Alison Wong remembers playing in the air shaft with her siblings.
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Its central window faces an air shaft with a brick wall.
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It might wrap around the air shaft, but I think that's a tortured interpretation.
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"We wrote the place off because of the air shaft view," Ms. Vlachos said.
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The thin light spilled through the air shaft and onto our bed, and in it he looked strange.
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The little 1963 shelf-and-tube piece reappears in larger, more elaborate versions, its horizontal air shaft intact.
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That is why Alison Wong escaped to her refuge in the air shaft amid the din of tenement life.
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The smaller second bedroom, which Mr. Boritt planned to use as a studio, faced north onto an air shaft.
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It had a small renovated kitchen with a peninsula, a large closet and three windows overlooking an air shaft.
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Later laws required windows, but they could open onto a small air shaft that provided very little light or air.
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It was at Avenue A and St. Marks Place, but the windows looked out on an air shaft, not the park.
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A hotel might call this "a courtyard view," but air ducts and other visible infrastructure made this just a large air shaft.
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I recall idly dropping light bulbs down our own 11th Street air shaft, just to hear the experimental music of small implosions and tinkling glass.
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A ping pong ball with a Wolves logo shot itself up the air shaft into the winner's circle, giving Minnesota the sixth pick in the draft.
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Although we had booked almost six months in advance and were staying for four nights, we were given a room with a view into an air shaft.
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They'd shut off the lights, neutralize a half-dozen security guards with stun grenades, pilot a jumper drone through an air shaft, then hack the servers. Me?
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Hunting on the Upper East and West Sides for a pet-friendly building with a doorman and an elevator, they found only low floors and air shaft views.
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A bony reptile lay across Mr. Ritter's toolbox as he worked on a saxophone by the soft light that filtered in from the air shaft through sooty windows.
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For several years, the rent-regulated tenants of 119 Second Avenue in the East Village say, they complained to city inspectors about a clanging, squeaking exhaust system in the building's air shaft.
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My friends and I spent close to an hour with Tim and one of his friends, solving puzzles, crawling through an air shaft, working on math problems I hadn't seen since high school.
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By morning, I could see things more clearly and would think, really think about what it would take to raise a child in a small city apartment that faced an air shaft, without a washing machine or dishwasher.
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Located underneath an air shaft that had been covered with a large wooden pallet, police said they believe Eaton's body, which was discovered face-down, was dumped inside of the cave after she had been suffocated to death.
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While large amounts of droppings — like what you might find in a poorly maintained air shaft or rooftop — may pose a moderate health risk, a lone pet pigeon will not endanger you, your neighbors or your water supply.
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The friends had jumped between three buildings and were headed back to where they started when Natalia lost her footing and slipped into an enclosed air shaft between the buildings — 697 and 699 10th Avenue — landing on the pavement.
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The kitchen and bathroom windows looked out onto a grimy air shaft, and right into my neighbors' apartments, so at night I did a lot of ducking, being too slack to install a shade or even tack up a sheet.
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It has 94 amp hours (up from 60Ah in the prior version) worth of Samsung lithium ion batteries, designed with an "aerodynamically optimized cooling air shaft" — imagine a hole in the battery pack for air to move through — to help with heat dissipation.
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What was once an indulgence for the luxury market has trickled down to the middle market, with sellers shelling out huge sums to transform their living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms into (greige) resort-like retreats meant to wow a potential buyer into not noticing that the living room is oddly shaped, with no logical place to put a television, or that the bathroom window looks out on the air shaft from the neighboring apartment building.
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Air shaft is a machine part or shaft which tightens the core or roll on filling air. Air Shafts are of two types: # Contains Inflatable Rubber tube inside also called Lug shafts. # Which contains bladder multiple outside also called Multi-tube Shaft . In Lugs type Air shaft, shaft consist of air bladder inside it.
