Last week, we learned about smelting ore into base metals for the purpose of building technology, including the many devices that we rely on every day. This week, we’ll take a closer look at the automation side of underground metal mines. Machines, railways, hoists, and ore carts on tracks are...
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Echinacea or Rudbeckia? That Is The Question!
While walking around campus the other day, we came across these beautiful yellow flowers. It was a lovely day, and we thought “What a perfect flower for this weeks Flowery Friday.” Then the trouble began…
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Welcome to Special Collections!
Special Collections display
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Smelting
Mining Monday
![Mining photo [5]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/83_47_9_1_th.jpg)
Last week, we learned about milling mineral ore. This week, we’ll look at what happens after minerals have been milled.
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Wonderful Watercolors
![Watercolor paintings of flowers [1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/mg5023_watercolors-1_th.jpg)
These mostly unidentified Flowery Friday watercolors were painted by former University of Idaho Faculty Sara Annette Bowman. Bowman served as Professor of Drawing (later Free Hand and Industrial Drawing) from some of the earliest days for the University. Starting in 1893, she taught drawing along with other art media until...
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Inside the Cover: Hetch Hetchy Valley
Our current exhibit, A Book’s Nature: Artist Books by Peter and Donna Thomas, has incredible works of art on display. Unfortunately, such a display only allows for one or two pages of most books to be seen. Throughout the run of the exhibit, we will post some pictures from inside...
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Milling
Mining Monday
Last week, we learned about extracting raw mineral ore. This week, we’ll learn about the process of milling, which is the first of two steps required to take raw mineral ore and turn it into a usable product (the second of which is smelting, which we’ll explore next week!)
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Tropical Plants and Where to Find Them
For this Flowery Friday we were flipping through L. Bruggeman’s Tropical Plants and Their Cultivation. There were so many beautiful plates of flowers to choose, but Hymenocallis littoralis kept catching our attention.
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Fraternity Recruitment
![Rush week at Beta Theta Pi house [02]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/pg2/pg2247.jpg)
Rush week at Beta Theta Pi house [02]
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the biggest fish I ever caught...
Happy #TroutTuesday! The Idaho state fish is the Cutthroat trout and there’s still plenty of season left to hit the water and catch some BIG fish!
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