Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 90]

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

one 50 horse-power Westinghouse engine, and one 100 horse-power Ideal tandem compound engine. These engines are supplied with high pressure steam through an independent main to the boilers. There are five other experimental steam engines, connected by independent steam main to the boilers. There are also gas engines, air compressors, a volume fan, steam pumps, a hot air engine, and numerous steam specialties arranged for experimental tests. The laboratory contains a large assortment of the usual instruments for testing purposes. A four-ton traveling crane of 20-foot span covers the central floor space. The boiler room of the new central heating station contains one vertical boiler, one 100 horse-power horizontal tubular boiler, equipped with Brightman mechanical stoker, one 250 horse power National water tube boiler, equipped with the Murphy furnaces, two 220 horse-power Babcock & Wilcox boilers, equipped with the Roney mechanical stokers, together with all necessary accessory apparatus, all available for testing purposes. The pumping station and power plants of the two cities furnish additional opportunities for experimental work. Considerable apparatus designed for use on locomotive road tests has been constructed and arrangements have been made for regular tests of locomotives in actual service. The department now owns with the P. & E. Division of the C, C, C. & St. L. Ry. a fully equipped dynamometer car, No. 609. This car has been designed and built for locomotive and railway tests, and is used for no other purpose. It has sleeping accommodations for four persons. It is designed with special reference for the following service: 1. Locomotive road tests for economy. 2. Measurements of train resistance and of hauling capacity of locomotives. 3. Automatic track inspection for line and grade. 4. Airbrake service inspection. 5. Stationary plant tests at Railway Shops.