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The greenhouse, 19 x 8 ft., has insulating walls consisting of two iron sheets with the 6-in. space between them filled by tightly packed sawdust. Only the south side of its roof is of glass. Heat & light are provided by ten 500-watt lamps which hang close over the...
The Institute has an $1,800 triangular quartz prism for studying the effect on plants of various wavelengths of light. Another equipment item is a huge, mobile frame, shaped like a dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior...
Though the show made no attempt to rival the historic Persian exhibitions in London's Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12, 1930), it did offer a comprehensive outline of Persian illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end...
In his purplest passage he proclaimed: "It represents four or five billion dollars' worth of lost liberty and the erection of a corresponding. Presidential speculation. It was born in the mysterious dark; it has defied intelligent illumination; its only merit is a pious, puzzling hope; its program is a...
Another innovation in Lowell House is a special lighting system which has been installed in the library. Special ceiling lights have been put in to supply a quantity of indirect illumination; further, tested reading lights have been placed above all the chairs.