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The Chemical Building at Lehigh University, now called Chandler Hall, was completed in 1884 at the cost of over $200,000, which was supplied by Asa Packer. It was "devoted to the chemical, mineralogical and metallurgical departments. This structure is built of sandstone and is thoroughly fireproof. It is two hundred and nineteen feet in length, by forty-four feet in width, with a wing ninety-five feet by fifty feet, devoted to the departments of mineralogy and metallurgy. The basement and two principal stories extend throughout the whole, with a third story in the central section. The upper floor is occupied by the quantitative and the qualitative chemical laboratories, the former accommodating forty-eight and the latter eighty-four students. These rooms are twenty feet in height and are well lighted and ventilated. A laboratory for industrial chemistry and the supply room are also on this floor. The first floor contains a large lecture room, a recitation room, a chemical museum and laboratories for organic, physiological, agricultural and sanitary chemistry. In the basement is the large laboratory for the furnace assays of ores and a well appointed laboratory for gas analysis, also rooms containing the apparatus for various processes in industrial chemistry, and an engine and air-pump for vacuum filtration. A photographic laboratory is located in the third story of the central portion of the building. The metallurgical laboratory contains a lecture room, a blowpipe laboratory for class instruction in blowpipe analysis and in the practical determination of crystals and minerals, a museum for mineralogical and metallurgical collection, a mineralogical laboratory provided with a Fuess reflecting goniometer, a polarscope, a Groth's "universal apparat" and a Rosenbusch polarizing microscope, a dry laboratory provided with furnaces for solid fuel and for gas with natural draught and with blast, and a wet laboratory for ordinary analytical work. It is arranged for the instruction of classes in the courses of Mineralogy, Metallurgy and Blowpipe Analysis of the regular curriculum, and to afford facilities to a limited number of advanced students for familiarizing themselves with the methods of measurement and research employed in mineralogy and metallurgy, and for conducting original investigations in these departments of science." Edmund M. Hyde, The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch, 1896. |
| Date | before 1896 |
| Source | The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch, by Edmund M. Hyde, 1896. |
| Author | Unknown author |
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