Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feet steel radio towers are being erected on the roof at each end of the new Cruft Memorial Laboratory as the final step in the installation of the University's first wireless station, according to the changed arrangement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to which the high tension work is to be done there and the wireless experiments are to be carried on at the University...
...Technology has proceeded at a fast rate, and a great deal has been done since the first pouring of concrete, which took place last April. In all of the buildings but the library, all the structural concrete has been poured, and the construction work is now up to the roof. This structural concrete is the skeleton of the buildings. It is poured in a semi-liquid state into wooden forms, and is reinforced by steel rods. The foundation walls, piers, interior columns and floors are all made of this material. Up to the present 27,000 cubic yards of concrete...
...building is three stories in height, with a loft for storage purposes. The structure is absolutely fireproof, and represents the latest ideas in current construction. The floors, roof and stairways are built of reinforced concrete, while the outer walls are of brick and the inner walls of hollow tile blocks. The roof is slated, and has, on the top, a flat runway, on each end of which a steel lattice-work tower for supporting wireless antenna is to be erected. These have not yet been erected, but will be in place in a few weeks. The building contains 25 rooms...
...York city is now practically completed. The building, located at Vanderbilt Avenue and 44th street, will have 160 bedrooms, but will take no permanent boarders, as the officers intend to make it a headquarters for all visiting Yale men. One of the features of the new clubhouse is the roof-garden, which has been substituted for what had been at first planned as the twenty-first story of the structure...
...William Smith Hall, and at the north side of the quadrangle is George Smith Hall. The southern side is formed by the wings of William and Persis, respectively. Within the court on the eastern facade of Persis is a good sized clock at the fourth story; and on the roof of the southern side of the building is a tower suggestive of that on Harvard Hall. The south side of this set of buildings, contains, on the ground floor, the common room and dining room, one at either side of a central door. The common room has built-in, leather...