Repository: UIHistories Project: Engineering Open House Guide - 1920 (Watt Centennial) [PAGE 9]

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VI. Mining Engineering Laboratory The Department of Mining Engineering offers courses of instruction in coal and ore mining and in metallurgy. A student may specialize in the geological phases of mining, including work in oil prospecting and development. Illinois ranks third in the mineral products of the United States including coal, oil, lead, zinc, fluor spar, etc'\x Below the surface of the State there is approximately 36,800 square miles of coal in seams of sufficient thickness to justify mining operations.^ Of these coal resources only about one per cent has so far^been mined. L Demonstrations in mine ventilations andflighting. 2* Equipment for hydro-metallurgy and^testing. 3. First aid and rescue work. 4. Explosives and methods of blasting. 5. Demonstration in ore dressing. 6. Demonstrations in coal washing andTpreparation. VII. Mining and Railway Museum (Between the Mining Laboratory and the Transportation" Building) 1. Automatic mine door. 2. Facsimile of a section of early American railway using stone ties. 3. A cross section of a locomotive. 4. An early locomotive testing plant. VIII. Transportation Building Devoted largely to instruction in^the^different branches of railway engineering science, with curriculums in railway civil, railway electrical, and railway mechanical engineering. Part of the building is used by the Departments of Mining Engineering and General Engineering Drawing. Illinois is one of the first four states having'the largest steam and electric mileage. More than eight per cent of the population^of the state is engaged in the transportation industries. The war demonstrated the importance to"the'Nation of developing its transportation facilities. 1. 2. 3. 4. First Floor Model of a Walschaert locomotive'valve gear* Exhibit of rails taken from the Monon Railroad tracks which show rail development from 1840 to 1910. Comparison of old and modern railway car couplers. Series of lantern slide pictures illustrating steam engine development from the Watt engine to the modern locomotive.