Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...over one hundred feet long, about twenty feet wide, and the water is kept at a depth of about seven feet. It is lined with white tile and fitted up with spring boards, trapezes, rings and overhanging rings. The water circulates continually through pipes leading to the immense boiler where the water is heated. The dressing rooms connected with the tank-rooms contain more than five hundred lockers with the necessary shower baths adjoining. An assessment is levied on all the students to defray the running expenses...
...Physics Building will contain the departments of physics, geology, modern languages, and a couple of rooms for mathematics. The university building will contain the boiler house, the gymnasium, the dining hall, and the academic theatre. Plans are about to be begun for buildings to contain the departments of chemistry, metallurgy, the various engineering departments, and architecture...
...third floor has the necessary lofts, and also rooms for the assistant surgeons and house surgeons. In the basement is a shoeing forge and a boiler-room...
...position to the keeper of the room. There will be between the towers small consultation rooms at each end of each floor of the new stack. A door will connect the reading room with the apartment over the delivery room, affording additional space for books and readers. The old boiler room (beneath the delivery room) will be fitted for newspapers and pamphlets. The entire building, new and old, will be wired for electric bulbs, 1,200 in number...
...pounds, and another a strength of 60,000 pounds. There is a machine for testing currents, an oil tester, and a tester for steam indicators. For driving this machinery there is an engine of twenty-five or thirty horse power. Steam is furnished by an upright boiler in the rear part of the building. In connection with the boiler are a blower for forced draught and an automatic feed-pump for supplying water...