Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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THB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 13 for this group was done by two of our professors, Messrs. Temple and McLean. The steam laboratory is full of steam engines of every character and design. Here is one of our own make, and is especially interesting, for it is the first steam engine ever made in an educational institution. Several of these were made by students in regular work. Here is an air compressor, and Professor Breckenridge has led a pipe to the open air at several points so the boys can hitch on their bicycles and have the tire blown up without the hard labor which he would have them keep for other things. These engines and dynamos within the immaculate brass rail supply the light* on the campus and in all the buildings. LABORATORY. Out here, in the front, upstairs and down, are the electrical laboratories, and one who is up in such things may study dynamos, and motors, and converters, and transformers, and storage batteries, and switch-boards to his heart's content. Some years ago before our equipment approached its present stage a bright, recent graduate of one of the two or three foremost eastern technical schools came to me with a letter from the Governor of the State asking me to afford him the facilities for doing an intricate piece of electrical work. 1 helped him, but felt the necessity of apologizing for our equipment as compared with what he had been accustomed to. In a weed; he had his work done and came in to thank me. As 1 again expressed fear that we might not have such equipment as he had worked with he said, " Oh, you have no apologies to make ; you have enough sight bettor equipment than they h a v e . " SHOPS. This long building over here contains the metal shops. This is the smith shop. This is the foundry; if we could happen in here on a Friday morning we should s • the < boys "pour oil'." This is the machine shop, where we shall find some as i nitiful piece! « f mechanism as vou
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