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THE laboratory of which the foundation-stone has A been laid, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the occupation of the present Owens College buildings, will be the largest and most completely equipped in this country. It stands on a separate plot of ground adjoining the Owens College site, and consists of a main building and a large annexe, the latter being more especially intended for electro-technical work. The principal building is 100 feet long and over 60 wide, and consists of a basement and three stories. The diagram gives the comparison as regards dimensions with some of the principal laboratories abroad. The squares represent square area of floor space of the working rooms, i.e. all corridors, cloak-rooms, &c, are excluded, and the floor space of the different stories added up. It will be seen that the only laboratories materially larger than the proposed building are those of Baltimore and Darmstadt. But provision has been made for future extension, the plot of ground secured by the College being sufficiently large to double, if necessary, the size of the building.
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The New Physical Laboratory of the Owens College, Manchester. Nature 58, 621–622 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058621a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058621a0