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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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36 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING The department has a collection of samples illustrating standard practice in the industrial applications of electricity. There is also a rapidly growing collection of lantern slides, photographs, blue-prints, drawings, pamphlets, and other engineering data. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING This department has among other things a partial set of Reuleaux models, together with models of valve gears, sections of steam pumps, injectors, valves, skeleton steam and water gauges, standard packings, steam-pipe coverings, and drop forgings. There are also fine examples of castings, perforated metal, defective boiler plates, and sets of drills, with numerous samples of oil, iron, and steel. A large number of working drawings from leading firms and from the United States Navy Department forms a valuable addition to the above collections. GEOLOGICAL Lithology is represented by type collections of rocks (5,500 specimens), arranged to illustrate Rosenbusch; from Voigt and Hochgesang, L. Eger, and A. Kranz; a type collection from Ward; 745 thin sections of rocks and minerals; a large number of ornamental building stones; a stratigraphic collection to illustrate Illinois geology, and a collection of Illinois soils (104). The mineralogical collection is especially rich in rockforming minerals, ores, and materials of economic value. It contains over 10,900 specimens carefully selected to meet the wants of the student, and 575 crystal models. The paleontological collection (45,000 specimens) contains representative fossils from the entire geologic series. It embraces the private collections of A. H. Worthen (including 742 type specimens) ; Tyler McWhorter; Mr. Hertzer; 200 thin sections of corals; the Ward collection of casts, and a considerable number of special collections representing the fauna and flora of particular groups.
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