Armour Research Foundation Woodworking Laboratory
1913 (demolished 1956)
3315 South Dearborn Street
This laboratory housed refrigeration research for almost thirty years before becoming the institute's Combustion Laboratory in 1940. After a few years, the lab was used for woodworking, and it remained dedicated to this purpose until it was demolished prior to the construction of Siegel Hall in 1956.
Formerly/Also Known As: Refrigeration Laboratory (1913-1940), Combustion Research Laboratory (1940-1943), Pattern Shop (1943), Wood Technology Building (1945), Armour Research Foundation Laboratory (ca. 1948), Ice Lab
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Refrigeration Laboratory: Armour Institute of Technology, Bulletin of the Armour Institute of Technology XXIX, no. 1 (May, 1935), 142.
Combustion Research Laboratory: Armour Institute of Technology, Bulletin of the Armour Institute of Technology XXIV, no. 2 (May, 1940), back cover.
ARF Laboratory: Illinois Institute of Technology, Technology Center Today and Tomorrow (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1948).
Wood Technology Building: Illinois Institute of Technology. Graduate School Bulletin (1945-46).
ARF Woodworking Laboratory: Illinois Institute of Technology, Bulletin Illinois Institute of Technology March 1955 (1955), 3.
Ice Lab: Godwin, Francis W, "35 West 33rd Street," Armour Engineer and Alumnus 6, no. 3. 1941, 9.
Dates:
Illinois Institute of Technology, Technology Center Today and Tomorrow.
"Navy Man Inspects Foundation’s Labs," Armour Tech News, February 7, 1939, 4.
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