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...Nuclear Laboratory has a staff of about 40 people which includes researchers, electronics experts and highly skilled maintenance men. Besides their normal duties, the staff must perform as a construction gang when any new apparatus is being built...
...devoted to the College dining hall or Commons, which had in the basement beneath it a kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall, containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes, and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
...found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a students suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor became the library, the old chapel downstairs became a recitation room, and the former Commons became a "mineralogical cabinet." But when the Gore Hall library was built, twenty-five years later, these two lower rooms...
...predict how the new weapons will react upon one another and upon older weapons. Another unknown quantity is their cost, which is sure to be high. But many advantages are gained by dispensing with the human crewmen, who need space, visibility, heating and cooling, oxygen and pressurizing apparatus. And the crew of the modern bomber is an expensive item itself; it takes money and time to train its members...
Chemist Duisberg had begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...