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LATEST IN FACTORIES ADMIRABLE LIGHTING America is, the .home of daring inventors, and there is not a day when they fail to produce a new wonder. One of the latest buildings to rise in Racine, a Wisconsin town, is a windowless factory-—not so horrible as it sounds, for everything possible has been done to secure .the health and happiness of the employees. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who has effected good lighting by means of over 40 miles of glass tubing The exterior of the building is striking, and the interior is .exceptionally interesting. Its lighting is admirable, and the spacious rooms are remarkable for their pillars, which are wider at the top than at the bottom, a device which saves floor-space. To heat the building an elaborate network of steam pipes has been laid in the floors, which are of broken stone and concrete, and thus become vast radiators. This idea, by the way, is at any rate 2000 years old, for the Romans warmed their houses and larger buildings in much the'same way.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20066, 12 October 1939, Page 3
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180NO WINDOWS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20066, 12 October 1939, Page 3
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