Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building are 73 feet by 88 feet. It is three stories high, and is of brick. The entrance is through a large door which leads to a spacious vestibule, the walls of which are of mottled Pompeiian brick. The floor is laid in mosaic tile. A broad, iron staircase leads from this vestibule to the third story...
From the hall, just before entering the study room, is a door leading to the library. This room is provided with iron racks and adjustable shelves. The windows looking out into the hall are made of fire-proof glass. The material is a novelty. The metal while in the molten state has been poured over a wire screen, so that if a fire should break out the flames could not crack the glass...
...lecture before the Engineering Society on Friday evening, April 26, at 7.45 in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Mr. Hodges graduated in the class of '85 of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was for some years connected with the Phoenix Bridge Co. He was afterwards manager of the Union Iron works in New York. The subject of his lecture is "Bridge Erection" and it will be fully illustrated by lantern slides, a complete set of which has been collected by Mr. Hodge especially for this lecture. The lecture will be open to the public...
...HAYES, Temp. Capt.HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY. - There will be a members meeting of the Society at 7.45 this evening in Room 1, L. S. S. Papers on "Operating Machine Tools by Electricity," "Fly-Wheel Accidents," and "The Extraction of Cast Iron from the Ore," will be read and discussed...
Geological Conference. Papers: Geology of Sequatchee Valley, Tenn., Mr. R. E. Dodge; Review of Blow's "The Geology and Ore-Deposits of Iron Hill, Leadville, Colo.," Mr. J. E. Woodman; Review of Spurr's "The Mesabi Iron-Bearing Rocks," Mr. H. L. Smyth. Geological Laboratory...