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Page 31 text:
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The Station bulletins contain infor- mation of inestimable value to the farmers of the State and are probably better known in the remote districts than they are in Lafayette. The department of Mechanical En- gineering, owing to intelligent man- agement and magnificent equipment, has enjoyed more than a national reputation. The locomotive labora- tory has been a prominent feature in this department, and the experiments performed have attracted the atten- tion of railroad-men in two continents. The new laboratory now being con- structed will contain, among other things, the most successful and com- plete machine ever constructed for testing the efficiency of brake-shoes. The same practical spirit pervades the other engineering departments, and in fact, the entire University. No professional man, in fact no American citizen is now consid- ered equipped for the duties which confront him without some knowledge of history, government, literature, and the modern lan- guages. The scientific world is now a unit, and for an easy inter- change of opinions and the results of scientific investigations, a knowl- edge of the modern European languages, particularly French and German, is indispensable. It is, too, the idea of Purdue and of all firstclass techni- cal schools that instruction along literary, economic and historical lines should be added to that which is strictly scientific. It has been the constant aim of Purdue to embody the essentials and the ideals of a firstclass technical school, and thus to attain to the highest de- gree of usefulness to the State and Nation. s i m } ••mksmifxjafam ai tt l l
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Department of Itlecbanical €ngineeriiid jHE first department to be established at Purdue, was that of Mechanical Engineering, and so marvelous has been its growth as a department that, to-day, there is no tech- nical school better equipped to apply a student ' s abil- it- to the solution of original problems along this line. Professor Goss, with an efficient corps of instructors, IS at the head of one of the best schools of its kind in ' America. The many steam cylinders, representing a ' large horse-power, together with the hydraulic and test- ing apparatus, is especially attractive to students taking a course in mechanical engineering. One of the most important features of this depart- mentis the newly mounted locomotive, Schenectady No. 2, which has replaced the one of last year. The solu- tion of problems attempted on the new plant, are those relating to the economics of high steam pressure, and to the application of the compound principals of loco- motive engineering. With these objects in view, the new locomotive has been designed in such a way that it may be readily converted from a single to a compound machine. Its boiler is capable of safely withstanding a working pressure of two hundred and fifty pounds. During the year a new Sterling boiler has been placed in the laboratory; this with the Babcock and Wilcox boilers makes the available boiler-power equal to two hundred and fifty horse-power. The future of this department is as bright as that of the University, and it is evident that nowhere could one look for a better example of completeness than is found in our Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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