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Guiding Cables. Below 200 ft. the glide slope beam of conventional ILS is not dependable because of ground interference and reflections from nearby buildings. In Britain, where fog is frequent and nasty, magnetic cables have been laid leading to the runways. Instruments enable a pilot to keep between the cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: How to Come in Blind | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

On the way to Holyoke Center, we asked our guide whether it was usual to connect all new buildings to the Tunnel. He replied that the Tunnel is only extended when new buildings are close by. "Otherwise, the expense is prohibitive, and we just join the pipes through a trench...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Travels Through The Harvard Labyrinth | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

We thanked Mr. McFarlane for the demonstrations and with our guide walked out of the control room, down some steps into the five-foot pipe leading to the Tunnel. The inside turned out to look just as one would expect the inside of a concrete pipe to look; it was...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Travels Through The Harvard Labyrinth | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

Tonis has been interested in the Tunnel ever since, and when he became Chief of the University Police in 1962, one of the first things he did was to study its route. Harvard's network of steam tunnels (or simply, the Tunnel) extends for about three miles. It lies beneath...

Author: By Andrew T. Well, | Title: The Tunnel: Subterranean Harvard | 4/28/1964 | See Source »

"The whole service system of Harvard is predominantly underground," Harry told us. To support his statement he indicated the power conduit (a metal pipe of modest size) and the telephone lines (several thick black cables). It seemed to us that the whole service system of Harvard was also quite vulnerable...

Author: By Andrew T. Well, | Title: The Tunnel: Subterranean Harvard | 4/28/1964 | See Source »

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