Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 91]

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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The machine shop, foundry, and forge shop are located in the Metal Shops. The machine shop contains one twenty-seven-inch by twelve-foot bed F. E. Reed & Co. engine lathe; one twentyone-inch by fourteen-foot bed Putnam Standard Engine lathe; twelve engine lathes of from twelve- to twenty-inch swing; two ten-inch speed lathes; one centering lathe; one fifteen-inch Gould & Eberhardt shaper; one fifteen-inch Hendey shaper; one No. 3 Brown & Sharpe plain milling machine; one Brainard universal milling machine; one twenty- by twenty-inch by five-foot Putnam planer; one thirty- by thirty-inch by eight-foot G. A. Gray & Co., planer; one No. 2 improved Brown & Sharpe universal grinding machine; one Brown & Sharpe cutter and reamer grinder; one No. 1 Bickford radial drill; one twenty-eight-inch drill press; one twenty-inch drill press; one sensitive drill press; one water emery tool grinder; one center grinding machine; one Stover power hack saw; one Worcester twist drill grinder; complete set of United States standard taps and dies, drills, arbors, reamers, gear and milling cutters, caliper gauges, calipers, scales, and other small tools. The wood shop occupies the first floor of the Wood Shops and Testing Laboratory, and contains twenty-six improved wood-working benches, fourteen of which are fitted with Wyman and Gordon patent vises; one thirtyfour-inch F H. Clement & Co. band saw; one thirty-six inch Yerkes & Finan band saw; one twenty-inch Clement & Co. band saw; one thirty-six inch Yerkes & Finan band saw; one twenty-inch Clement & Co. wood planer; one J. A. Fay & Co. jig-saw; one J. A. Fay & Co. jointer; eight teninch wood lathes; one eighteen-inch pattern-makers' lathe; one No. 4 E. Fox trimmer, together with a complete equipment of small tools. The foundry occupies a room 48 by 48 feet in the Metal Shops, and is equipped with a twenty-four-inch Whiting patent cupola, a core oven, and the necessary sand, ladles, and flasks for making castings. A No. 7 Buffalo steel pressure fan furnishes blast for the cupola.