Word: fire-proof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most important event mentioned is the completion of the new fire-proof brick building and the transfer to it of about 30,000 stellar photographs. Three expeditions have been sent out to the Harvard station in Peru during the past year and two have already returned while the third has begun work successfully. The entire income of the Paine fund, one of the largest gifts ever made to astronomy, is this year for the first time available for the use of the observatory. Notwithstanding this important increase in the resources, the expenses due to additional undertakings have also become greater...
...corridors will be finished in yellow brick and the stair cases will be built entirely of iron, precautions which will render the structure semi fire-proof. The plans provide for two lavatories on every floor and these will be equipped with shower baths and closets. There are to be eighty-six suites of rooms in Perkins, the largest number in any Harvard dormitory. Each suite is intended for one occupant and will consist of a study 13 ft. by 16 ft., and a bed chamber 9 ft. by 12 ft. The studies will have comfortable window seats and will...
...thirds of the subscriptions for the fire-proof building to hold the photographic places at the observatory have been collected...
...halls of the building being made entirely of slate, iron and brick, will be fire-proof. Ventilating apparatus will be put in two of the corner towers, and shafts in the other two, one for the boiler rooms, and the other for the hydraulic apparatus. A one story boiler house will be built between this building and North Sheffild Hall, and near that will be the steam engine laboratories. The buildings will be finished in hard wood, heated by steam and fitted with all modern arrangements. It is expected that the building will be completed next September...
...additional sum of $10,000 from Mrs. Henry Draper of N. Y., to be expended by the Director of the Observatory in prosecuting the researches in the photography of stellar spectra, with which the late Dr. Henry Draper's name is honorably associated; subscriptions towards the construction of a fire-proof building for storing valuable manuscripts and photographic plates at the Observatory, paid to Aug. 1st, '91 amount to $1800; subscriptions paid to Aug. 1st, '91, amount to $4,100 for cases and furniture for Prof. Cooke's addition to the University Museum, $6,400 for a classical dept. library...