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  3. SCIENCE.

    Blast-furnace slag waste, of which there are millions of tons at present disfiguring the face of the country, especially in the West of Scotland, is we understand, being ...

    Article : 60 words
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  5. THE PIPES OF A LINER.

    In a big Atlantic liner there are over l000 tons of piping of various kinds. The boiler tubes, if placed end to end, would stretch about ten miles, the condenser tubes over 25 ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. NEW POSTAL INVENTION.

    A Berlin engineer is busy perfecting an invention for delivering letters in big buildings on the lift principle. A letter-box is fitted, in a frame by means of hinges fixed at the ...

    Article : 115 words
  7. ASTRONOMICAL WATCH.

    A Coventry firm has produced an astronomical watch showing the various functions of the heavenly bodies. By its aid it is possible to tell what constellations are visible at any ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. SEEING BY WIRE.

    Two Danes, the brothers Andersen, already known as inventors, have invented an apparatus by the use of which it is possible to see what is going on at the other end of a ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. STEAM OR ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.

    Whether railways shall use steam or electricity is a problem that Professor W. E. Dalby, an engineering authority, believes must be determined by the speed desired. For ...

    Article : 208 words
  10. SNAILS AS FOOD AND MEDICINE.

    According to Pliny, a certain Fulvius Hirpinus first instituted snail preserves at Tarquinium. about 50 B.C. He bred several varieties, some of which came from Africa, while ...

    Article : 414 words
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