Word: floors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held in eight different gymnastic events and the man who wins the greatest number of points becomes the "college gymnast" for the year. Much interest is being manifested in the coming gymnastic exhibition at the Yale gymnasium on February 27 Daily practice is being held on the main floor of the gymnasium, about thirty men being in training for the contest...
...work on the mosaic floor in the Fogg Art Museum is almost finished. The stucco work in the front rooms on the first floor, and in all the rooms on the second floor is completed. It will be some time, however, before the large lecture room will be finished...
...large room on the ground floor is fitted with machinery for experimental purposes. There are four machines for testing the strength of metals, one having a strength of 200,000 pounds, and another a strength of 60,000 pounds. There is a machine for testing currents, an oil tester, and a tester for steam indicators. For driving this machinery there is an engine of twenty-five or thirty horse power. Steam is furnished by an upright boiler in the rear part of the building. In connection with the boiler are a blower for forced draught and an automatic feed-pump...
...large space in the northeast corner of the room is devoted to hydraulic machinery. A stand-pipe five feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in height extends above the level of the third floor. This is for experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will...
...interior work on the Fogg Art Museum is slowly progressing. At present twelve men are busy laying the mosaic floor in the main hall. This work will be finished in a week. Twenty-five men are doing the stucco work in the front room on the first floor and in the large lecture room. They will finish the work in about a month and will be followed by the carpenters. The wood-work will require several months, so that the building will not be finished before June...