Calendar: 1890-1891 Page 185

ENGINEERING 181 Twisting moment in crank-shafts Screw propellers Resistance of Ships Other special subjects will be taken up to suit the require- ments of students Occasional visits to works of Engineering interest in the neighbourhood of London will be arranged on Wednesday afternoons throughout the session Experimental courses with the testing-machine &c in strength of materials rigidity of structures friction &c will be arranged for second and third year students Wednesday afternoons and Thursday afternoons from to will be devoted to these experiments The value of such experimental training can scarcely be over estimated for those who in after years may in the work- shop or factory frequently be called upon to supply experi- mental data for themselves Civil Engineering First Year Lecture Room from 15 to every Friday and Field Work at 10 every alternate Saturday during the Academical Year The subjects dealt with in the First Year are The Appli- cation of Practical Geometry to the purposes of Surveyor and Engineer Standards of Length Scales Areas Division of Land Equalizing Fences Geometrically the Chain and Offset Staff Surveying by Chain Chain Angles Base Lines Field Book Surveying Symbols Continuing and Measuring Base Lines when Obstructed Ascertaining Dis- tances to Inaccessible Objects Erecting Perpendiculars with the Chain Classification of Surveys Practical Difficulties in Surveying Traverse Surveying Cross Optical Square Prismatic Compass Circumferentor Theodolite and Adjust- ments Level and Adjustments Level Staff Box Sextant