Articles from page 7: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 252 words
  3. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 350 words
  4. LOVE AT HOME.

    A little girl was lost on the street, and was brought into the police station. The officers tried in every way to learn her name. Finally one of the ...

    Article : 62 words
  5. THE DEATH OF DR. P. H. HISS, JUNIOR.

    Dr. Philip Hanson Hiss jun., professor of bacteriology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, died recently in New ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. IN TRAINING.

    A well-known doctor told at a luncheon an anti-suffrage anecdote. "Two suffragists," he said, "were talking one evening at the club over a ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. PIECE OF ROPE WRECKS THE "LUSITANIA."

    The "Lusitania" has the telemotor system of steering gear, in which the movements of the steering wheel in the pilot house are transmitted ...

    Article : 147 words
  8. WHY THEY SMILED.

    One evening at the Eastern Star Fair, one of the fattest members sat down to rest her weary feet for a moment. Every one who passed by ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. BIDS FOR BUILDING THE "PENNSYLVANIA."

    Of the three best bids for the construction of the U.S. latest battleship the "Pennsylvania"—the largest ship authorise or under construction— ...

    Article : 150 words
  10. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

    An excursion party from a woman's club had gone to the country. As there was only one very small hotel in the neighborhood, some of the ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. THE WORLD OF SCIENCE

    A table has recently been put on the market which is of the ordinary library type, but is also provided with four or more outlets or plug sockets ...

    Article : 151 words
  12. FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEAM TURBINE GENERATOR.

    A distinguished British electrical engineer announces some very promising experiments in obtaining higher efficiency for the steam turbine, so ...

    Article : 129 words
  13. SPARKLESS BELL SYSTEM FOR MINES.

    Telephone apparatus is likely to be dangerous in mines where fire damp occurs, not from any sparking in the microphone, as this appears to be ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. THE PNEUMATIC TYPEWRITER.

    An inventor is now working upon a principle where phonetic sounds can be recorded upon strips of paper. A man, for example, will call in his ...

    Article : 388 words
  15. IN LIGHTER VEIN

    The University of Oxford long elected its members of Parliament, not by ballot, but by oral or "viva voce" vote. In 1865 Mr. Gladstone, who had sat for ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. TEMPTING.

    Upton Sinclair, at a vegetarian banquet, said of a certain charity:—"It's got a big income, a sumptuous suite of offices, and a very highly-paid ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. LONG RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING.

    Long-range forecasting, on long discredited by scientific men, appears to be gaining respectability, little by little, with the progress of ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. MAKING NICKEL TUBES ELECTROLYTICALLY.

    Nickel tubes and other objects are made by the new Ed. Levi process, as it allows of obtaining a thick deposit of nickel in a special plating bath. An ...

    Article : 179 words
  19. PHOTO OF A METEOR.

    A remarkable photograph of a meteor trail is published in the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of France, having been previously published in ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. DIMMED THE LUSTRE.

    A late nobleman, in whose character vanity and parsimony were the most remarkable features, was, for a long time before he died, in the habit of ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. TRANSFORMERS IN THE LAMP SOCKETS.

    The new German method of using a miniature transformer in each lamp socket has the advantage of allowing the use of a low-voltage metallic ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. AN AUTOMOBILE FOR FORDING RIVERS.

    In order to meet with, the rigid requirements of some of the British colonies in respect to motor cars which can be taken anywhere and ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. STEREOPTICON VIEWS IN NATURAL COLORS.

    Following the giving of popular magic lantern shows in natural colors in Paris last summer, which was made possible by the autochrome process of ...

    Article : 278 words
  24. CHINESE LOGIC.

    Another instance of the topsyturvy way of doing things in China is told by a Bishop of Foochow. A gentleman entered a Chinese shop ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. IMPROVEMENTS IN CARBURETERS.

    It is a pretty well acknowledged fact that the action of many of the carbureters at present on the market is not all it might be from the point of ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. AUTOMATIC FOG GUN.

    An automatic fog gun is now being put to active service on the Clyde. The invention consists of a method of obtaining powerful explosions of a ...

    Article : 293 words
  27. BISMARCK THE MAN.

    Bismarck is always thought or as the Iron Chancellor, who cemented the German States into one Empire with the blood of German soldiers shed in ...

    Article : 484 words
  28. IN RESTORING ELASTICITY TON CAOUTCHOUC.

    Caoutchouc, which, has a tendency to grow hard from exposure to the air, may have its elasticity restored, according to "La Revue," by merely ...

    Article : 110 words
  29. A BACK GREEN DRAMA.

    Pride in one of its most admirable manifestations, that of Self respect, characterises the, following serio-comic story. ...

    Article : 86 words
  30. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 18 words
  31. THE TALKING AND MOVING PICTURE MACHINE.

    News has come to hand that the Edison Kinetophone has been exhibited for the first time in public on the stages of four ...

    Article : 226 words
  32. ONE-MAN BROADSIDE CONTROL.

    Vice-Admiral Sir percy Scott, the famous gunnery expert, has invented, and the British Admiralty, after long and severe trial, has adopted an ...

    Article : 700 words
  33. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 31 words
  34. RURAL DECLINE.

    An American traveller returned from rural England brought over a ing bit of theory regarding the modern sliding scale of class distinction. ...

    Article : 85 words
  35. SEWAGE PURIFICATION BY ELECTRICITY.

    Electrolysis as an aid to sewage purification is a rather recent development and much more is to be expected from it. Oklahoma City has ...

    Article : 200 words
  36. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 150 words
  37. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 8 words
  38. FIXING INDIA INK.

    The composition of India ink—a mixture of ivory-black and a colloidal substance such as fish-glue, causes drawings, diagrams or designs made ...

    Article : 101 words
  39. THE NEW FRENCH CHRONOLOGY.

    The use of the new 24-hour time system in France is likely to give rise to some rather curious results. One of these is brought out by A. De. ...

    Article : 173 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$