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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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84 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING oratory, large lecture room, special testing and thesis rooms, battery room, photometry rooms, students' shop, and instructor's office are in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. The six large pier-rooms of the department of physics are used for advanced 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 senior class 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 continuous 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, a 40-horse power Westinghouse two-phase induction motor, Brush and Thomson-Houston arc light machines, Edison, Westinghouse, and Jenney 500-volt motors, a complete electric car equipment for testing purposes, a Jenney 220-volt dynamo, Edison (two machines), Thomson-Houston, Weston, United States, and other 110-volt dynamos; also two small Westinghouse alternators, and a number of fan and battery motors. A marble switchboard, consisting of eight large panels, has been designed with special reference to facilitating the work in the laboratory. From it can be distributed to all parts of the building alternating and continuous currents of various electromotive forces. Connection can easily be made to the various circuits of the University lighting plant, and to the storage battery. There are two large cabinets of instruments for laboratory use. Among them are Weston ammeters, voltmeters, and wattmeters, Whitney, Hoyt, and Queen ammeters, Ayrton and Perry ammeters and voltmeters, Cardew and Queen voltmeters, Siemens dynamometers,
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