Repository: UIHistories Project: Engineering Open House Guide - 1920 (Watt Centennial) [PAGE 14]

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This laboratory has been materially increased in size and entirely remodeled so as to provide two floors, each nearly 120 ft. by 125 ft. in area. 1» Double flume for measuring large quantities of water, such as circulating water for condensers, discharge of pumps, etc. 2. Peerless 6-cylinder automobile engine in operation. Engine develops 70-brake horse power. 3. Two Chandler and Taylor simple throttling engines operated together as a cross compound engine. 4. Allis-Chalmers 12"x24" Corliss engine equipped with a variable speed governor giving a range from 20 to 130 revolutions per minute. 5. Southwark 400-horse power, 3-cylinder, triple expansion, vertical steam engine donated by Commonwealth Edison Company. A large unit which was discarded because of the rapid advance in steam engineering. 6. Fairbanks-Morse double-acting, underwriters pump driven by a direct-connected, tandem-compound, steam engine in operation. 7. Ingersoll-Sergeant two-stage air compressor driven by a direct-connected, cross-compound, steam engine in operation. 8. Bogart single-acting, four-cycle illuminating gas or gasoline engine in operation. 9. An experimental warm-air furnace heating plant. (See note on cooperative investigation of warm-air furnaces, etc., at back of program.) XII. Highway Laboratory (Of the Department of Civil Engineering) Inspection of first floor. Equipped for testing gravel, stone, and paving brick. 1. Apparatus for testing road materials. 2. Exhibit of road materials. 3. Models, charts, and views illustrating good and bad road construction. The laboratories for testing Portland cement, road oil,rtars, and asphalts are located on the second floor and may be visited by those interested.