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More simply, the closed tunnel on the former Barry–Pontypridd route is long, the 9th longest Great Western tunnel. It is brick-lined apart from a short section at the south end. It has an air shaft near the centre of its length, almost as wide as the tunnel. Its original air shaft chimney of circular red brick with Staffordshire blue corbelling, was removed following closure and a breeze-block structure built to the rear of a concrete-aproned area of a retail outlet and which at ground level, occupies an airway of only a quarter of the circular air shaft area below ground.
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Worse, the air shaft acted as a flue spreading fire from apartment to apartment.Robert W. DeForest and Lawrence Veiller, eds. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State Tenement House Commission, in two volumes (New York:MacMillan 1903) The 1901 law did away with the air shaft, replacing it with the large courtyard for garbage storage and removal. In later structures, the introduction of elevators reduced garbage defenestration by upper-story tenants.
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The building was the site of a fire on September 7, 1884. The fire apparently started in an air shaft which terminated in the first floor apartment of Elizabeth B. Custer, the widow of General George Custer, who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn. No one was seriously injured in the fire, which spread up the air shaft to the apartments above on the second, three and fourth floors, and then to the roof.
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While Spelling was dropped down an eighty degree incline wall into a water tank. Then had to tread water, until he and Harris dove down wearing formal clothes, into the safety of an air shaft. Spelling said that they found the experience "really disorienting".
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In the morning, he decides he has to kill her in her sleep. He hits Bessie on the head with a brick before throwing her through a window and into an air shaft. He quickly realizes that the money he had taken from Mary's purse was in Bessie's pocket. Bigger runs through the city.
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The stadium began to take form in 1939 just before the war. The site chosen was a rural setting in Brimington north of Chesterfield near an old Brimington Colliery air shaft. Access to the stadium was from Station Road and then down the lane leading to Ryecroft Farm. Directly on the west side of the new track was the Chesterfield Canal.
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Eventually, an estimated of water filled the mines. Twelve mineworkers died; while 69 others escaped. Amedeo Pancotti was awarded the Carnegie Medal for climbing up the abandoned Eagle Air Shaft and alerting rescuers, which led to the safe recovery of 33 men including Pancotti himself. The bodies of the twelve who died were never recovered, despite efforts to pump the water out of the mine.
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Bond's "escape" from his cell via the air shaft, for instance, originally conceived as a ruse of Dr. No's to test Bond's skill and endurance, becomes an authentic break-out in the film. Features carried over from the novel's obstacle course, however, such as the torrent of water and scalding surface, have no logical justification in the script. Such incongruities recurred in subsequent Bond films.
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Lightwell Kamppi Center, Helsinki, 2006. The lightwell helps reduce overall energy demands. In architecture, a lightwell, light well or air shaft is an unroofed external space provided within the volume of a large building to allow light and air to reach what would otherwise be a dark or unventilated area. Lightwells may be lined with glazed bricks to increase the reflection of sunlight within the space.
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Blues singer Bessie Smith, a famous singer, lived across an air shaft from Davis' for a short time on 133rd Street. He was more interested in her earthly and racy conversations than her singing. Arthur Davis became the first black American to receive a PhD in English in 18th-century English literature from Columbia University in 1942. He began teaching at Howard University in 1944.
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Engine pit :The shaft where the pumping engine was located was often termed the "engine pit"; the second shaft sunk, during development, was termed the "bye pit". In practice the bye pit usually served as the upcast or air shaft. Engineer :In traditional terminology a mine engineer was a senior person responsible for all boilers and machinery and for supervision of the enginewrights. In Scotland an "engineer" referred to a surveyor.
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A notable instrumental feature being in the Ellington piece, "Echoes of the Jungle". For him, Duke Ellington wrote Concerto for Cootie, which when lyrics were added became "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me". He was also the soloist in other Ellington compositions like "Echoes of Harlem", "Harlem Air Shaft", and the religious piece The Shepherd Who Watches Over the Night Flock, which was dedicated to the Rev. John Gensel.
