 | The University of Virginia record February 1, 1918 |  |
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,
of apparatus, and smaller rooms for the work of graduate students.
The new Chemical Laboratory was opened for use in September, 1917.
In this fire-proof structure all the work in Chemistry is assembled. The floor
area provided is about 30,000 square feet. The lecture-rooms seat classes of
300, 75 and 25 students. The laboratories assigned to General Chemistry,
Organic Chemistry, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, and Physical
Chemistry contain 110, 60, 40, 30, and 20 desks. Altogether by dividing classes
into sections, 600 students may be accommodated. Smaller private laboratories
are provided for research workers. Large stock rooms communicating by
elevators with the several floors contain ample stores of chemical supplies.
The 5,000 volumes of books and bound sets of journals constituting the Departmental
Library of Chemistry are so housed as to be accessible to both
teachers and students.
| The University of Virginia record February 1, 1918 | |