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...Cambridge Electric Company, which supplies Harvard with steam heat and electricity, was granted a variance earlier this week that will allow the plant to burn the 2.2-per-cent-more-polluting fuel...
Hall said that he has begun a study of the feasibility of utilizing the heat lost in transfer from the Cambridge Electric Company to the North Yard. "The steam pipes are housed in tunnels to ease repair. Inside, the pipes act like giant radiators," Hall said. "In some places, if we just opened a door, the heat could seep into the building." Hall cited Weld Hall as an example...
Hall said that Harvard gets its power from the Cambridge Electric Company, which converts fuel oil into steam and electricity for the consumer. "The national shortage of fuel oil will necessitate cut-backs," Hall said, adding that "only the extent is undetermined...
...great Greek scientist Archimedes, the study of mathematics and physics meant far more than pure scholarship. Imaginative application of the laws he worked out led to eminently practical inventions-from contrivances employing the lever to an ingenious steam-powered cannon. Perhaps his most remarkable contribution to weaponry, according to Lucian, Plutarch and other ancient writers, was a "burning glass" that focused the sun's rays to set fire to Roman ships besieging his home town of Syracuse around 214 B.C. Exactly how Archimedes managed this spectacular use of solar power has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Many...
Henry Baker, a laborer at AP&L's Cecil Lynch steam plant at North Little Rock, Ark., also contends that company requirements and union contracts effectively bar blacks from promotion...