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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Libraries and Museums 127 the finished products illustrating the briquetting of coal, models of a metalliferous mine and of timber and steel mine supports, a complete exhibit of explosive and blasting materials and appliances, the Braeger, Fleuss and Westphalia breathing apparatus, and all of the appliances necessary for mine rescue and first aid demonstration, a collection of safety-lamps and other mine lights ing devices, and working drawings and photographs of mine machinery. RAILWAY ENGINEERING81 The department of Railway Engineering has an unusually complete exhibit of photographs illustrating the development in transportation; an exhibit showing the progress in the design and manufacture of rails; models of locomotive valve gears; a full-sized model of the front end of a Richmond compound locomotive ; and sets of working drawings of locomotives, cars and other railway equipment, This collection was begun in 1906. During the past years 1912-14 an especially large number of photographs of both American and foreign equipment, forms of bridge construction, etc., were added. Several other departments of the College of Engineering possess collections of historical materials drawn from their respective fields of practise. The department of mechanical engineering is the custodian of a 600 H. P. vertical triple-expansion engine, direct connected with an electric generator, a type of machine in common use for power station service twenty years ago. The departments of Civil Engineering and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics maintain exhibits of tested specimens and structures.82 *Univ. of HI. Annual Begister. 1913-14, p. 79. Cf. Univ. of 11L Eegisters, 1903-04, pp. 47-52; 1916-17, pp. 60-62 w Cf. Univ. of HI. Annual Begister, 1916-17, p. 68
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