Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of its travels the steam is under automatic control: reducing valves change pressures as heating demands vary, thermostats operate other valves to keep steam flow (and, consequently, water temperatures) at desired levels. The temperature of radiator water is also adjusted automatically according to how cold it is outside: when the air in the Lowell House courtyard is a crisp thirty degrees, for example, the water circulating through House radiators is kept...
...short and long rings. And when you make a call, the signal sounds on all of the phones. If you ever hear a steady 5-second blast, that means there's an emergency." (He added in passing that emergencies are rare. In fact, no serious explosion of a steam line has ever occurred...
...buttons marked with letters of the alphabet. He pushed "J" to demonstrate, and after a brief flashing of lights and grinding of gears, a diagram in glowing green lines appeared on a screen set in the control panel. "The board is now projecting a slide of water and steam pipes in area J," said Mr. McFarlane, "which happens to be the Indoor Athletic Building. Now within this area, we can take a number of readings"--he referred here to a book that listed the possibilities and showed us that each site in area J had a number which also appeared...
...Tunnel. The inside turned out to look just as one would expect the inside of a concrete pipe to look; it was cheerfully lit and almost pleasant, however, except that the low "ceiling" made it necessary to walk with a slight stoop. We recognized the usual Tunnel fixtures: steam pipes, electric conduit, telephone cables. The pipe made a number of turns so that we could not be sure of our route, but it seemed that we passed under Elsie's and somewhere near the I.A.B. before turning east. Eventually, the pipe came to an abrupt end, and by climbing down...
...Less Steam...