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Begun late in August, the bridge will provide an overhead passageway between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratory. The bridge is intended to house the Department of Applied Sciences under one roof...
...services, inspiration of Mrs. Leon Chaffee, who is the wife of the Cruft Laboratory of Physics director, sets each relieved veteran father back $5 per month. The rest of the cost is financed by the College which also supervise personnel and standards...
...humble adding machine, The International Business Machines Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. This shiny mathematical genius, composed of 765,299 parts and 530 miles of wire, has already been at work for the Navy for two years on complex problems of ship construction and ordnance in the basement of Cruft Laboratory...
Relaxing slightly after the three strenuous fall months. when Mark I was disassembled in Cruft and reassembled in the new building, Professor Aiken and his staff sat down briefly on December 19 to take a long view of their work both past and present. A bare two and a half years had passed since Mark I had been dedicated and turned immediately to recondite wartime problems. yet this infant department was now in an optimistic boom of expansion that promised to put the University in the lead in an uncharted science...
...writers of science fiction wood pulps. Incessant testing of human guinea pigs proved that loud and constant noise does no hamper efficiency or make for neurotic individuals. A steady stream of practical inventions for wartime communications and medical purposes poured forth form this laboratory and its partner project in Cruft, the Electro-Acoustic Laboratory. Among the contributions of the joint effort were an clactroacoustic air speed indicator, lightweight soundproofing for air-planes, aural blind flying instruments, and special earplugs which make possible better hearing of voice under conditions of sustained loud noise...