Caption: Book - First Years of Engineering Experiment Station (1906)
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6 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. grades ILLINOIS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION Strength of compound (flitched) steel and wooden beams; S t r e n g t h of built-up wooden girders; Syphonage of t r a p s and its prevention; Collection of best plans for small country schools; Collection of best plans for farm houses and buildings. B Y T H E D E P A R T M E N T OF CIVIL E N G I N E E R I N G Tests of road-building materials; Tests of angles riveted by one leg; Effects of punching, reaming and boring upon different of steel. B Y T H E D E P A R T M E N T OF ELECTRICAL E N G I N E E R I N G 1. Advantageous rates of acceleration for passenger and freight service; 2. Loss from braking, and its partial recovery by raising the level of regular stopping points; 3. Increased tractive effort due to winds in various directions; 4. Possible utility of some form of transmission or speedchanging ratio between motor and car for overcoming grades; 5. Economical lighting of large halls; 6. Determination of t h e minimum candle-feet required for comfortable reading with lamps of different color values; 7. Methods for increasing t h e time efficiency of long distance lines. B Y T H E D E P A R T M E N T OF MECHANICAL E N G I N E E R I N G 1. 2. 3. 4. ing; 5. 6. 7. Experiments with high-speed tool steels (continued); Boiler trials with Illinois coals (continued); Transfer of heat t h r o u g h scaled boiler tubes; Comparative economy of domestic coals for residence heatT h e economy of municipal power and pumping plants; Experiments with superheated steam; Experiments with gas producers. BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS 1. Resistance of boiler flues to collapse; 2. Heat conductivity of walls of buildings; 3. Appliances for measuring high temperatures under furnace conditions;
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