Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 78]

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT

The class rooms, drafting rooms, seminary rooms, laboratory for more exact electrical measurements, studies, and offices are in Engineering Hall. The dynamo laboratory, battery room, photometer room, and workshop are in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. The department has the six large pier-rooms of the physics department for the more exact electrical and magnetic measurements. These rooms, with their equipment, are described in more detail under the equipment of the physics department. The drafting and seminary rooms are well lighted and supplied with every convenience. The seminary room is accessible to members of the upper classes at all times. It contains files of the leading journals of theoretical and applied electricity in English, French, and German, besides a department reference library. The dynamo laboratory is equipped with various types of direct current dynamos and motors, alternators and transformers, with apparatus and every convenience for making complete tests. Included in this equipment are a 300-light Thomson-Houston alternator with exciter, switchboard appliances, and a large number of transformers of various makes; also Brush and Thomson-Houston arc light machines, Thomson-Houston and Edison incandescent machines, and 500-volt generators, several Jenny motors, and two small Westinghouse single-phase machines. The equipment includes a large number of Weston voltmeters, ammeters and wattmeters, thus giving facilities for the accurate determination of E. M. F., current and power in both direct and alternate current circuits. In addition to these are various other standard instruments, such as a number of Whitney and Hoyt ammeters, Kelvin balances and electrostatic voltmeters, several different makes of recording and indicating wattmeters, electro-dynamometers, electrometers, hysteresis meters, condensers, inductive and non-inductive resistances, lamp and water rheostats, Brackett cradle dynamometer, tachometers, revolving con-