264 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

neering, in conjunction with the Department of Geology of the College of
Letters and Science, takes up the specialized work which follows the thor-
ough fundamental training which is the first essential of a successful engi-
neer.

The location of a technical school at a great university has many ad-
vantages which cannot be duplicated. It has all the resources of personnel
and equipment for instruction and research; it has the advantages of access
to great libraries and laboratories, all of which offer facilities that only a
great university can maintain. It has the advantages of cooperation with
strong independent departments in geology, chemistry, physics, mathemat-
ics, mechanics, civil, electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering, Eng-
lish, foreign languages, commerce, economics and various other subjects
which are of vital importance to the mining engineer. The University of
Wisconsin is fortunate in the possession of exceptional facilities in all of
these lines. As a result, the Department of Mining and Metallurgy is en-
abled to concentrate all of its efforts on and to specialize in its particular
fields, and outlines and directs the work of its students in allied subjects.
The contact of the mining student with the larger and broader interests at a
university enlarges his outlook on life in general.

EQUIPMENT

The mining and metallurgical laboratory is fireproof and contains about
twelve thousand square feet of laboratory floor space. The basement con-
tains the crushing and screening room, ore bins, supply room, and ceramic
laboratory. The metallurgical laboratory occupies the north end of the first
floor while the ore-dressing laboratory includes both floors at the opposite
end. Three offices and lavatory with lockers and showers are provided.
The fire assay laboratory, chemical laboratory, balance room, metallographic
room, dark room, process testing laboratory, are temporarily located in the
Chemistry building.

The fire assay equipment consists of one triple muffel western coal fur-
nace, crucible coke furnaces, and various gas and oil-fired assay furnaces.

The metallurgical laboratory is equipped with an oil-fired stationary
hearth reverberatory furnace, an oil-fired roasting furnace, an oil-fired tilt-
ing reverberatory furnace, a copper, and lead blast furnace, a gas-fired tilt-
ing copper reverberatory furnace, various electric- and gas-fired furnaces,
pyrometers, and furnace accessories. Metallographic miscroscopes and
grinding and polishing apparatus for the examination of metals, minerals,
and metallurgical products are provided.

Special electric furnaces and pyrometer equipment are available for
similar work in iron and steel and other metallurgical research of advanced
nature.

Equipment for advanced research along various hydrometallurgical

lines is provided.

The crushing room contains laboratory crushers for fine crushing, of
the jaw and gyratory type, disc, and ball grinders and rolls. The ore bins
are conveniently located for crushing tests by the laboratory size crushers.

Dry screening is done by hand, by shaking screens, and by the trommel
screens in the ore-dressing laboratory.

The ore-dressing laboratory occupies both floors at the south end of the
building. It contains a large jaw-type crusher, a large set of rolls, bucket
elevators, trommel screens, jigs of the Woodbury, Harz, and Richards pul-