Word: domes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mottoes lettered on panels ornamenting the foundations of the dome of the reading room in the new Library of Congress were selected by President Eliot...
...main observatory was built in 1891 at Arequipa, a town about 80 miles inland and about 8000 feet above sea level. Here on a plateau about 400 feet above the town itself, a large house with a dome has been built, with laboratories connecting. Between this and the sea are two other observatories, one at Mollendo, 8 feet above the sea, the other at La Joya at an elevation of about 4000 feet...
...building which is to receive the telescope will be of stout stone walls, without windows, to protect the instrument against stray missiles in times of insurrection. The dome will be a light skeleton covered with canvas. The absence of frost and snow renders this possible...
...observatory is being built for the University of Pennsylvania. The new building will be built of brick surmounted by a large steel dome. The telescope placed in a large circular room, will be an eighteen inch equatorial, built on the same general plan as the Lick instrument. It will be moved by electricity and so adjusted that it can be shifted by the slightest touch of the finger. Smaller instruments, built after the most approved models, will also be found in the observatory. Professor Doolittle, formerly of Lehigh University will conduct the course in astronomy, and will be the acting...
...ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways will lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the offices. Directly ahead the vestibule will open into the main reading room, which will be on a some what higher level and occupy the entire space beneath the dome, which will have a diameter of 70 feet. From four piers of limestone at the corners will rise four richly-coffered vaults, corresponding to the four arms of the building, and from them will spring the dome to a height of 106 feet above the floor...