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...laboratory has already proved useful to a variety of industrial and community projects by providing an independent agency for fan testing. Such tests have been made for the East Boston Vehicular Tunnel and the Harvard Medical school Power Plant
...tube pitches down 900 ft. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and clawing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 ft. into dark and muck, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were injured, some dangerously...
Despite the fact that the Cambridge City Council last spring refused the proposal of Mayor Russell to buy steam from the University, the city has decided to make use of the Harvard heating tunnels for all city buildings in the vicinity of Memorial Hall. At present a tunnel is being built from the University tunnel near Memorial Hall to the site of the new Rindge Technical School, and upon the completion of the new fire station there will also be a connection to that building...
...built the Outerbridge Crossing (Staten Island to Perth Amboy. N. J.); the Goethals Bridge (Staten Island to Elizabeth. N. J.): the Bayonne Bridge (Staten Island to Bayonne. N. J.); the George Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns and operates profitably the Holland Vehicular Tunnel, is now planning a second vehicular tube under the Hudson. It is building a 16- million-dollar inland terminal to be used as a receiving centre for all less-than-a-carload railroad freight. An efficient, businesslike, self-sustaining public agency, it is comparatively free from petty politics.-ED. Smart Farmer...
...city out of a wagon-train village at a creekmouth were the men who organized Denver's own railroad to connect it with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne. They included Governor John Evans who founded the University of Denver; David Halliday Moffat, the mining man for whom the Moffat Tunnel is named; Walter Scott Cheesman, Denver waterworks builder. When Bryan's fight for the 16-to-1 silver ratio was finally defeated, silver was ruined, but not Denver. Its railroad enabled it to change from mining city to food city. Modern Denver was built by cattle, sheep, irrigation, wheat...