The 90,300-sq-ft facility located in Holyoke, Mass., is operated by a consortium of Massachusettsâs most research-intensive universities. See Figures 1 and 2. The integration of power and life safety systems requires an understanding of both the sources of power and the specific requirements of the life safety loads. It also requires a team approach of various types of consulting engineers including electrical, life safety, mechanical, and fire protection.
Rosenbergs executed. On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths,...
1968: Mary Bell found guilty of double killing. An 11-year-old girl has been sentenced to life in detention after being found guilty at Newcastle Assizes of the manslaughter of two small boys. Mary Bell is said to have strangled the boys, aged four and three, solely for the pleasure and excitement of killing. The jury heard Mary, also known as May, was suffering from diminished responsibility at the time and therefore found her not guilty of murder.