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A Building for the DErAKTMENT of Practical Mechanics 

 AT Purdue University. 



By M. J. Golden. 



The building was designed lor the purpose of providing laboratories in 

 w'lich to teach students of engineering, shop practice and mechanical 

 drawing, and is meant to accommodate three hundred students in the shops 

 and three hundred students in the drawing rooms at one time. The me- 

 chanical drawing taught is the usual elementary drawing that precedes 

 engineering design, and includes descriptive geometry. The shop practice 

 includes manual training and practice in the methods employed in manii- 

 facturmg where special tools and labor saving devices are used ; this in- 

 volving arrangements in the shops for demonstratiori work before groups 

 of students. 



The princiiial conditions necessary for tlie proper carrying on of such 



Fig. 1. 

 work are ani])lc liglit, prdjior ventilation, and careful regulation of the 

 temperature. 



The building is of comnKui hi'ick with stone Irlunuing and the design 

 was purposely made to be as simple as possible, as befits a structure for 

 mch purxjose. The general appearance is shown in Fig. 1, 



