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Engineering added a temporary milestone to its faith when one Benjamin B. Odell, a former Governor of New York, drove a rivet. He completed the longest single span in the world. The great span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the...
W. A., '57, and C. G. Roebling, '71. W. A. was chief engineer for the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Their firm supplied the cables for the Williamsburg Bridge, "longest suspension structure ever erected."
Montreal. "God bless Eddie!" cried a lusty voice. The Baron raised his hat in acknowledgement. That was his informal welcome to Canada. He remained aboard his train and busied himself, between posings for camera men, in answering cables.
The Harvard Observatory yesterday received cables and telegrams verifying the discovery of a comet by Finsler of Bonn, Germany, word of which came first on Saturday in a cable announcing Finsler's discovery as a problematical comet.
"To compress cables and telegrams a considerable code was developed through the years. For himself he selected the cipher word 'Andes,' modestly taking the name of the second highest altitude on the earth's surface. He commonly went by the code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George...