Wagner Free Institute of Science - Engineering 1: The Materials of Engineering Construction

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This collection consists of glass lantern slides and syllabuses for the course “The Materials of Engineering Construction.” It was the first in a series of four courses in Civil Engineering, developed by Samuel Tobias Wagner and taught at the Wagner Free Institute of Science between1893 and 1950. The course discussed the properties, mining, and manufacturing of the various materials used in civil engineering, including stone, brick, cement, concrete, wood, iron, and steel. Of note in the collection are photographs of quarries and furnaces in Swedeland, PA and photos of the Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville, PA.
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Louisville Cement Works, Kilns at Speed Mills
Louisville Cement Works, Kilns at Speed Mills
Civil engineering--Materials, Cement plants, Cement kilns, Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.), Lantern slides
Glass lantern slide of the exterior of the kilns at Speed Mill, Louisville Cement Works. Reproduction of an image from the article "Bedford-Louisville Excursion: Notes on Bedford Stone, Louisville Cement and Other Things" in “Journal of the Western Society of Engineers,” Vol. 1, no. 5, October 1896. Text below the image reads: "Fig. 145. Louisville Cement Works. Kilns at Speed Mills." No label on slide. Used to illustrate the course "Materials of Engineering Construction" which was taught between 1893-1950.