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The 1867 Report of the University Committee on Courses of Study and Faculty for the Illinois Industrial University listed a "Professorship of Analytical and Practical Mechanics" among the more important chairs of instruction and assigned courses in mechanics to the Polytechnic Department.
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 1st Report, 1867-68, pp. 50, 62.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 3rd Report, March 8, 1870, p. 47.
3. Catalogs and Registers, 1892-93, p. 45; Board of Trustees Transactions, 18th Report, February 13, 1895, p. 70.
4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 34th Report, July 7, 1926, p. 3.
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September 1963
Chronological
Rails investigation file including correspondence and reports of Prof. Herbert F. Moore with Committee IV of the American Railway Engineering Association, Association of American Railroads; steel rail manufacturers and railroad engineering departments about transverse fissures of railroad rails, fatigue tests of rail steel , mathematical analyses of stresses, field tests, shipment of rails, development and use of testing machines, measuring rail strains, descriptions of types of tests, broken rails received for testing, magnetic detection, specifications for rails, steel treating processes, publications, financial records, staffing, quarterly reports and related topics. As a research professor of engineering materials, Moore began his investigations under a contract with the Northern Illinois Utilities Research Commission. Prof. Howard R. Thomas assisted Moore and Prof. Arthur N. Talbot investigated stresses in railroad track. The file includes minutes of the meetings of the sponsoring Committee IV of the American Railway Engineering Association.