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Under attack from stormtroopers, they fight their way back to the Falcon and flee the city. Meanwhile, Luke arrives and engages Vader in a lightsaber duel that leads them over the city's central air shaft. Vader severs Luke's right hand, disarming him, and tempts him to embrace his anger and join the dark side. Luke accuses Vader of murdering his father, but Vader reveals that he is Luke's father.
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While originally a farming community, coal was soon discovered under the town. The coal mine was a major factor in the early years of the town and kept it thriving for more than half a century. The main coal mine shaft was near the intersection of Second St and the railroad. Remnants of the coal mine can still be found including an air shaft near the old grade school.
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Vince is also secretly told via a phone call to then kill Alfred. The waitress tells Alfred that Vince will try to kill him, so Alfred should kill Vince once the hit is completed. Mr. Franklyn watches from his lair, with monitors displaying camera footage of the cafe and the hitmen's hideout. Back at the train terminal, the waitress takes Bill to an abandoned air shaft, and tries to talk him into committing suicide.
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Back in the terminal, the waitress turns on Alfred, tells him that she is not infatuated with him, and shoots him dead. The janitor comes along to clean up the body. The waitress decides to help the janitor take the bodies to the top of the air shaft and drop them both into it. The janitor returns to the terminal, and enters the janitor closet, which is actually Mr. Franklyn's control centre.
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Vader cuts off Luke's right hand. With Luke cornered and defenseless, Vader goads Luke to join the dark side, revealing that he is his father. Luke casts himself into an air shaft and, after discovering that a worker has shoved his severed hand down his pants, ends up hanging on an antenna beneath the city, calling out to Ben, Leia, and Tom Selleck. Leia senses Luke's call from within the Millennium Falcon and has him rescued.
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Just as John ends his call, he discovers the hacked news coverage and notices the sniper, who then takes his shot, causing a panicked uproar both inside and outside the hospital. John is hit, but only receives a minor wound to the shoulder, though he fakes being killed to throw the police off-guard. Shortly afterwards, the sniper's leg falls through the ceiling tiles. Outraged, John rises, pulls him out of the air shaft, and beats him.
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Horrified, Luke escapes through an air shaft. Vader telepathically tells Luke that it is his destiny to join the dark side. Sebastian Shaw as the redeemed Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi (1983) In Return of the Jedi, Vader and the Emperor supervise the final stages of the second Death Star's construction. Thinking that there is still good in his father, Luke surrenders to Vader and tries to convince him to turn from the dark side.
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In the area of Brechkaut and Brechlöcher (laneways?) there were major brick kilns, and at their ends lay the hot-air shaft measuring about 2 × 3 m on which the flax was retted so that it could then be scutched and heckled. The former herdsmen's houses of the herding association have been gone since the 1950s. Listed for a time within Meddersheim's limits were five mills and one pig farm. At the Ilsberg was a quarry.
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The scenes set at the software company Eurisko were filmed in Burnaby's Metrotower complex, a building used by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The location was barely big enough for the actors to perform in after the crew had finished setting up the necessary equipment.Gradnitzer and Pittson, p.37 The scene with Dana Scully shooting the fan in the air shaft was a last minute change to the script, replacing an elevator shaft sequence that was deemed too expensive.
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For a time at the Padley end, a turbine was installed in the Burbage Brook to drive a fan. During construction a natural cavern, several hundred feet in area, was discovered and incorporated into the tunnel and a large air shaft was installed to the surface. The entrance to the cavern can be seen on the Up side (towards Sheffield) of the tunnel halfway through. Because of the damp conditions, the workforce suffered outbreaks of typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox and scarlet fever.
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Repair work on the airshaft in 2007 The Memorial consists of two distinct architectural elements, linked by a terrace of Purbeck stone. A black rectangular creeper-covered enclosure surrounds the air shaft, forming a single block. The northern face of the enclosure is kept free of creepers, and is inscribed with the police badge of office and the text "The National Police Memorial: Honouring Those Who Serve". This face also includes a vitrine in which the Roll of Honour is displayed.
