UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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292 ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY vertebrates. The museum collections of all the engineering departments are large, for from the very beginnings of the University their comparative prosperity has enabled them to obtain growing stores of blue prints, working drawings, photographs, building materials, fittings, and parts of machinery; while the attention Western engineering and architectural interests have paid the departments has brought them many gifts. Agriculture of course has all the illustrative materials needed, from wax models of fruit to a collection of threshing machines. Twenty-six departments of the University are equipped with laboratories, placed in a dozen buildings. The University's isolation necessitates possession of some materials that in a large city the departments could find elsewhere. The engineering group makes a particularly good showing. The locomotive testing laboratory is the most complete of its kind in America, being fitted to measure speed and power of locomotives, and strength of rails, car axles, couplers, and brakes; while it has its own electric and steam test cars. The mining engineering laboratory contains materials for drilling, blasting, mine rescue, and ore concentration work. In the mechanical engineering laboratory are large experimental boiler plants and gas engines, and such pieces of special equipment as an.ice and refrigerating machine capable of making one and a half tons of ice a day. In civil engineering are satisfactory road and cement laboratories, and in electrical engineering a wealth of machinery—sixty direct or alternating current machines, fifty transformers, experimental telephone switchboards, and so on. In physics there is a collection of 5,000 pieces of apparatus, from a liquid air plant to an oscillator; fine machine work can be done in

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