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Caption: Booklet - UI Informational Pamplet (1945)
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ys °w where >Ught, for ld health, Wing, the d a thouty is to ~e needed ictivity is mankind ractically iuced rerson. d Nation d million be made Some of heading "ete and f Illinois standing evolved. Illinois. i largest )f strucarch. College ast year valuable >re t h a n S1 I esearc Contributions Testing carried on by the University for more than a quart rrcentury. For more than 25 years the University has Studied problems of home heating and air conditioning. Facts revealed about furnace performance, insulation, and air conditions in the home have provided greater comfort and as much as 50 per cent fuel saving to the N a t i o n ' s home owners. A recent development in heating is t h e "downdraft coking principle," t h o r o u g h l y tested for use both in a conversion unit for present furnaces and in the "Furnace of the F u t u r e " to burn soft coal without smoke and with 25 per cent saving. — Many years of investigations by University engineers on the fundamental properties of metals have developed a completely n e w u n d e r s t a n d i n g of w h a t is termed "fatigue" of metals. As a result, m a c h i n e r y which includes battleships and t a n k s and g u n s — is stronger and more t r u s t w o r t h y . Research m e t h o d s used in studying metals now are being applied also in the field of plastics. — F a r m e r s have benefited immeasurably t h r o u g h hundreds of results from research by the College of Agriculture carried to the farm t h r o u g h teaching, extension activities, and publications. N o phase of farming has been u n t o u c h e d : cultivation, erosion, soil t r e a t m e n t , improved crops and fruits, livestock and poultry, farm management and h o m e life. M o r e recently the entire program has been pointed t o w a r d increasing w a r t i m e foods, feed, fibre and fat, and to stimulating interest in national and world obligations. T h e Chemistry D e p a r t m e n t has made remarkable c o n t r i b u t i o n s in m a n y fields, including coal, synthetic derivatives for medicine, Concrete X - r a y work on rubber, metals, and other materials, in boiler e m b r i t t l e m e n t , in a m i n o acids, and many o t h e r subjects. — T h e health of the United States, and of her soldiers, is being protected and restored because of the results of fundamental and applied research in the University's Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and P h a r m a c y in Chicago. Scientists in these professional fields have long made important c o n t r i b u t i o n s . T h e y seek to learn the cause of disease, looking toward future p r e v e n t i o n ; the relationship of teeth to the body and h e a l t h ; and the s t a n d a r d s and supply of p h a r m a c e u tical ingredients. Gi it too I been the University's c o n t r i b u t i o n ! in architecture, mining, physics, ceramic!, and other engineering and scientific fields, t\n^\ likewise in government, history, literature, the humanih* .md the ai I
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