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Preliminary studies for the New York World's Fair and original lithographs of Boulder Dam and other national engineering projects are now on display in Robinson Hall, main building of the Graduate School of Design...
...Boulder Dam...
...lithographs are by William Woolett and they provide a graphic record of Boulder Dam and other national projects from their conception to completion...
Thirty-five prints are included in the exhibit, forming a record of the construction of the all-American Canal, the Boulder Dam Transmission Line, the Colorado River Aqueduct, and the San Francisco Bridges. These scenes were visited by Woolett over a period of five years, so that the various stages of the project might be sketched...
...keel to top deck. It will have a streamlined bow like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks...