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 other 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 blue-print and photographic rooms. Below on
the ground floor are another classroom, the testing laboratories, the wood
shop, the metal shop, apparatus and storerooms, the toolroom, and the
students' 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 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
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 storeroom 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 smaller rooms for the work
of graduate students.
The new Chemical Laboratory will be opened for use in September,
1917. In this fire-proof structure all the work in Chemistry will be
assembled. The floor area provided will be about 30,000 square feet. The
lecture-rooms will seat classes of 300, 75 and 25 students. The laboratories
assigned to General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Qualitative Analysis,
Quantitative Analysis, and Physical Chemistry will contain 110, 60, 40, 30,
and 20 desks. Altogether by dividing classes into sections 600 students
may be accommodated. Smaller private laboratories will be provided for
research workers. Large stock rooms communicating by elevators with
the several floors will contain ample stores of chemical supplies. The
resources of the valuable Chemical Museum belonging to the University
will be for the first time adequately displayed. The 5,000 volumes of books
and bound sets of journals constituting the Department Library of Chemistry
will be so housed as to be accessible to both teachers and students.
