Identifier: universityofpenn01nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he Campusand the best equipped building of its kind. The heating is bydirect steam, the ventilation by electrically driven fans,and the lighting by electricity. There are two prin-cipal entrances leading to the main hallway, which extends eastand west the entire length of the building to staircases at bothextremities. Large light-wells terminate in skylights over themain floor. The basement contains locker-rooms, lavatories, ma-chinery for heating and ventilating, storage battery rooms, lab-oratories for geodetic and hydraulic work, and for the testingof the materials of construction. On the first floor, adjacent tothe main entrance, are the offices of the heads of departments.Accommodation is also provided for physical and hydraulic test-ing, instrument testing and for special work in mechanical andelectrical engineering. Rooms are likewise set aside for dynamosand electric motors, steam and gas engines, refrigerating ap-paratus, hydraulic motors, boiler testing, pattern making, wood
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112 and iron working, foundry and machine shops, etc. On thesecond floor is a reference library and reading room, a studentsassembly room, rooms for use of instructors and for lecturesand recitations. The rear portion of this floor is devoted almostwholly to drawing rooms. A room for the use of the engineer-ing societies, a general supply store, and the library stack occupythe middle portion. In the east and west wings ample space isassigned to the engineering museums, while the rear of thisfloor is set aside exclusively for additional drawing rooms,which, like those just.beneath, have the full advantage of a northlight. MEMORIALS IN THE ENGINEERING BUILDING In a laboratory room on the first floor of the east end of thebuilding is a bronze tablet inscribed: LESLEY CEMENT LABORATORY. Equipped by Robert W. Lesley, Esq. Class of 71. College. In recognition of the growing- needs of a great industry. On the walls of its meeting room in the east end of thebuilding there is a bronze tablet i

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