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Show Keeping Up ien:e Science Service. WNU Service. Highest Laboratory in World Built on Top of Mt. Evans Protected Against Wind, Lightning and Rats Denver. The campus of the University of Denver has been extended up to the peak of Mt. Evans at 14,259 feet. There, at the end of the highest high-est automobile road in the United States, stands the highest high-est laboratory in the world, being some three thousand feet higher than the famous laboratory on the Jungfrau Joch in Europe. This laboratory is a joint project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Denver. The building was pre-fab-ricated in Denver, cut into sections and transported from Denver to Mt. Evans in one day by the use of a nine-truck caravan. CCC men did yeoman service in carrying 40 sections averaging in weight from 200 to 500 pounds, up the rocky knoll from the terminal of the automobile road to the site of the laboratory. They also constructed con-structed the foundation for the building. Will Stand Wind and Weather. The laboratory is designed to withstand a wind velocity of 150 miles per hour and to screen out electrical disturbances of this region, re-gion, which at times cause electric sparks to jump from one's fingertips, finger-tips, ears, and nose, and make the hair stand out like the quills of a frightened porcupine. Also it had to be made as impervious and impregnable im-pregnable to rodents and souvenir-hunting souvenir-hunting tourists as possible. To make the structure wind-proof, wind-proof, side walls were eliminated, while the protection from lightning was accomplished by having the end walls, the roof, and the floor completely surrounded with metal which is connected to ground wires buried deeply in the mountain. This also protects against rodents, but no satisfactory method has been found for protection against tourists. tour-ists. The new laboratory is expected to be one of the sights which the hundreds hun-dreds of scientists attending the meeting here of the American Association As-sociation for the Advancement of Science next June 21-26 will wish to see. Not for Cosmic Rays Only. Use of the laboratory will not be limited to research work on cosmic rays. The first work done was that "by Dr. Fred D'Amour of the department de-partment of zoology, who studied the physiological changes In the rat due to high altitude. The department de-partment of meteorology has long desired a station at high altitude where observers could be placed. Requests to use the laboratory have been received from cosmic Tay workers at McGill university. Harvard university, and the University Univer-sity of Chicago. Requests from workers in other fields have been received from the Colorado State Museum, Colorado State college, and the University of Michigan. |