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Sin escaped from Busan Penitentiary in Busan on January 20, 1997, through a bathroom ventilation shaft. He had dieted to lose weight in order to fit in the air shaft, and spent several months sawing through metal bars that blocked its outlet. He remained on the run for two years, six months, during which he committed numerous thefts and other crimes. The failure of the police to recapture Sin despite a nationwide manhunt became a public embarrassment for Korean law enforcement.
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Sixty-nine miners escaped; twelve miners died and their bodies were never recovered. The heroic efforts of one miner, Myron Thomas of Taylor, led twenty-six miners to safety. Another group of six men was led by Pacifico "Joe" Stella of Pittston. Amedeo Pancotti was part of the second group, and for his remarkable climb out of the Eagle Air Shaft (the only exit available) to the surface, he was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
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Due in part to his generous financial contributions to the facility, the New York Cancer Hospital's first wing was appropriately dedicated the "Astor Pavilion". Inspired as much by modern medical theory as by 16th-century French châteaux, the architect Charles Haight's round towers were designed to deter germs and dirt from accumulating in sharp corners, which at the time was considered a harboring ground for disease. An air shaft ran vertically through the center of each tower to prevent air from stagnating in the wards.
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Horrified, Luke drops into the air shaft and is ejected beneath the floating city, where he hangs from an antenna. He reaches out telepathically to Leia, who senses him and persuades Lando and Chewie to turn back. After Luke is brought aboard, they are chased by TIE fighters towards Vader on his Star Destroyer and find that the Falcons hyperdrive has been sabotaged, but reactivates it, allowing them to escape. Luke rejoins the Rebel fleet and his severed hand is replaced with a robotic prosthesis.
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Already in 1972, Pam Grier's character in Hit Man starred in a pornographic film she believed was a screen test for Shaft. In the British gangster film Sexy Beast, Don Logan (played by Ben Kingsley) tells Gal Dove (played by Ray Winstone) that his fake name is "Roundtree, like Smarties, like Shaft." On the TV show Seinfeld, Shaft is reported to be Elaine's favorite movie. On The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Shaft is the idol of the fictional Will Smith, and several episodes make references to the film.
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Because the New Law's required courtyard consumed more space than the 1879 law's air shaft, New Law tenements tend to be built on multiple lots or on corner lots to conserve space for dwelling units--the source of revenue for the tenement owner. A typical Lower East Side or East Village street will be lined with five-story, austerely unornamented pre-law (pre-1879) and six-story, fancifully decorated old law (pre 1901) tenements with the much bulkier grand-style New Law Tenements on the corners, always at least six stories tall.
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They entered a storage cellar under the Kommandantur (Commandant's HQ), crawled out through a narrow air shaft leading to the dry moat, and exited through the park. They split into pairs, with Reid and Wardle disguised as Flemish workmen travelling by train to Tuttlingen, near the Swiss border, via Zwickau and Munich. They crossed the border near Ramsen on the evening of 18 October. Stephens and Littledale also travelled to Tuttlingen by train, via Chemnitz, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, then followed Reid and Wardle across the border in the early hours of 20 October.
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Soil was compacted over the structure to form a mound leaving the access shaft, doubling as an airshaft, protruding above ground. At the opposite end of the building, a further air shaft was formed. Two metal pipes, one 5 inches in diameter and one 1 inch in diameter protruded from the roof and above the four-foot mound to be used with operational instruments.brandsbypost.co.uk The air vents were covered by downward-sloping louvers above ground and sliding metal shutters below ground to control air flow during contamination by radioactive fallout.
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On July 26, Union forces defeated Morgan at the Battle of Salineville and finally caught him that afternoon near West Point in Columbiana County. They were held in Wellsville, Ohio, then taken to the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus rather than to a prisoner-of-war camp, because of reports that captured Union officers had received similar treatment. Many of his enlisted men ended up in the Camp Douglas stockade in Chicago. The general and six officers made a daring escape on November 27 by tunneling from an air shaft beneath their cells into the prison yard and scaling the walls.
