Does anyone know where I can get the dimensions for a gas chamber like the one at Santa Fe prison or Colorado or even San Quentin, especially for the chair. Me and some others are planning a low budget film and I want a realistic looking gas chamber for the lady who will be the our star.

 

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The floor area of the chamber is some 29.7 square feet and the volume of the chamber is some 263 cubic feet. 6.001 The lethal chamber has five gasketed windows of bullet proof glass set in riveted steel frames measuring 36" high by 25" wide.

 

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Thanks, that will give me a good idea how to make the prop for the film.

 

At San Quentin you could always tell it was over and the stuff was being vented out by the number of dead Seagulls on or near the roof

 

Yes, the later chambers had a scrubber system to neutralize the gas when it was vented, that was the 1950's design, San Quentin was 1938.

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