Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Approximately 200 University buildings are currently heated with steam although only Radcliffe and the Quadrangle have their own boiler rooms, says Hawkes...
...first went up, they featured Madame C. J. Walker, a hair-care product inventor who became a self-made millionaire; Edward A. Bouchet, the first African-American to receive a doctorate from an American university with his physics Ph.D. from Yale; and Granvile T. Woods, who invented the steam boiler furnace and an automatic air brake used to stop trains...
Another Boston report described a family "bothered by the uncontrollable heat in [their apartment], which is directly above the boiler room. The temperature is always above 85 degrees....The surface of the floor is even hotter; the familymust wear shoes at all times to avoid burning thesoles of their feet...
...been able to stop the station's rotation, they hadn't been able to point it toward anything useful. With the solar panels still in shadow, the cabin lights and instrument panels went dead, and the fans and pumps that gave the spacecraft the atmosphere of a low-decibel boiler room fell silent. Huddling together in the main module, Tsibliyev, Lazutkin and Foale spent a few serene hours watching Earth roll silently by. All that disturbed their reverie was the periodic waving of flight plans about in order to fan away their exhaled carbon dioxide, which the ship's ventilators...
...school administrators somehow failed to spend $600,000 earmarked for early-intervention programs now deemed crucial to real urban-school reform, the state pulled back the money. The school system also failed to tap a $58 million building-construction fund until a girl was seriously burned when a school boiler forced superheated steam through a school toilet, says Nancy Grasmick, state superintendent of education...