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To get out of the air shaft, SpongeBob molds Squidward, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs into a battering ram to bust out of the shaft, and he finally makes it out, only to find that all the customers have left after waiting for so long without getting any food. Mr. Krabs is heartbroken, but SpongeBob manages to summon all of the customers back as he sings a song called "O Krusty Krab", a parody of "O Tannenbaum". Meanwhile, Plankton finally finds the perfect opportunity to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. He fails, having been caught by Mr. Krabs.
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While duplication was finally noted as 'definitely agreed' in 1912, funding was not immediately found. However, the impending move of the engine sheds for the railway from Auckland Railway Station to the Newmarket Workshops also increased pressure to ensure the duplication. ;Construction A new tunnel, able to carry a double set of tracks, was finally built over the 1914-1915 period. The first preparatory works occurred around April 1914, widening the approaches to the tunnel, and the first air shaft connecting the two drives was pierced through in January 1915. From initially 50 people, the workforce had by then expanded to 140.
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The horse whim was replaced by an electric winder, and air shaft sunk to the workings and fitted with an electric propeller fan, a screening and crushing plant was erected, and power supplied by the Electric Supply Company Limited. The ovens were used throughout the 1930s. By 1942 several new beehive ovens had been constructed to meet the increased demand for coke for smelting purposes though the actual market for this coke remains unknown (see also Klondyke Coke Ovens). In 1945 and 1946, Klondyke and Bowen in northern Queensland were the only coke producers in Queensland, with Klondyke turning out approximately a sixth of Queensland's coke production.
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The airshaft of a dumbbell tenement, ca. 1900 Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the New York State Tenement House Act ("New Law") of 1901. The 1879 law required that every habitable room have a window opening to plain air, a requirement that was met by including air shafts between adjacent buildings. Old Law Tenements are commonly called "dumbbell tenements" after the shape of the building footprint: the air shaft gives each tenement the narrow-waisted shape of a dumbbell, wide facing the street and backyard, narrowed in between to create the air corridor.
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Flint exits the space capsule as easily as jumping out of an airplane and propels himself toward the space station using his sonic vibrator. Flint, using his all-in-one device, launches a grappling hook and manages to slide along his way across the tight ope from one roof top to another, and once again, retracting his grappling hook device, he escapes to safely via a rooftop air shaft. According to his "boss", Lloyd C. Cramden, Flint was the most undisciplined, insubordinate man he had ever had to deal with. During World War II, Cramden was Flint's senior officer and as such had the unfortunate task of trying to lead the versatile man.
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French, who was the stepson of Plymouth mine operator John Smith, operated the mine until about 1855, when the Scottish immigrant Robert Love, then a young man in his twenties, took control. Love built a gravity railroad from the mine down to the newly arrived Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad and supplied the L&B; with the first coal shipped from Plymouth by rail. By 1865, the Jersey was operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and had an estimated annual capacity of 50,000 tons. In 1871, and in accordance with laws enacted following the 1869 disaster at the adjacent Avondale mine, the DL&W; sank an X air shaft at the Jersey to help ventilate the mine.
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Shaft was born in Grenada and moved to the UK in 1968, he currently resides in Manchester. Shaft began his broadcasting career in 1978 when he joined Piccadilly Radio on a freelance basis and in 1980 he was given his own weekly programme. In 1987 he left Piccadilly and joined BBC Radio Manchester as a presenter of the weekly soul music show, it was during his first stint on Radio Manchester that Mike was offed a presenting job on television, he was one of the presenters for Open Air and was a co-presenter for two series.BBC Genome Project - Mike Shaft Open Air 11 May 1989 Soon after he began presenting episodes of Open Air, Shaft fulfilled the position of the Drivetime show on Radio Manchester.
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The WDU maintained an office in the building occupied by the Rand School of Social Science, located at 7 East 15th Street in New York City. Flynn's office was located in the Rand School building, a small back room of a larger office rented by Biedenkapp's Brotherhood of Metal Workers. The spartan room had bars over the windows and faced an enclosed air shaft, an ambiance which Flynn later recalled made her feel like she was herself in jail, fighting for her own liberty as well as the prisoners which her organization sought to liberate. In 1922 a move was made by the Brotherhood of Metal Workers and the Workers Defense Union to new facilities, located at 80 East 10th Street.
