Show MAKE ADDITIONS i TO LABORATORIES LABORA TORIES I J L Mechanical and Steam Engineering Engin Engin- r eeling Departments Have 0 Improvements f J IS BOON TO ENTIRE STATE New v Machinery Installed tl CI Mot Most ro t Complete Laboratories Labora t. t to I 4 tories In lit This Region j t I I tl- tl 1 Both the mechanical I laboratory and anti 1 x e steam leam engineering laboratory at 4 tho lie university un have e been greatly In Inci Increased In- In ct creased during the thc past week weel In tho the 1 L. L mechanical laboratory there Is being c Installed a pound UI HI Olson Olen tent tension ten ten- t 0 sion and compression testing machine o al alvo alo o a large machine for fot testing the lubricating value of oils and the friction fric fric- tin tion of journals tension and compression machine has been eagerly eager cager- b ly 13 awaited b by the men who arc aro doing theses thes 1 work In steel concrete work With it the they will wilt be able ablo to reach I f definite and complete conclusions as asto J ll to the respective strengths and value of of plain and corrugated steel This laboratory which Is used for fot the testIng testing test test- ing litS' of oC materials of ot engineering aH al already already al- al H ready contains besides the new apparatus apparatus appa appa- ratus lar large e machines for or torsion tension ten ten- slon sion transverse and cement testing In the tho steam engineering laboratory there has recent recently been a added ded a hydraulic hy 11 mine pump which Is usually use used for Cor or pumping water out of oC deep deeps s mines a vertical steam engine which r t drives a large Jarge fan blower the power that tho fan an receives bein being measured b of or Webber transmission 1 4 by means a dynamometer dIU which has recently been hn Installed In addition to this machinery machine ry Iy and in conjunction with It there thero has been erected a surface condenser l and vacuum pump for 01 determining 7 the quantity of steam that the lie engines carry The addition of the these c machines 4 gives the thc er university It the tho most completo f- f laboratories in both hoth mechanical anti and t c steam work in the mountain Inter-mountain re reI re- re I glon gion As the laboratories are always open to the public and ami to those especially especially es CJ- es- es t wh who vhO are arc anxious to do experimental ex ex- work worl along these lines f It ItIs t. t Is Js a great boon to the thc entire state b |