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...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 for supplying water...
...work rebuilding the top room of the mineralogical museum in Boylston Hall for a new laboratory for organic chemistry. The new room will be fireproof and will have all the latest improvements. The desks are tile topped and each one will be fitted with water and with a vacuum pump. There are enough of these to accomodate 32 men comfortably, and a good many more at a stretch. Nine large hoods, heated at the top with steam radiators, are built into the north wall. The eastern end of the room is divided into three compartments, two furnace rooms...
...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...
LOST.- An umbrella, on Tuesday morning, between 9 and 11 o'clock, either left at college pump or taken from Sever 25. Please leave at Leavitt and Peirce...
...people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily exercise of their powers of locomotion and speech. Is there no other grass in the city? or no other pump? If we could stop this invasion for a week or so the habit would be weakened, and we should all get better marks in our examinations...