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Identifier: schoolarchitectu00bruc (find matches)
Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sure the comfort and thegood health of the pupil. The individual deskmust be attractive in appearance, and made ofthe best hard maple or oak and flawless steel oriron. Its edges must be beveled, its cornersrounded, its hinges noiseless, its varnish, japanand glue the best that money can buy. Vacuum Cleaning for schools, while still inits experimental stage, will undoubtedly becomean important item of equipment in the near future.It is based on the idea of entirely removing dustand dirt from classrooms and subsequently de-stroying it. Briefly, a good system requires avacuum producer capable of maintaining a vac-uum of ten inches mercury. It must be equippedwith an air-tight and dust-proof separator ofsufficient capacity, located preferably in the base-ment. A system of smooth-bore vacuum pipingought to be installed in the building with specialfittings which enable the construction of a con-duit perfectly smooth from intake to discharge.The cleaning tools must, of course, be movable, 95
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96 School Architecture durable and easily handled, with a suction forceof two inches beyond the metal parts of the toolto assure effectiveness in corners and under desks.The system must assure the removal of a maxi-mum of dust at a minimum of cost and annoyance. Program Clocks and automatic bell-ringingsystems are entirely too successful and wellknown to require argument. Large high schoolscannot be operated without them. They workwith almost human intelligence and are mechan-ically as perfect as seems possible for the pres-ent. Program systems require a master clock andsecondary bells and clocks which are all con-trolled by the master clock. In elementaryschools simple electric push buttons with properconnections with the school grounds should besupplied. Special Thermometers ought to be hung inevery classroom and corridor of a school buildingunless a system of automatic temperature regula-tion is installed. When such a system is installedspecial instruments are, of course, unnecessa

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