Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

Title:
Foundry

Date:
1893

Content:
Engraving of Foundry on p. [29] of the Annual Catalogue of the Georgia School of Technology, Announcement for 1892-93.

History:
On April 21, 1892, the Shop Building, one of the two original buildings erected in 1888, was destroyed by fire. The 1892-93 Announcement noted: These [workshops] have been rebuilt in better form and re-equipped with superior tools and machinery." The Shop Building was rebuilt according to the old plan, even to the reuse of the old brick walls, by contractor F.P. Heifner for $11,886. The 1892-93 Announcment notes that " the second or Junior year is spent in the iron room. During this year the time devoted to practice is one day of nine hours per week during term time, and an additional two hundred hours which must be made up before the beginning of the next year. Squads of students are daily detailed to the foundry, where they receive practice in moulding and in pouring iron and brass throughout this and the following year." The Foundry Shed in the new building was physically detached from the Shop Building to prevent a recurrence of the fire that destroyed the original building. The forge was also physically detached.