Word: slates
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brokaw Building fair progress has been made, when the small number of men at work is taken into consideration. The entire building, including the swimming pool, is under cover, and the eupola on the main building is about completed and ready for the slate. The upper flooring is finished and the walls are ready for lathing and plastering...
...finch family - is about the size of a Robin but of stouter build, with short neck. a round head and thick strong bill. The colors vary with age and sex. In immaturity the prevailing tints are yellowish brown, or bronze as it as often termed, and ash or slate gray. Mature females are of a rich yellowish bronze and ash while old males wear a rosy tint which sometimes changes to deep carmin, on head, rump and breast...
Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. G. W. Tower, "The Intrusive Rocks at Lowell." Mr. H. B. Goodrich, "The Dorchester and West Roxbury Slate." Mr. L. S. Griswold, "A Ratio between the Corrosive and Erosive Processes in the Triassic Region of Connecticut," Geological Laboratory...
...halls are already completed with the exception of the lighting fixtures. The stairways leading from the different floors are complete, the steps being made out of thick slate. In each roomis a large steam heating arrangement and also an automatic ventilator. In the basement are the machines, such as hydraulic presses, lathes, motors, etc. The boiler rooms and heating apparatus which is to supply the heat in the building is practically completed, and fires have been kept going in the furnaces for the past ten days. The addition to the building in the northeast corner is the least finished part...
...halls of the building being made entirely of slate, iron and brick, will be fire-proof. Ventilating apparatus will be put in two of the corner towers, and shafts in the other two, one for the boiler rooms, and the other for the hydraulic apparatus. A one story boiler house will be built between this building and North Sheffild Hall, and near that will be the steam engine laboratories. The buildings will be finished in hard wood, heated by steam and fitted with all modern arrangements. It is expected that the building will be completed next September...