Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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2OO 107. 108. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES INVESTIGATION OF WATER INVESTIGATION OF F U E L S . — SUPPLIES.—In connection with State W a t e r Survey. (a) (b) (c) 109. Heating power, calorimetric methods. Adaptation of bituminous coal to gas manufacture, purification of products. Coke and by-products. Corrosion and scaling of steam boilers. Purification of feed waters. Cements and mortars. Paints and pigments. CIVIL ENGINEERING SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.— (a) (b) (c) (d) 1. LAND SURVEYING.—Areas and distances by chain, compass, and plane table; U. S. public land surveys, including legal points involved in the reestablishment of boundaries; magnetic variation and determination of true meridian. The students solve numerous problems in the field with instruments. Bellows and Hodgman's Surveyor's Manual. I.; daily; 6 and 7; (5). Assistant Professor RETCHUM. Required: 2. General Engineering Drawing 1, 2; Math. 3. DRAWING AND SURVEYING.—Topographical TOPOGRAPHICAL drawing is given during the bad weather of the first semester. During the second semester topographical surveying is taught, in which students solve problems with the plane table and the stadia, and make a topographical survey and plot the notes. This subject must be taken the first semester in connection with course 1 above, and the second semester in connection with course 3 below. 3. TRANSIT SURVEYING AND LEVELING.—Construction, adjust- ment, and use of the transit and level; angles, inaccessible distances, and areas with the transit; profiles and contours with the level. The instruments are in constant use by the students whenever the weather permits. In connection with this subject students may receive instruction in blue-printing, etc., chemistry 22c. Baker's Engineers' Surveying Instruments. II.; daily; Section A, s and 3, Section B, 6 and 7; (5). Assistant Professor KETCHUM. Required: Civil Engineering 1. 4. RAILROAD ENGINEERING.—In the field practice the class makes preliminary and location surveys of a line of railroad of sufficient length to secure familiarity with the methods of actual practice. Each
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