Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ringing silver shaft sent home
...story will be the base-ball cage, which will be ninety-seven by twenty-eight feet. The cage will be lighted from above and from the sides. The space on either side of the cage for about twelve feet will be devoted to a shaft for transmitting the light to the main exercise hall and to the cage. This is regarded as one of the distinctive features of the lighting arrangements, for while other gymnasiums are lighted by the side windows only, the new gymnasium will have both the side light and the light from the roof...
...exercise hall, and will be 121 ft. long, and 76 ft. wide. Here will be all the apparatus for exercise, and no pains will be spared to make the appointments of the room as complete as possible. This floor is lighted from the side windows, and also by a shaft from the roof. About ten or twelve feet above the main exercise hall, is suspended the running track, which arrangement will obviate the necessity of having the track in the main hall and will thus allow so much more space for apparatus. On a level with the running track will...
...Prof. Rogers and his assistants. As our local experiments in explosiology are supposed to have brought into prominence this branch of science, a description of the apparatus used by Prof. Rogers, seems of interest. A cup of Mercury is placed either directly upon the earth or upon a stone shaft which rests on bed rock. Upon the surface of the Mercury is thrown the image of illuminated pin holes in a metal card; or, in some instruments, any other image is used such as the reflection of micrometer lines in a star. Any change in the surface of the mercury...
...entered the next room, and here something met our gaze which very much puzzled us. It was a large cylindrical tin box, over which hung, suspended by an iron rod connected with the shaft over head, a huge steel blade. We gazed upon it with horror; it carried us back to the days of the French Revolution and the guillotine. We wondered if it might not be an instrument which in the middle ages had been used connected in some way with the Spanish Inquisition. At this point we were informed by our guide, who noticed our perplexity that this...