Word: steele
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feet steel radio towers are being erected on the roof at each end of the new Cruft Memorial Laboratory as the final step in the installation of the University's first wireless station, according to the changed arrangement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to which the high tension work is to be done there and the wireless experiments are to be carried on at the University...
...racks which hold the sixty miles of shelves are all in place. Both are of pressed steel, covered with a dark grey enamel. There are sixteen floors of these cases, capable of holding 2,500,000 volumes. Work on them has ceased, and the shelves will be in place by the first of April. These main book cases are extremely open. They extend only seven and a half feet from the floor, so that every volume may be reached without a stand. Means for transporting the books to and from the shelves, and a numbering system, have been carefully arranged...
...central room as completed has been raised from two to three stories and has been equipped with steel cases for containing specimens and tables for observation. This addition was made possible by the gift of five members of the visiting committee...
...long process of rebuilding the Gray Herbarium has been finished by the completion of the central room within the last few days. The original frame structure, erected in 1864 to house Dr. Gray's collection, has been entirely rebuilt in steel and concrete, so that it is now the best equipped and best building adapted for its purpose in the world...
...buildings but the library, all the structural concrete has been poured, and the construction work is now up to the roof. This structural concrete is the skeleton of the buildings. It is poured in a semi-liquid state into wooden forms, and is reinforced by steel rods. The foundation walls, piers, interior columns and floors are all made of this material. Up to the present 27,000 cubic yards of concrete and 2,600 tons of steel reinforcing have been used. Including the library buildings, the 27,000 cubic yards is 73 per cent. of the whole amount of concrete...