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...Smoke abatement work," Dean Clifford said, "is to the engineer simply the application of sound and well-known engineering principles to the design and operation of the fuel-burning plants. Along this line, a member of the faculty of the Engineering School has had occasion to visit several boiler rooms in and about Boston with a view to inspecting the equipment, supervising alterations, and instructing the firemen...
...Stets Company of Boston, who have agreed to have the building void of all machinery by April 12. The contract was sublet to two concerns, one the Zimble Company, which is removing the generators, and another the Shaughnessy and Ahern Company, which is taking out the old boiler equipment. The men working for Zimble were non union men, while those employed by Shaughnessy and Ahern were strictly union...
Even with two firemen and a reserve boiler-full of hot water it is doubted by Harvard Athletic Association officials if enough water can be supplied to provide each athlete with a three-minute shower. If it proves impossible to do this the difficulty has already been overcome, for it is planned to post a man amongst the bathers whose duty will be to see that no one stays in longer than the maximum limit of half a minute...
Federal agents, peering through a window of a private house from a back alley, saw steam rising from copper coils, heard the roar of a boiler fire, smelled the sour odor of cooking mash. Although they did not see the moonshiners at work, they broke into the house without warrant, seized the aromatic mash, the steaming still...
...practical operation Professor Goddard suggested last week a mirror 20 feet in diameter focusing on a boiler with a fused quartz base. The boiler would contain, instead of pulverized carbon, mercury sprayed continuously at the focus point of the reflected light. The mercury spray would turn instantly to mercury vapor and in turn vaporize the water which would operate a steam turbine. The turbine would operate an electric generator. Efficiency of such a sun engine would be 50% of the sun energy fused.* Professor Goddard calculates that such an engine would produce 30 h.p. while operated under a clear...