The editor of this department had intended to publish a lis£ of
the\sem or theses'. from the laboratory departments of the JJniyer-
' $ity¿í together with a'Tew w ords'ds to* the? scope o f éach, but fhis
was found to be impracticable-in the’p resen t status, affairs,. s ^ e ^
of th e,$ iesex being af present largMy incomplete ivith the, final re-
f/i suits and conclusd^is in doubt.
IN D U ST R IA L E L E C T R IC IT Y
I I'herp are two nontechnical practical courses- ’given in the de
partm ent of Electrical and M echanicaf Enginéering; sup p lem en tary
to each other,,and valuable to, any man in the .E ü i v é r ^ í ^ h o desires
a broad and well rounded education. The first i^fi thrfeé hour course
in Prime Movers, tlie second a like course in Industrial Electricity.
For givingda general knowledge of some' of the more important
phase's |K modern life thes¿$ourges are unsurpassed by any courses
pf etjual length in the University.
There is a considerable amount of ía'póratory as well as'.cl&ss*-
room; work in each cottrsfe^ In tfieffirSt semester the -steam engine,.'
steam turbines, boiler's; gas-engine® and gas p r o d w f e ^ r e studied.
The student learfts «ómething of the principles..governing th|/X Sn^
struction; selectio n ,'¿¿¿ratio n 'an d xepairfof such machinery. , In,
the laboratory hc'learns to I Operate an ordinary’steaffi engine, to tes,t
its efficiency‘S y-m enns.of brakes <£nd indicator diagrams, and also
■ when i is used to drive éleCtnc' g e n e r a te ^ H e uSes a planime'ter
?."to integrate the indicator diagram, he’test^ and-calibrates th e ^ e a m
guage and write-s^iip the records of his experiments,
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In the second Semester a gefaeral'vifew of modern electrical
machinery is gained together w ith '^ o ie knowledge of its underlying