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...first coat has entirely set. The floor of the fire, engine and coal rooms, will be made of hard brick set on a gravel bed and covered with cement. The floor of the laboratory and that part of the floor of the western wing that lies over the Rumford lecture room, and those portions of the floors of the central part of the building that lie over the two recitation rooms, will be deadened on the under floor by laying cement mortar, and covering the whole with stout manilla paper. The under floors are to be made of spruce plank...
...fitted up with reference to electricity, heat, magnetism and sound. In each room of the first floor there are independent piers, built up from the basement, insulated from the walls and floors, upon which delicate instruments are to be placed. Similar rooms devoted to optics, electricity, and the Rumford laboratory are located upon the second story. The third floor is as yet assigned to no definite use, and, with the exception of a room for photography, can be left to meet the wants of the future. The basement of this section is occupied by a room for magnetism...