Word: welds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weld Hall, one of nine operating stations in the Tunnel system, regulates the busy Main Yard area of Harvard. Next year, when an electronic data processing unit is put in the basement, Weld will become the control center of the entire system. The office of Mr. Floyd Kingsbury, foreman of the Tunnel engineers, is strategically located next to the room in which this "computer" will reside, and it was here that Mr. Kingsbury gave us a briefing on how Harvard is heated...
Within the Yard, however, water for all buildings comes from a central supply which is heated in and distributed from the Weld operating station. At all times, both in the Yard and outside, the steam remains within a closed network of pipes; but in the process of giving up heat much of it condenses to distilled water. This condensate is collected and pumped (through a small pipe on the floor of the Tunnel) back to the Western Avenue power plant where it is again converted to superheated vapor...
...real modernization began only recently with the installation of a Minneapolis-Honeywell "data board" in the operating station under Langdell Hall. When Holyoke Center opened, a second board was put in the station in its basement, and sometime in 1964-65 a third one will be set up in Weld. In addition, Weld will get a master data processing unit that will collect information gathered by all three boards and put it into concise, easily readable form...
...great many other things about any building in the North Yard) simply by pushing the proper buttons. The Holyoke Center board gives Buildings and Grounds the same flexibility in the South Yard, and things will become just as simple in the Main Yard as soon as the Weld Board is connected...
...lead us. But Harry was a Main Yard man, unauthorized to cross the Massachusetts Avenue border into the South Yard; in order to follow the Tunnel farther we would first have to clear our itinerary with Mr. Kingsbury. And so with high anticipation we retraced our steps to Weld Hall...