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...hundred and sixty five acres have been added to the campus, making in all two hundred and twenty acres. Nine new buildings have been added: Edwards, University, and Murray Halls, the new President's house, Marquand chapel, the Biological laboratory, the Art museum, the Magnetic observatory, and the dynamo building. Enlargements have been made upon the School of Science and Nassua Hall, and four new buildings are to be built, two of which are now being built...
There are four buildings in the process of construction at Princeton, the art museum, magnetic observatory, the dynamo house and Brown hall. The latter is a dormitory 175 feet long, the gift of Mrs. S. D. Brown of Trenton...
...more powerful machines are called "Series machines," in which the current from the dynamo is strengthened by passing through all the large coil of its electric-magnet. The ordinary are light is made by breaking the outside circuit of a Series machine. The carbon tips must be together when the current is started, and the break is made by lifting the upper one a little by a mechanical arrangement. The powerful current, in overcoming the resistance offered by the air, heats the carbon tips to a white heat. In the incandescent lamp the resistance is offered by a filament...
...plans of the Edison Company have been approved by the corporation, and the main trouble just now is as to where the dynamo can be placed with most advantage. It is necessary to avoid the noise which it would make, were it placed in the cellar of Gore Hall, and the expense of laying the wires will be increased by just so much for every yard the dynamo is distant from the building it is intended to supply. But this is a question which it will take but a very few days to settle...
...dynamos are also considerably modified, thought the differences are not evident to the untrained eye, as in the case of the lamps. The inventor claims for these dynamos a capacity of fifteen or more lamps per horse power against eight or ten by all other systems. But the great interest to the public at large, and to Harvard students in particular, lies in the fact that these new machines can be constructed so cheaply as to be no more expensive than gas, so that there is no reason why we should not all have the electric lights in our rooms...