Word: room
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...capable of producing sparks in air, resembling lightning flashes, of from six to seven feet in length. The discharge creates a sensation as if a window had suddenly been opened letting in a gust of wind, and sparks can be drawn from the brick walls of the room. Sparks closely resembling lightning discharges can be obtained thirty and forty feet in length through glass tubes in which the atmospheric pressure has been reduced to about two pounds and a half to the square inch...
...with this apparatus that air submitted to an electrical pressure of over two million volts becomes a fairly good conductor. In order to insulate the apparatus, it is placed three feet above the floor, and even in this position, luminous discharges from the apparatus to the floor and the room is darkened...
...Auburn street and extending back to the new Parkway. The proposed building will be of brick with stone trimmings, two and a half stories in height, with a frontage of forty-six feet, and a length of one hundred and thirty feet or more. In addition to the single rooms for students there will be a library and reading room for convalescents, rooms for the parents whose sons are patients in the Infirmary, the necesary bath rooms and laboratories, and a diet kitchen in addition to the kitchen of the Infirmary proper...
SPECIAL TO SENIORS.- Mr. W. Hargrave Kelsey, Manager Furniture Department of the Harvard Co-operative Society is now ready to make arrangements with those men about to leave here, regarding the disposal of their room furnishings. Address: P. O. Box 3396, for interview, Boston, Mass...
PRESCOTT HALL.- A few suites for next year; study, two bed-rooms and bath-room with outside window; gymnasium and shower in basement; prices reduced. Apply to janitor or to Ellis and Melledge...