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  2. NOVEL AND INTERESTING INVENTIONS.

    The fact that the filaments of Tungsten lamps are very brittle, and therefore liable to breakage from the slightest shocks, has led a French concern to devise the shock-absorbing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 45 words
  3. EXPERIMENTAL TANKS FOR SHIP MODELS.

    Not a little of the success of the ships of a large German ship-owing company is attributed to experimental work with ship models in tanks at Bremerhaven. Every naval country ...

    Article : 265 words
  4. THE WORLD'S PROGRESS

    A passenger coach of the type used for general purpose on the railway in India, but provided with a 25-h.p. gasoline engine as a self-contained means of motive power. Is used ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  5. THE AERIAL WAR ARM.

    The first biplane to be used by the Balkan Allie [?] in the operations about Adrianoble. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  6. COMBINED SHIRT AND PANTALOONS.

    A shirt combined with pantaloons is shown. The arrangements is novel, and one that may be found practical for dress shirts. It would, at least, prevent the stiffly starched front of such ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  7. ADVENT OF THE CYCLE-CAR.

    The advent of the cycle-car was one of the most interesting features of the third annual show of the Cycle and Motor—Cycle Union, which opened recently in London at Olympia. The ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. GERMAN TRACK-PLANERS.

    A track-planer of ingenious type, constructed in Germany is shown in the accompanying illustration. The planers, which are mounted on a light four-wheeled truck, are ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  9. PATENT ICELESS COOLER.

    This is a device which requires no ice, and yet keeps butter milk, fruit, etc, cool and fresh for considerable periods. It was recently invented by Mr. Harford, of Arncliffe, Sydney, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 183 words
  10. RAILWAY COURTESY REWARDED.

    Sir Gerald Strickland Governor-Designate of New South Wales, has initiated a new departure in gubernatorial recognition of the railway service by sending a New Year's cheque to the West ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. WHEEL-DRIVEN AUTO-JACK.

    Among the recent numerous automobile accessories adapted to relieve the autoist of much of his hard labor is an air-pump which derives its power from one of the rear wheels by means ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 55 words
  12. BIPLANE THAT CAN RUN HALF-SPEED.

    Maurice Farman, the French airman and aeroplans builder, has brought out a new biplane, the distinguishing feature of which is that the control is so simplified and so accurate ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 121 words
  13. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 words
  14. INVENTOR OF TELEPHONE DEAD.

    In Charles Bourseul there died recently at Paris, at the age of eight-three, poor and unknown, the first discoverer of the principle of the telephone. His claim to this distinction was ...

    Article : 70 words
  15. TRANS-CASPIAN RAILROAD PROPOSED.

    A group of Russian financiers are endeavoring to promote a trans-Caspian railroad, to connect the lines of Russian and Indian companies. The length of line under discussion ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. ELECTRICALLY-OPERATED BATTER-MIXER

    An ingenious batter beater, electrically operated, is shown 5in the accompanying, illustration. The motor operates a vertically-placed friction dise, against which a wheel on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 138 words
  17. PRICE OF BREAD FOR 111 YEARS.

    There was issued as a Parliamentary Paper in England last month a return showing for every year from 1800 to 1910, inclusive, the current price of British wheat per quarter, the ...

    Article : 408 words
  18. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    The "Central Labor College" at Earl's Court. London, founded a while back as a result of the students strike at Ruskin College, Oxford, is now in its turn an scene of discord. The ...

    Article : 255 words
  19. 30,000 RAILWAY MEN HAVE THEIR WAGES RAISED.

    The Board of Arbitration appointed to consider the controversy between thirty thousand engineers and fifty-two railways east of Chicago (U.S.A.), and north or Norfolk and ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. APPLIED SCIENCE.

    Students of the Birmingham University receiving lessons in mine recoup work. the breathing apparatus is tested in a smoky atmosphere, and an the right they are seen with breathing apparatus fixed, but without their goggies. They are now ready to enter the experimental mine with the dummy miner. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  21. CROWDED ENGLAND.

    Emigration to the Dominions as a partial remedy to the overcrowding of England was advocated by Mr. Harold Cox before the Dominions Royal Commission last month in London. He ...

    Article : 259 words
  22. TO ARREST MILLIONAIRES.

    For some time the American authorities have been keeping an eye on the vendors of the innumerable "quack" productions which have been placed upon the market. So long as they ...

    Article : 157 words
  23. CAPITAL AND LABOR.

    Sir Felix Schuster presided at the sixth annual dinner of the Institute of Directors in London recently. Viscount St. Aldwyn proposed "The Institute of Directors." He said ...

    Article : 338 words
  24. ONE HUNDRED ONE-EYED WORKMEN.

    "There are over 100 one-eyed men employed at the works of Messrs. Vickers." said a solicitor to the judge at the Barrow-in-Furness County Court (Eng.)recently. This fact was ...

    Article : 226 words
  25. A SCIENTIST ON STRIKES.

    Lord Avebury writes to the London "Daily Telegraph":—"Few, if any, will deny—and not even, I think, the leaders of our trade unions themselves—that the unrest of labor and the ...

    Article : 331 words
  26. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 115 words
  27. A RISE WHICH WAS NOT OBTAINED.

    Not a little of the success of the ships of a large German shipx-owning company is attrlbuted to experimental work with ship models in tanks at Bremerhaven. Every naval country ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
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