Repository: UIHistories Project: Engineering Open House Guide - 1920 (Watt Centennial) [PAGE 7]

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Engineering Library is used by about 2500 students per week. 1. Large paintings showing the proposed development of the College of Engineering. Surveying and hydrographic equipment of the Department of Civil Engineering, 1. Transits, levels, plane tables. 2. Surveying and mapping exhibits. 3. Current meters and other hydrographic equipment. II. Laboratory of Physics Equipped to give training to engineering students in the fundamentals of the physical sciences and to give advanced training to prepare specialists for the solution of research problems in connection with the technical industries. Research departments are rapidly becoming an important part of many industries. Inspection of first floor only. 1. Electrical measurements laboratory. 2. Color exhibit with mercury arc. 3. Optical measurements. 4. Radio receiving station. 5. The new singing tube. (An experiment automatically demonstrated). 6. Mercury vapor pumps in the production of high vacua. 7. Rayleign resonator. Wave motion. 8. Demonstration with liquid air. 9. Liquid air plant in operation. 10. Exhibit of physics apparatus constructed in department shop. III. Ceramic Building Built in response to demands from the Illinois Clay Workers' Association for a department devoted to the technology of the industries engaged in the manufacture of clay products, glass, cement) lime,fgypsum, enameled iron, etc. First Floor 1. Display panels showing different styles of face brick. Donated and erected by brick manufactureres of Illinois and Western Indiana. 2. Grinding and mixing equipment for preparing slips and glazes. 3. Laboratories for the preparation and study of glazes, bodies, and ceramic raw materials. 4. Concrete laboratory of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Devoted to investigations on concrete and reinforced concrete* a. Test of a large reinforced concrete beam.