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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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3° UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ELECTRICAL. ENGINEERING A number of display boards of wires and cables has been collected, together with carbons, insulators, lighting specialties, signaling devices, primary and secondary cells, rail bonds, and several hundred photographs, blue-prints, and pamphlets descriptive of the best modern practice in electrical engineering. MECHANICAL. ENGINEERING This department has among other things a partial set of Reuleaux models, together with models of valve gears, sections of steam pumps, injectors, valves, skeleton steam and water gauges, standard packings, steam-pipe coverings, and drop forgings. There are also fine examples of castings, perforated metal, defective boiler plates, and sets of drills, with numerous samples of oil, iron, and steel. A large number of working drawings from leading firms and from the United States Navy Department forms a valuable addition to the above collections. GEOLOGICAL Lithology is represented by type collections of rocks (2,900 specimens), arranged to illustrate Rosenbusch, from Voigt and Hochgesang, Dr. L. Eger, and A. Kranz; a type collection from Ward; a large number of ornamental building stones, and a stratigraphic collection to illustrate Illinois geology. The mineralogical collection is especially rich in rockforming minerals, ores, and materials of economic value. It contains over 7,000 specimens carefully selected to meet the wants of the student. The paleontological collection (43,400 specimens) contains representative fossils from the entire geologic series. It embraces the private collections of Dr. A. H. Worthen, including 650 type specimens; Tyler McWhorter; Rev. Mr. Hertzer; the Ward collection of casts, and a considerable number of special collections representing the fauna and flora of particular groups.
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