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Caption: Book - First Years of Engineering Experiment Station (1906)
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ILLINOIS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION 5 department is also investigating the subject of measurement of high temperatures, such as are found in boiler and other furnaces used in industrial works. Both recording and optical pyrometers are being studied. IV. C H A R A C T E R O F T H E W O R K TO B E U N D E R T A K E N In determining the character of the work which the station shall undertake, the most careful consideration will be given to the needs and the interests of the state. At t h e same time we shall not forget the debt which Illinois owes to her older sister states or to foreign nations for furnishing freely the results of scientific investigations or experimental determinations, making it possible for Illinois more cheaply to construct its railroads, mine its coal, generate its power, harvest its crops, communicate with its neighbors, and build its factories, its public buildings and its homes. . The work of the station will also be largely determined by the funds and facilities which are available for its work. I t will seek the cooperation of all the industrial enterprises of the state, both great and small, and it will give help along those lines t h a t promise to aid the greatest number of its people. T h e work of the station should also extend into some fresh fields, seeking to discover new ways and means for economizing energy and materials, for the prevention of waste, for the perfection of labor-saving machinery, for safer methods of travel, and for surer sanitary methods of water supply and sewage disposal. As an indication of the character of the work which it is proposed to do, the following short titles are given of some of the most important investigations which have been submitted for the approval of the station staff. BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE 1. Insulating walls and materials to prevent transmission of sound, heat, dampness, etc.; 2. Resistance of hollow concrete building blocks to transmission of heat, sound, dampness, etc.; 3. Transmission of heat, light and sound through several thicknesses of glass in windows; 4. Comparative strength of wooden beams in tension, spliced in various ways;
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