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Died. Ole Singstad, 87, master tunnel builder; in Manhattan. Beginning with New York's Holland Tunnel in 1927, the Norwegian-born Singstad designed and built dozens of underwater highways, including New York's Lincoln and Brooklyn Battery tunnels, and the 1¾-mile Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. What made them all possible was his ingenious ventilation system, which sucks out deadly exhaust fumes with fans so efficiently that it has become standard the world over...
...Dietrich Gerhard, Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Berlin and Lecturer at the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik, will be lecturer and tutor in History during the second half-year. Dr. Gerard Pieter Kulper, of the Lick Observatory, University of California, will be lecturer on Astronomy. Ole Singstad, Chief Engineer on Tunnels, Port of New York Authority, will visit Harvard to lecture at the Graduate School of Engineering. Kenneth Vivian Thimann, Instructor in Bacteriology, California Institute of Technology, will be lecturer on Botany during the first half-year...
...year from September 1, 1935 Ole Singstad, appointed Lecturer on Sub-aqueous Tunnels. C.E., Polytechnic Institute of Trondheim, Norway. Chief Consulting Engineer on Tunnels, Port of New York Authority. Home: New York City...
...protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland.† For years Engineer Ole Singstad, assisted by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Illinois and Yale universities, studied to perfect a suitable system. Now air is pumped into a channel under the roadbed, let into the tunnel proper through slots at the curbs, pumped out through a channel above the ceiling. Thus no longitudinal...
...Singstad, chief engineer and superintendent of the Holland Tunnel, will address a meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society on Friday, March 14 at 7.30 o'clock in 110 Pierce Hall. Members of the University are cordially invited...