 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
BUILDINGS.
The buildings devoted wholly or in part to the work of the Department
of Engineering are the following:
The Mechanical Laboratory is the main seat of the instruction in
technical studies. It is 180 by 70 feet and contains on the main floor
the Dean's office and the offices of the three adjunct-professors; the
main lecture room; the laboratory of electrical engineering; and the
drafting room for the First and Second Year students. Above are a
smaller drafting room for advanced students, and blueprint and photographic
rooms. Below on the ground floor are another class room,
the reading room, the testing laboratory, the wood shop, the metal
lavatory.
The Power House is a single-story building 110 by 40 feet. In
addition to the University boiler plant and the electric lighting plant
this contains the foundry and the forge room. The boiler plant consists
of two horizontal return-tubular boilers, each of 140 horse
power. The lighting plant consists of three electric generators directly
connected to high speed engines, the respective capacities being
25, 50, and 75 kilowatts. The whole plant is available for purposes of
instruction, study and experiment.
The Laboratory of General Chemistry, situated at the southern
end of West Range, is one of the older buildings recently remodelled
and fitted up for the work of instruction in undergraduate chemistry.
It is furnished with all the necessary apparatus and supplies, and is
comfortably heated and lighted. The Engineering students, who are
taught in a separate section, have three hours in lecture each week
and six hours in the laboratory. The work is specially adapted to
their needs.
The Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry is 150 by 60 feet. It is
a single-story building, containing the lecture room, the laboratory of
analytical chemistry, the rooms for assaying, the balance rooms, the
offices and private laboratories of the professors of Industrial and
Analytical Chemistry, and a number of store rooms. These contain
not only the usual laboratory supplies, but an extensive collection of
specimens, illustrating very completely the processes and products
of industrial chemistry, and of especial interest to engineering students.
The Geological Museum is 120 by 50 feet. It is a three-story
building. The main floor is devoted to the very extensive geological
collection of specimens, charts, relief maps, and so on. The gallery
above contains an equally good collection of minerals and numerous
models of typical crystallographic forms. The upper floor contains
the lecture rooms and the new laboratories of Economic Geology.
In the basement are stored subsidiary collections and new material
accumulated in more recent geological surveys.
The Physical Laboratory faces the Mechanical Laboratory on
the opposite side of the quadrangle, and has almost the same proportions.
The main floor contains the lecture room, the professors'
offices, the laboratory of experimental physics, and the store room for
the very large collection of apparatus used in the lectures. On the
ground floor is the laboratory of theoretical electricity, the storage
battery room, a well equipped shop for the repair and manufacture of
apparatus, and numerous smaller rooms for the work of graduate
students.
| The University of Virginia record February, 1909 | |