Joliet Central High School - Steelmen Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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THE JOLLIER — the laboratory, the recitation room, and lectvn e room, (the latter two similarly equipped). In the laboratory are four student tables, each accommodating- eight. The tables are of oak, and are covered with glass plates and rubber pads. A pneumatic trough, lockers for personal apparatus, hoods, gas, water, electricity, and other usual con- veniences, are furnished here. The botany laboratory is 25 x 40 feet and has six tables, five op- posite to west windows. Storage rooms, acquaria for plants, and microscopes are found in addition to rhe ordinary fixtures. The reci- tation room is the same as those befo-e described. On the third floor at the head of the main stairway, ther e is a well-chosen reference library, containing about 5000 volumes. Here are five tables seating six persons at each, and a general reading table, where the latest fiction, school magazines, etc., are kept. The High School museum adds to the attractiveness of the school as well as figures prominently in the study of Zoology and Botany. In the museum are found a very extensive and complete collection of ail kinds of curios and specimens. Two metho-ls of heating are employed, steam and hot air. .-V fan, run by a steam engine, furnishes fresh air, and disposes of the impure. In one day, during the coldest part of the winter, fourteen tons of coal were used to heat the building. The finest work of art in the scliool, are the mural ])aintings presented by the class of 1905. They are six in number, and the first are to be seen at the main entrance, and the others on the main floor, at the head of tlie stairway. The pictiuxs represent the journev of Juliet and larquette. Pictures and statuary of all sorts, are placed in the building, among them a life size statue of A ' ash- ington, and a large reproduction of the Spirit of Scz ' cnfy-six. All the pictures and statuary about tlie building have lieen the presents of graduating classes. Page Twenty-two

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THE JOLLIER The physiog-raphy laboratory is t venty-fi e by forty feet, has six tables, each of which accommodates eight students. A demonstra- tion table also, at which there are gas, water, electric current, steam,- compressed air, steel standards, etc., is a feature. Globes, maps, and other necessary equipment for the studv of physio-graphy are supplied. Four rooms are gi -en up to the study of physics, with which most students have a broad experience. The usual demonstration table with gas, water, steam, electricity, compressed air, fifteen lockers and two key-boards for student use, is found. The entire equip- ment, features of which are the seconds ' clock, arc light, motor, dynamo, etc., is too large a subject for com- plete discussion. Let it be said here that the total equipment along such lines, is valued at $17,000. The phvsics ' recitation room has a demonstration table and thirty lecture chairs, and the lecture room the same, only it is fitted with a lant- ern and more convenient means of darkening. This room seats one hundred. Idle dynamo room contains a dynamo-motor, benches, tables, shelves, etc. The most important thing is the transformer. It recei ' es a current of 500 volts and de- livers it in outputs of 1:35 to 200 volts, in direct or al- WASHINGTON STATUE Three rooms are used in the sludv of chemistr - : Page Twentvone

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