Word: aparatus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make passengers feel at home, there will be steam heating, air conditioning, running water, electric cooking aparatus. A dictaphone will be supplied to the executive who cannot waste time while traveling at 240 m.p.h...
...struck the hours ever since the clock was installed in the tower just after the Civil War, the entire mechanism of the regulator clock, which is suspended 60 odd feet above the platform, was lowered and removed. Only by a perilous ascent could the thieves have reached the aparatus, the removal of which is baffling University and local police, as there has not yet been found a trace or clue to solve the mystery...
...high-pressure experimentation, for x-ray apparatus, and for research in high frequency and vacuum tubes. Beneath this will be a sub-basement where there will be a special x-ray work-room sheathed in lead to prevent the filteration of the rays into photographic appliances or other aparatus that they would harmfully affect. The basment is to be equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt storage battery, one of the largest of its kind...