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  2. INVENTION

    The illuminated lift threshold is a new means to prevent what is a quite common form of lift accident. The lift man, making hundreds of stops in the course of a ...

    Article : 180 words
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  4. TRADE

    It has been decided to hold a Mining and Colliery Exhibition in the City Hall, Manchester, from October 16 to 30, 1911. The intention of the promoters is to make ...

    Article : 136 words
  5. TRAVEL

    In Birmingham, by the aid of what is called a model French garden, an attempt is being made to show townspeople how they may grow vegetables on hotbeds ...

    Article : 68 words
  6. SCIENCE.

    Professor Arnold, of Sheffield, recently entered a protest against the tendency, which has been very marked in recent years, towards naming technical ...

    Article : 118 words
  7. MOSQUITO—PROOF VESSELS.

    Following upon a series of experiments in safeguard the health of will to workers in the tropics, Messrs. John Holt and Co., Limited, of Liverpool, are now building ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. SIGHT TESTS FOR THE MERCANTILE MARINE.

    The British Board of Trade are about to appoint a small Departmental Committee to advise them as to what changes, If any, appear advisable in the system of ...

    Article : 89 words
  9. REPAIRING A LEAK IN A STEAM OR WATER PIPE.

    A pinhole will occasionally cause a leak in a steam or water pipe, after the piping has been put up and perhaps been in use for a considerable time. It can be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 142 words
  10. SUNSPOTS AND EARTH TEMPERATURES.

    Dr. W. J. Humphreys, of the United Slates Weather Bureau, has recently summarised the conclusions which have been reached concerning the relation of changes ...

    Article : 236 words
  11. RUINS OF CONCRETE.

    At last archcologists have advanced a reasonable theory regarding the immense ruins in Mexico and Control America which testify to the remarkable ...

    Article : 127 words
  12. AN OLD INDUSTRY.

    An industry or art that seems to have reached us unchanged from the ancient Egyptians and Crocks is that of beating gold into thin foll for decorative ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. A TOOL FOR CENTREING WORK IN A LATHE.

    The accompanying drawing shows a handy too for centreing work in a lathe chuck. When a job is to br faced off it requires a little time to get it to run ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 171 words
  14. NEW WHITE PEOPLE DISCOVERED.

    For many years there have been rumors of a strange white race in South America. There have been legends that they live in a hidden E1 Dorado or Golden city, and ...

    Article : 164 words
  15. MAKING SHUNTING SAFE

    Mr. George Proudfoot, who has been most of his life connected with railway construction and development in Ila and New Zealand, but now of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 308 words
  16. RELIGION

    The Rev. William Hechler, for 25 years chaplain to the English colony in Vienna, on retiring has been presented with a testimonial and a purse of gold from his ...

    Article : 37 words
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  18. AERONAUTICS

    Mr. Curtlss' flight from Albany to New York has added to the popularity of aeronautics. Large prizes are being offered for races to Washington, to St. ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. POLITICS AND RELIGION.

    Lord Kinnaird, addressing the Y.M.C.A. Secretaries' Conference in London, last month, spoke of the necessity for keeping politics out of their association. They ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. MEXICAN FERRY CANOES.

    Although Mexico has hundreds of miles of railroads and street railways with modern equipment, a large percentage of the population, especially in the more isolated ...

    Article : 158 words
  21. AEROPLANE MOVES THROUGH BERLIN STREETS.

    A Berlin Journal stales that the new Grawert aeroplane, a special feature of which is its power of locomotion on the ground, was driven through Berlin last ...

    Article : 92 words
  22. PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS.

    Messrs. Griffith and Hassel. Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 234 words
  23. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

    After nearly 20 years of service as general secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge the Rev. Osborn Allen has resigned, and at a farewell ...

    Article : 87 words
  24. WRIGHT BROTHERS' PATENTS.

    A decision of vital importance to the future of flying has been rendered in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, which has dissolved the injunction granted ...

    Article : 103 words
  25. THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF THE SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION.

    Lieutenant Evans, second in command of the Terra Nova (Capt. Scott's Polar ship). In an interview with an English pressman, said: "I have often been asked where is ...

    Article : 178 words
  26. THE SALVATION ARMY IN INDIA.

    Mrs. Booth Tucker, addressing a gathering at Regent Hall, London, one Sunday last month, said that the Salvation Army had 2100 Indian officers, and a thousand taught. Commissioner Booth Tucker followed by saying that the Army were taking over and converting numbers of thieves, for they believed it to be a good ...

    Article : 96 words
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  28. TRAINING BRITISH ARMY AIRMEN.

    Excellent progress is being made at the Government's airship and balloon factory at Farnborough with the training of a special corps of military airmen. The idea ...

    Article : 261 words
  29. MONEY

    At a London auction room a beautifully marked egg of the Great Auk, the very finest of its type, was put up for sale, last month. It formed part of a natural ...

    Article : 91 words
  30. THE BUDGET OF [?]

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 words
  31. SEAMEN AND AIRMEN.

    The International Aerial Navigation Conference has been opened in Paris, and it is an indication of the serious way in which the authorities at home recognise ...

    Article : 371 words
  32. BEAUTY'S FAVORITE.

    The article which excels all others in improving the beauty of the skin is naturally and deservedly beauty's favorite. This has been the acknowledged and honored position held by ...

    Article : 76 words
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