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SIBLEY COLLEGE. 301
BUILDINGS AND EaUIPMENT OF SIBLEY COLLEGE.
The buildings of Sibley College occupy a ground enclosed between
East and Central Avenues, at the north end of the Campus, leased
from the University for the purposes of the College, under an agree
ment with the late Hiram Sibley.
The two main buildings of the Sibley College are each one hun
dred and sixty feet long, fifty feet in width, and three stories in height.
They contain museums, the reading-room, drawing-rooms, large and
well-lighted lecture-rooms, and the rooms of the different professors.
The workshops are placed in separate buildings and consist of a ma
chine shop, a foundry, a blacksmith shop, and a wood-working shop.
and include rooms devoted to the storage of tools. Besides these
there is an additional building, one hundred and fifty feet by forty in
dimensions, and two stories in height, occupied by the laboratories of
the department of experimental engineering. At the bottom of Fall
Creek Gorge is the house protecting the turbines which supply the
power ordinarily required for driving the machinery of the College,
and the electric apparatus for lighting the campus and the buildings,
and, near it, a steam pumping station used as a reserve when the
power of the hydraulic station is unequal to the demand for water
supply. The large engine and dynamo room, containing all the en
gines and dynamos employed in lighting the University, is adjacent
to the shops, and beside the boiler-room in which are placed
the 200 H. P. boilers furnishing steam to these and the experimental
engines.
The Collections of Sibley College are of exceptional extent,
value, and interest. The principal room on the first floor of one build
ing is devoted to the purposes of a museum of illustrative apparatus,
machinery, products of manufacturing, and collections exhibiting pro
cesses and methods, new inventions, forms of motors and other collec
tions of value in the courses of technical instruction. In this museum
is placed a large Reuleaux collection of models of kinematic move
ments. Besides these are the Schroeder and other models, exhibiting
parts of machinery, the construction of steam engines and other ma
chines, and a large number of samples of machines constructed to
illustrate special forms and methods of manufacture. of Many these
machines and tools have been made in the University shops. The
lecture rooms of Sibley College, each being devoted to a specified line
of instruction and list of subjects, are each supplied with a collection
of materials, drawings, models, and machines, especially adapted to
the wants of the lecturer. The course of instruction in mechanical