Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trowbridge has in the last two years placed the study of electricity at Harvard in advance of any other college, by means of a powerful apparatus set up in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. This battery, then the strongest in the world, was able to produce sparks in air three feet long...
...Professor Trowbridge has just completed another still more powerful apparatus for the study of electrical force It is capable of producing sparks in air, resembling lightning flashes, of from six to seven feet in length. The discharge creates a sensation as if a window had suddenly been opened letting in a gust of wind, and sparks can be drawn from the brick walls of the room. Sparks closely resembling lightning discharges can be obtained thirty and forty feet in length through glass tubes in which the atmospheric pressure has been reduced to about two pounds and a half...
...first round was rowed yesterday. The closest race was between the Roxbury Latin crew and Noble and Greenough's, the former winning out by three feet in very good time. Cambridge High and Latin beat Brown and Nichols by a length; Boston Latin School beat Stone's School by three lengths and Chauncy Hall beat Volkmann's. The crews are of an exceptionally good quality for school crews and the races have fully rewarded the interest taken in them...
...state has purchased 10,330 feet of land on the north side of West Harvard street, Brighton, just across the Charles River, to be used in the new park system...
...half a length ahead; the second then pulled up and passed the First boat by a short distance. From that point to near the finish it was anyone's race, both crews spurting hard; the First 'Varsity, however, drew slightly ahead and won out by less than five feet...