Technical School and College Building; Being a Treatise on the Design and Construction of Applied Science and Art Buildings, and Their Suitable Fittings and Sanitation, with a Chapter on Technical Education (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...distinctly objects. He has so fitted up his new laboratory at University College, London, that each student is isolated as much as possible from his neighbour: a system which does not commend itself to me, and is nowhere else attempted, besides which the professor cannot thus have an uninterrupted view of the students in the entire laboratory as in the former case. At Bristol College the re-agent shelves are moveable. Professor Schmidt, of the Dresden Polytechnic, has his double benches made in three portions. The re-agent shelves (of which there are two besides the top) there form the central division, underneath which are arranged the pipes and wastes, and the benches on either side form the other two divisions. At the Finsbury College a novel plan has been adapted, the large illustration of which will be fully described further on. The re-agent bottles are placed under the "heating shelf" on a raised ledge down the centre of the begch (Plate 37). 2.--Draught-closets For General Use. Draught-closets are closets in which operations can be performed which give rise to the production of noxious fumes or gases. Some provision of this kind appears to have been made from the time of Liebig, the first teacher of chemistry; but the original closets were, in most cases, few in number and of large size, being mainly intended for large operations. Hofmann first introduced the small closet now so universally met with in chemical laboratories, and recommended by the South Kensington authorities. (a) Position of draught-closets. The position of the draught-closets intended for operations incidental to ordinary qualitative and quantitative analysis, indicated in the Owen's College, the Dundee,2 and the Yorkshire College plans may be regarded as typical. In bot...