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282 COLLEGE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING.
makers, reading to single seconds ; sextants, astronomical clocks,
chronographs, a Negus chronometer, two equatorials the larger
having an objective, by Alvan Clark, four and a half inches in diam
eter, two large zenith telescopes of improved construction for latitude
work, by the eye and photographic methods ; spherometers and other
instruments, like pier collimators, etc., necessary to complete the most
efficient equipment of a training observatory, io. A geodesic collec
tion, consisting of a four meter comparator of original design, built at
this college of the University, and believed to be the most accurate in
strument of precision in existence for the determination of cofficients
of expansion ; a set of improved pendulums for gravimetric investiga
tions ; a secondary base line apparatus made under the direction of
the Coast Survey ; two new base line bars designed and constructed
in the laboratories of this college, and all the portable astronomical
and field instruments needed for extensive triangulations, including
sounding machines, tachometers, water deep thermometers and helio
tropes, n. Among the usual field instruments, there is nearly every
variety
of engineers'
transits, theodolites, levels,
solar and other com
passes, omnimeters and tachometers, with a large number of special
instruments, such as planimeters, pantographs, eliptographs, arith
mometers, computing machines, altazimuths, sextants, telemeters and
altmeters, hypsometers, and meteorological self-recording instruments
of all descriptions. 12. A complete set very of all appliances and in
struments for making reconnaissance in topographical, hydrographical
and mining surveys, in addition to the instrumental equipment which
is common to the museums and the twelve engineering laboratories
of this College, as described above.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.
The following subjects are required for admission : English, Phys
iology and Hygiene, History, [the student must offer two of the four
following divisions in History : (a) American, (b) English, (c) Gre
cian, (d) Roman,] Plane Geometry, Elementary Algebra.
In addition to the above primary entrance subjects, the applicant
must offer as below :
1. In Solid Geometry, Advanced Algebra,
Spherical Trigonometry,
American and English text-books. See page 46.
and in Plane and
as much as is contained in the standard
2. In Advanced French or Advanced German (French pre
ferred),
as given on pages 38 and 39.