The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16
Manifold Resources of the Agri-
cultural College.
is THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED
A Sketch of the Engineering Department
by Professor Williams-Bozeman
Suffered Severely During
the Cold Weather.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

college IN the way or educational iacil-
! tiles and the great good it is doing for
the rising generation Of Montanans.
Many people think that an agricultural
| college is simply school for farmers.
| 1t is, but it teaches mechanical arts, in
| fact, all the arts and sciences of a mod
| ern college; and this grand state insti-
tuition is a place where all classes of
people of whatever kind or condition, or
whichever sex, having in view pro-
| fessional or any other future, can find
ample means for their educational
wants. The following is a very inter
esting sketch of the engineering work
at the college, furnished by Professor
| Williams of the engineering depart
| ment:
Probably few citizens of Montana re-
alize what is being done for en-
| sineerng education in the various state
| educational institutions. Take as an
| example the state technical school at
| Bozeman--ttle Montana State college
! This institution now offers four-year
| courses in both mechanical and electric
al engineering, which will be found by
| comparison to be practically equivalent
| to similar courses offered in Eastern
| universities; and what is more, has the
| equipment with which to make these
| courses what they really purport to be.
Modern educational methods demand
| extensive laboratories for instruction
| and research; and, thanks to the gen.
erosity OF the federal government, this
| college has been well provided with
| funds for the purchase of such equip
ment, and now has well-equipped chem
zeal, physical, biological and engineer
| ing laboratories and shops. In every
| department of instruction theory and
| practice are closely linked. Students
listen to lectures in physics, dlemis-
| try, biology or engineering in the morn
| ing, and in the afternoon go into the
| respective labora tories for practical in
struction along the lines of the previous
| theoretical work. And it is not boasting
| to say that these laboratories are fully
| equal in quality and character Of ap-
| paratus to similar ones provided for
| undergraduate work in any Eastern
i universities. The engineering labora-
| tory and shops, for example, now pre-
sent an expenditure, inclusive of build
| ings, of $4,000.
A brief outline of the engineering
| equipment and practical work. may be
| interesting. In addition to- the mathe-
| matics, chemistry, language and his
| tory of the freshman year, eight hours
| per week are spent in shop practice in
| woodwork, the first half of the year on
! carpentry, for which provision has been
made for rs students, each one having
his own set of tools, for which he is
| held responsible. The last half of the
| year is devoted to wood turning and
| pattern making, in which 16 students
can be accommodated The freshman
also spends six hours per week in the
| chemical laboratory. TIE shop practice
| for the first half of the sophomore year
| iS fN1,Er I'll no rl,N ;f,,
ped with 10 draft FORCES, and all
necessary tools for each including pow
| er blower and exhauster; and at the
| present time these are all in use three
afternoons per week. The last half Of
| this years shop practice is devoted to
chipping and filing and lathe work.
Besides the shop work, the student
| spends four hours per week in the ply
steal laboratory, and in the spring term
has additional work in the chemical la
| boratory. The junior year shop practice
| Is devoted to lathe, drill, planer and
| milling machine work, including work
in cast iron. wrought iron, gear cut
| ting, etc. THE senior years work is the
| construction and erection of some COM
| plete machine called the senior model"
The equipment for machine work con-
sists of five engine lathes. a planer an
universal milling machine, a shaper,
| three drills, a tool grinder. a small uni
| versal grinding machine and shop saw
| all of the latest designs. The shop
| building is lighted with electricity from
a dynamo driven from the head shaft;
| and has in it also an office, tool room.
toilet and locker room and boiler room.
The studies of the junior and senior
years are all strictly technical subjects.
| some of which are common to both the
| mechanical and electrical courses. tho
| others relating to but one course. For
| laboratory work in connection there
| with there is provided a laboratory of
| experimental engineering. This Gccu-
| pies a building 33X51 feet and two sto-
ries high, which is now half filled with
| valuable machinery.
The character and extent of this la
| boratory work may be judged from the
| following: For work in steam engineer
| ing there is an So horse power oiler
| with full outfit of scales, tanks, steam
cages, draft cages, calormeters. etc,
| for boiler trials; four steam engines
one of 10, one of 40, one of 60 horse row.
err and threshing engine, three in
Dictator sets, speed counters, tachOmet-
| ers, cages, calorimeters and brakes. for
engine trials. The 40 H. p. engine is es-
| pecially designed for experimental
| work, and can he used with live or
exhaust steam jacket, or unjacketed.
| For work on the strength of materials
|
| araIilic testing machine of 0,000
| pounds capacity, and an Olsen torsion
| testing machine having a capacity of
| $4,000 inch pounds, and capable of tax
! ing a specimen 11a inches by five feet
| This Reihle machine is a fine one. and
| is the only one of that size owned by
! any educational institution west of the
Mississippi. 1t will break steel bars as
! large as one inch in diameter, and
| traces its own stress-strain diagram.
For work in electricity, there are a
| X. w. bipolar dynamo, two specially
designed multipolar dynamos of Is x
| w. each, so arranged as to give direct
or one, two and three phase alternating
currents: an arc lighting dynamo and
outfit of typical arc lamps; and good
| ly number of measuring instruments,
such as ammetens, volunteers and watt
| meters. This equipment will be liher-
ally increased the coming year. For the
more refined electrical measurements,
the physical laboratory has a good
| equipment of electrical test instru-