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1823 Sept. 25
Constitutional Code 2. Enactive
Ch.16 Ministers severally
Conversation Tube
Note 11
11. Speed of Communication
between Office and Office
Convenient the having
Prime Minister and
the other Offices under
one roof: Prime's
controul; the others ro
By Conversation Tubes
each might then confer
with every other without
quitting his chair: time
in going to and fro thus
saved
Such Tubes, fitting to
any high line by
been made in England
Without source of view
the writer concerned
through a for experiment
through a tube
400 the 300 foot long
Justice Ministers
Office should be rather
be remote than near
Between Administration
and Judiciary the
less the
communication the
better
In U. S. under same
roof are Presidents residence
and the other
Offices: Capitol the
name of the whole
Construction not circular
nor polygono-circular:[+]
[+] Conversation Tubes : Departments but 4:.1. State.2. Treasury: 3. War. 4 Navy.See Plant a National Calendar for 1821 |
11
Note to Ch. IX - Ch X §.12.
LocalSpeed of Communication between Office and Office
It would be no small a great convenience, if the Office of the Prime Minister and the Offices belonging
to the several SubDepartments were all under the same roof.
In this case, if the situation in the Prime Ministers Office
were central, the others forming a ring around round it, a set of
Conversation-tubes would enable the Prime Minster to confer
with each and each of the, even in as far as there
were any , each of them with
every any other, without
rising out of their chairs: and this the time ordinarily
spent in going to and fro would thus be saved Tubes adaptedapplicable
to this purpose, by fitting one into another to any length have
long been made in London and elsewhere in England.
He who writes this held conversation once, on and without any strain of voice conversed without diffica without difficulty
th with a person through a tube of nearer four hundred
then three hundred foot in length. The experiment was instituted
for the by him, with a view to a purpose such as that.
As to Tthe Office of the Justice Minister, this should rather be
remote from, them contiguous to the above-mentioned cluster of
Offices. Between the Administration Department and the Judiciary
the less the communication the better.
Note **
In the United States the Offices belonging to the Sub departments,
together with the residence of the Prime Minister, stiled President are
under the same roof: the whole edifice being stiled the Capitol [+] For the designation of the several
of the Departments, th
are but four denomination
and no more are there employed:
namely 1. State. 2. Treasury.
3. War. 4. Navy.
But neither have the the anno circular pl is nor the quasi circular (polygonal
polygonocircular plan of construction been employed: nor, for might
appears, the Conversation Tubes.[+] See the Plans in From "The
"National Calendar" for 1821. |