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The 1867 Catalogue of the Illinois Industrial University listed Mechanical Science and Art in the Polytechnic Department.
On September 1, 1940, the Department of Railway Engineering was discontinued and some of its courses and faculty were transferred to the Mechanical Engineering Department.
1. Catalogue and Circular, 1867, p. 6.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 3rd Report, March 8, 1870, p. 47.
3. Ibid., 40th Report, June 28, 1940, p. 971
4. Ibid., 46th Report, March 12, 1952, pp. 1410-11
5. Ibid., 50th Report, April 20, 1960, p. 1257.
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Experiments in Strength of Materials, including graphs, drawings, written descriptions of procedures, photographs of testing apparatus, and computations of results from materials testing conducted by students in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Illinois Industrial University in Fall 1876 on the strength and resistance of beams made of different woods and metals.