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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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MECHANICS 85 The constant-temperature room is on the first floor. It is isolated from the surrounding space by double masonry walls and double doors. It is arranged for such experiments as require a low, uniform temperature. The department shares with the electrical engineering department the workshop in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. This gives the department special facilities for preparing special apparatus of use in advanced and original investigations. In addition to the preceding, there are a number of private studies and laboratories for the use of advanced students and instructors. Electrical current is supplied to all the laboratories from the battery room, and also from the dynamo laboratory in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS The courses in theoretical and applied mechanics are designed to meet the needs of students of the College of Engineering. EQUIPMENT The laboratory of applied mechanics is located in the Metal Shops. It comprises the materials laboratory and the hydraulic laboratory. The materials laboratory has an Olsen testing machine of 200,000 pounds' capacity, arranged to test beams twenty feet long; a Riehle testing machine of 100,000 pounds' capacity; a smaller apparatus for testing beams, a Riehle wire-testing machine, extensometers and deflectometers, a stone-grinding machine, a rattler for abrasion tests of stone and brick, with other apparatus for making all necessary measurements and observations, etc. The laboratory is fitted up as a working laboratory, where students may acquire such practice in experimental work as engineers are called upon to perform, as well as for the purpose of illustrating principles, and also for use in original investigation. The hydraulic laboratory contains a steel standpipe con-
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