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In The Vampire Armand, Armand tells his own story of what happened in the Théâtre des Vampires leading up to Claudia's execution: Claudia offered to leave Louis if Armand could give her the body of a woman, no matter how painful or violent this effort would be. Armand agreed to Claudia's demands and decapitated her, attempting to place her head – and thus her mind – on the body of another vampire woman, believing that the healing powers of vampire blood would allow Claudia to heal herself. The attempt failed and, with Claudia near death and Armand seeing that he could rid himself of her and have Louis to himself, he simply locked her in the air shaft with Madeleine and left them both to die.
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The space between ovens was usually filled with rubble and earth to provide insulation and the whole battery surrounded by a stone retaining wall to resist the outward thrust of the brick domes. The Mihi Ovens remained in use until 1890/1 when Wright's attention was diverted a new coal development at the New Bishop Mine located nearby. It was 1908 before the site was mined again, this time by Paul Francis, a Cornish miner who had been working in the Ipswich area since the 1870s. He named his venture the Francis Mine, constructed a horse whim for hauling loaded coal skips out of his tunnel, sank an air shaft to the workings and erected bunkers of "60-tonnes capacity".
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A ventilation shaft for the Wapping Tunnel, located in Blackburne Place, Liverpool Inside of Tunnel from Kings Dock Street. The light seen is from an air shaft Tunnel portal at Kings Dock Street at the western end In the 1970s, during planning work for the Merseyrail underground in Liverpool city centre, there were two proposals to use parts of the Wapping Tunnel or Waterloo Tunnel (Victoria Tunnel) to connect Liverpool Central underground station and Edge Hill junction. During the construction of the Merseyrail network in the 1970s a part of the new tunnel south out of Central Station passed over the Wapping Tunnel at right angles. The new tunnel dropped into the upper part of the Wapping tunnel reducing its height.
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The George's Dock Building was designed by Herbert Rowse, chief architect of the Queensway tunnel, and is the most ambitious of the six buildings built to provide ventilation for the 2.1 mile long road tunnel under the River Mersey. The building stands to the east of the Port of Liverpool Building on the reclaimed George's Dock, and is bounded by the Strand to the east, Mann Island to the south, Georges Dock Way to the west and Brunswick Street, beyond which is the Cunard Building, to the north. The building takes the form of a square engine house, with extensions north and south rising five double-height storeys containing offices. Above the engine house is the air shaft, a square column rising to the height of the neighbouring Port of Liverpool building.
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The Memorial was built to a design by Lord Foster of Thames Bank and Danish designer Per Arnoldi, on the corner of The Mall and Horse Guards Road, directly outside the Old Admiralty Building. The site was occupied at the time by an air shaft on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground. The Memorial from St. James's ParkOn 22 July 2004 a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on the site, performed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Michael Winner, and officers from the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police, representing the two forces with the highest number of officers killed in the line of duty. Blue glass column of the National Police Memorial The Memorial was formally unveiled on 26 April 2005 by Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair.
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The company performed salvage and dredging work, installed navigational aids for the United States Coast Guard, and even constructed a breakwater to protect the air shaft leading from the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel to Governors Island. They also became the prime contractor assigned to remove abandoned wooden vessels for the Army Corps of Engineers, work still contracted today. In 1958, Weeks purchased their first crane to be used exclusively outside the field of stevedoring, the Weeks #500. In 1960, Weeks brought their first vessels to the fleet as two by deck barges were built by Richmond Steel for the company. In 1962, they added their first dump scow, the Weeks #250, a by vessel. Also in 1962, the Weeks Contracting Company was formed to remove limitations which might restrict the company in ventures they would choose to pursue.
