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selection of Hartmann and Braun's best grade resistance boxes, Wolff, Hartmann, and Crompton potentiometers, about 50 galvanometers of different sensibilities and types, certificated condensers, etc., etc. Stability is secured by six large piers built up from the ground and separated from the floor of the laboratory. Heavy maple wall benches also furnish suitable supports for delicate apparatus. Two shops are on the first floor. The mechanician's shop is in the annex and is a room 52 by 25 feet in size, lighted from the north. The shop is provided with a Browne and Sharp milling machine, Hendey-Norton lathe, drill press, etc., driven from shafting by an electric motor. There is also a eomplete outfit of bench tools. The students' shop is for the use of advanced students and instructors. It is supplied with lathes, bench tools, etc. The floor of this shop is a large, reinforced concrete slab, floated on a sand and gravel foundation. It is thus separated from the walls of the building, so that vibrations of the machinery may not be communicated to the research rooms. The second floor accommodates the laboratory in general physics for students in the sciences and arts. The heat laboratory, which is on this floor, is equipped with apparatus and facilities to care for the demand for measurements of high and low temperatures. This apparatus includes pyrometers, furnaces, and a set of thermometers of various ranges calibrated at the Beichsanstalt. Provision is also made to care for the usual experiments that present themselves in advanced heat courses.

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