Word: apparatus
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...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...
...Icarus apparatus was presumably not a helicopter with revolving wing surfaces but an ornithopter, with flapping wings...
...devoted to the College dinning 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 student 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...
...Radio apparatus on the ground will keep track of every plane. If one falls badly behind schedule, it will be ordered aside into an unoccupied lane before the planes behind it begin treading on its tail...