Word: stairways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well of the stairway in the addition affords excellent opportunity for repeating Foucault's celebrated experiment demonstrating the rotation of the earth, by means of swinging a long pendulum, the deflection of which from its plane shows the rotation of the earth. During the second half year this experiment will be tried...
Active work has been done in all departments of the Museum during the year. Exploration in Central America has been successfully continued, and photographs, moulds, casts, and sculptures have been added to the collections. The series of moulds taken from the great Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan has been completed and a model of the ancient city is now in the Central American Hall of the Museum. T. e. Sacred Buffalo Hide and other articles belonging to the Omaha Indians, which were stolen from their keeper just as he was about to present them to the Museum have been found...
...expected that the room will seat 250 persons. To the left is another lecture room, 30 feet by 24 feet 6 inches, and adjoining it is a library of the same dimensions. The rear addition contains a small lecture room, 17 feet by 19 feet, opposite which is the stairway. The second floor has only two rooms; a large exhibition hall, 77 feet by 51 feet and the curator's room in the rear, 17 feet by 19 feet. The third floor is almost the same as the second; but the ceiling of the exhibition room has a raised skylight...
...shrine to Karl Marx still guards the stairway to the third floor, and urges "Workers of the world unite" in 14 different languages...