Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1899-1900 [PAGE 32]

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U N I V E R S I T Y OF

ILLINOIS

department of electrical engineering, and the masonry laboratories and instrument rooms of the department of civil engineering. The second story contains the lecture room and the preparation rooms of .the department of physics, and the recitation and drawing rooms, cabinets, and studies of the departments of civil and municipal engineering, and the main office of the department of electrical engineering. The third story contains the elementary laboratory of the department of physics, the drawing rooms, lecture rooms, cabinets, and studies of the mechanical departments, as well as the library, the office, and the faculty parlor. The fourth story is devoted to the department of architecture, and contains drawing and lecture rooms, cabinets, a photo studio, and a blue-print laboratory. The Wood Shops and Testing Laboratory is two stories high, 126 feet in length, and 88 feet in width, and contains the laboratory of applied mechanics, the hydraulic laboratory, and the wood shop on the first floor. The second floor is occupied by the Men's Gymnasium. The Metal Shops is a one-story brick building, 50 by 250 feet. It contains a lecture room, two office rooms, a machine shop, a foundry, and a forge shop. The machine shop is 48 by 140 feet. Power is supplied by a 20 H. P. electric motor. A three-ton traveling crane of 12 foot span covers the center of the floor for the entire length, extending over a covered driveway between the machine shop and foundry. The Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory is a pressed brick building, two stories high, 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a one-story wing 90 feet long and 50 feet wide. There is also a basement under the main part, containing some special testing rooms, store rooms, and the toilet and wash rooms. The Central Heating Station is a brick building, 55 by 120 feet. It contains the apparatus used for heating the buildings on the campus. An annex contains the pump room and the stock room. The pipes of the heating system and the wires for power and light are carried from the