AIDS SCIENCE LECTURES
Some science staff of the University of Canterbury said they “felt like the driver of a space capsule” when they held their first classes in the new science lecture block at Ham. The reason was the array of controls built into the benches behind which they stand. In the laboratory building, not yet in use, 26 services are said to be “piped in the pillars.” They range from coal gas, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulphide, to compressed air, vacuum pumping, and steam. The four main lecture theatres, which hold a total of 1500 students, do not have all of these, but there is provision for some of them. In addition there are many switches for lighting and other controls. Some of the big benches can be wheeled away to preparation rooms for the setting up of demonstrations and then taken back and “plugged in” to the service controls. In the photograph Professor C. J. Wilkins (chemistry) prepares for a lecture.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31018, 25 March 1966, Page 12
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