The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-12-04
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! Moor. CORES lunuin| Nttb tE:lt OF tii' N.lihh
| Engineers i'll the We Lateral " iuY.
| EAST TH,\sN EI;SE WING.
The Department Of Physics occupies tn,
| basement and the entire first and second
| stories of the East Transverse Wing, to
| gether with the second story of the Latera)
| Wing (tor the laborat orit~ rs stated above
| making, it is believed, accommodations fol
| this important Department not eXcelled
and scarcely equalcl i'll any other -Ameri-
| can College The basement is used for gas
| holders, battery room, Get. Repair shops,
with engine latheS, etc. and the park room
| for photometry, occupy the first floor. The
| South portion of the second story contains
! the Lecture room with raised circular seats
and fitted up with the most approved mod
ern appliances. In the rear Is the hall of
the Society OF Physics and Engineering.-
| The third and fourth floors contain class
| rooms for the students in civil engineering,
| opening into their large Drawing room, as
| i'll the West Wing for the Mining Engin-
GERS: also private Laboratories, rooms for
apparatus, models. etc, and for special stu
dents in steam engineering.
HEATING AND VENTILATION
No effort has been spared to make the
com bined system of heating and ventilation
rs complete as experience and modern sci
enre can devise. Mr.. John Sunderland, of
Philadelphia, who has had Il large expert
encc and great success in the heating and
ventilation of large buildings, is the author
of the general plan. The fresh air is sup
piled to the building by means of II spacious
air duct running through the bottom of the
cellar the entire length of the building, ter
minatlng 1T either end in vertical columns
opening into the outer air. From this main
duct there are lateral ducts leading to each
of the numerous banks of radiators in the
IL,
rectly from the outside of the building to
the steam heated radiators, over which it
passes into separate and independent tiues
leading directly to each of the rooms in the
several stories of the building
The ventilation is by means of tlues in
the walls, leading from the floor line of each
room to the cellar where they terminate in
duets along the base of the cellar wall
which ducts are carried from the extreme
ends towards the center of the building, Ell
larging gradually rs they approach the ceu-
ter, where they are all gathered into two
main ducts which terminate in two large
air shafts that are carried up through and
our of the top of the front towers. The air
in these ascending shafts is kept in constant
motion by bank of steam radiators placed
i'll the base of each shaft. BY this means
| there will be constant ingress of warm,
pure air to the rooms, and an egreSs of i'm
pure air carried down through the duets in
the walls. BY this system the very best
results obtainable in heating and ventila-
ton are looked for.
But even this rapid sketch would be in
complete without adding that every precau-
tion has been taken in the reconstruction of
the building against the recurrence of the
former disaster and that the building has
been completed and will be dedicated with
out Il dollar of debt or Il dollar taken from
the general treasury of the College.