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However, at the same time, Police Chief Gus Monroe, deciding that the situation has too much political blowback to give in to John's demands, overrides Grimes' command, and gives a SWAT unit permission to insert a sniper into the building via an air shaft, opting to use Denise to set John up to be killed. The police lure John into position by diverting Denise's call to a specific ER phone. John learns from Denise about Michael's name being on the recipient list and his deteriorating condition, and speaks with his son, while the sniper gets into position. Unknown to anyone, Channel 8 News anchor Tuck Lampley, who is covering the hostage situation, has his team hack the police surveillance feed and broadcasts both John's conversation with his family and the security feed on live national news.
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The building at 97 Orchard Street was contracted by Prussian-born immigrant Lukas Glockner in 1863 and was modified several times to conform with the city's developing housing laws. When first constructed, it contained 22 apartments and a basement level saloon. Over time, four stoop-level and two basement apartments were converted into commercial retail space, leaving 16 apartments in the building. Modifications over the years included the installation of indoor plumbing (cold running water, two toilets per floor), an air shaft, and gas followed by electricity. In 1935, rather than continuing to modify the building, the landlord evicted the residents, boarded the upper windows, and sealed the upper floors, leaving only the stoop-level and basement storefronts open for business. No further changes were made until the Lower East Side Tenement Museum became involved with the building in 1988.
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Most of Hair's work consists of general landscapes, especially scenes in the North East of England. His most notable work however is a set of etchings published in Views of the Collieries ... of Northumberland and Durham (1844) giving rare insights into the visual impact of early nineteenth-century coal-mining and other industrial activities. Air Shaft, Wallsend by Thomas Harrison Hair, circa 1838-1844 By the late 1830s his primary inspiration was "the unusual shapes of pit-head buildings with decorative detail of coal-trucks, locomotives and swirling smoke and steam", but his views also typically record the wider coalfield setting including the pumping engines, ponies, cranes, sailing colliers and the "drops" (staithes) used to load them. Many also take in the rural or waterside settings, Hair rendering the waste and weed-strewn spoil heaps as faithfully as the more picturesque rolling hills, ponds and water wheels favoured by his more conventional contemporaries.
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Other vital targets included key communications centers, research and development facilities for nuclear and chemical weapons, plus hardened aircraft shelters on Iraqi airfields. On the first night of the war, an F-117A dropped a 2000-pound laser-guided GBU-27 Paveway III bomb right through the roof of the general communications building in downtown Baghdad. In another attack on the communications building next to the Tigris River, another GBU-27 Paveway III was dropped through an air shaft in the center of the roof atop the building and blew out all four walls. During the first three weeks of the air offensive, F-117As obliterated many hardened targets with unprecedented precision. The 37th TFW flew 1271 combat sorties and maintained an 85.5 percent mission-capable rate. The 43 F-117As of the 37th Wing dropped more than 2,000 tons of precision ordnance and attacked some 40 percent of the high-value targets that were struck by the Coalition forces. Not one F-117A was hit, shot down, or lost to mechanical failure.
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Trumpeter Ray Nance joined, replacing Cootie Williams who had defected to Benny Goodman. Additionally, Nance added violin to the instrumental colors Ellington had at his disposal. Recordings exist of Nance's first concert date on November 7, 1940, at Fargo, North Dakota. Privately made by Jack Towers and Dick Burris, these recordings were first legitimately issued in 1978 as Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live; they are among the earliest of innumerable live performances which survive. Nance was also an occasional vocalist, although Herb Jeffries was the main male vocalist in this era (until 1943) while Al Hibbler (who replaced Jeffries in 1943) continued until 1951. Ivie Anderson left in 1942 for health reasons after 11 years, the longest term of any of Ellington's vocalists. Once more recording for Victor (from 1940), with the small groups being issued on their Bluebird label, three-minute masterpieces on 78 rpm record sides continued to flow from Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's son Mercer Ellington, and members of the orchestra. "Cotton Tail", "Main Stem", "Harlem Air Shaft", "Jack the Bear", and dozens of others date from this period. Strayhorn's "Take the "A" Train", a hit in 1941, became the band's theme, replacing "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo".
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