Word: copper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where a balcony is placed, and cylindrical above the balcony to an additional height of 10 feet. Within this tower which is 21 feet in diameter, rises a heavy masonry pier where an equatorial telescope of 12 inches aperture will be placed. The tower is covered by a revolving copper dome containing a wide slit which can be turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof is flat and is reached by a stair case which leads also to the tower...
...summaries of papers are all purely scientific; they treat of the verbs of saying in Plato, of open questions in English philology, of the separation of copper from arsenic by means of electricity, etc. Under the head of "Miscellaneous." articles of various kinds are to be found, notably the announcement of a series of lectures on Egypt to be delivered in Cambridge, Boston, New York and other cities by Miss A. B. Edwards, of London. The lectures will be on ancient as well as modern Egypt, and will treat of the discoveries made of recent years by the Egypt Exploration...
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