinder ; one center grinding machine ; one Stover power hack saw ; complete sets of United States standard taps and dies; drills,