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  2. THE WORLD'S PROGRESS

    Messrs. Beurmann and Otto Korn, two members of the Saxony Aero Club, made a successful balloon flight of 993 miles in 40 hours last month. They started from Bresden without any ...

    Article : 190 words
  3. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 379 words
  4. HOW NIAGARA SENDS LIGHT FOR 100 MILES.

    We can see at a glance, in this picture, how Niagara Falls are harnessed. A great wall is built-out into the river to divert part of the water to what is called the fortbay. From Fern the water passes into the penstock, the huge pipe through which it falls 130ft. with terific force, turning the turbines at the bottom. The turbines, in their turn, revolve the generator, which generates the electricity. The current is carried by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
  5. EGGSHELL FOR SKIN.

    In a number of skin-grafting operations be has recently carried out, a Philauelphia physician has used the lining of eggsbells instead of human skin. One of the patients he is ...

    Article : 12 words
  6. AEROPLANE COLLIGION.

    The question of the "rule of the road" for airmen has again been raised by a serious accident which took place last month at Issy-les-Moulineaux (France). ...

    Article : 184 words
  7. ADVANCE IN NAVAL AERONAUTICS.

    Lieutenant Samson's flight from the deck of his Majesty's ship Africa, lying at anchor off Sheerness (Eng.), recently, is noteworthy and the tangible evidence it affords of the nascent ...

    Article : 235 words
  8. MESSAGE WRITTEN IN MONOPLANE

    The entire future of aviation is centred in the one word—stability. Among all modes of locomotion aerial navigation alone is deep[?] affected by the problem of stability, which is ...

    Article : 602 words
  9. THE DREADNOUGHT ERA.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 words
  10. ELECTRIC LIGHTING TO BE POPULARISED.

    To popularise lighting and heating by electricity various place are being tried by foreign electric stations. In Bremen a limited current is offered to small users making it practicable ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. NOVEL AND INTERESTING INVENTIONS.

    This is a cooling apparatus for fever patients comprising a cooling pipe or hose, adapted to be placed adjacent to the body of a person, a smaller section to pass around the head sad ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  12. CURE FOR LABOR STRIFE.

    Sir W. P. Hartley, the English jam manufacturer, on the subject of co-partnership, says:— "I do not say that profit sharing is a cure for all labor troubles: but the spirit of it is ...

    Article : 44 words
  13. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    Last year 1259 lives were lost in British coal mines in 1206 separate accidents. The number of deaths shows a decrease of 516, and the number of accidents a decrease of thirty-six, ...

    Article : 49 words
  14. FELT HATTERS' STRIKE SETTLEMENT.

    Work was resumed at the felt hat mills in the Melbourne metropolitan area last week, as the employees who had been on strike accepted proposals made by the employers. A meeting ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. LOYALTY REWARDED.

    A special general meeting of the Mount Lyell branch of the Amalgamated Mine Employees' Association was held last week to deal with several matters. The chief was the method of ...

    Article : 91 words
  16. POLICEMEN GET 9/2 PER WEEK.

    The police of the Hungarian town of Szilagy have struck work in order to obtain an increase in their pay, which at present amounts to 9/2 a week. State gendarmerie have been sent ...

    Article : 40 words
  17. END OF THE ADELAIDE BREWERY TROUBLE.

    The trouble which had existed in connection with the liquor trade of Adelaide was settled last week. On Wednesday a conference was held by the representatives of the licensed ...

    Article : 45 words
  18. A CURIOUS LIVELIHOOD.

    For obtaining £15 by pretending that he fell over the coal shoot in front of the house and was badly injured, Samuel Harman, a hawker, was sentenced at the Old Balley, London, to ...

    Article : 32 words
  19. YEAR'S SHIPPING LOSSES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 words
  20. RURAL WORKERS TO AMALGAMATE.

    At the recent conference of the Australian Workers' Union in Sydney a request was considered from the Rural Workers' Union for the amalgamation of the two organisations, so that ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. WIRE TOOL-HOLDERS.

    An ingenious arrangement for attaching tools to a belt is shown. It comprises a series of spring clips, made from one piece of wire, riveted to a thin metal band which may be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  22. 40 POSTS—100,000 APPLICANTS.

    The post of tax collector would seem to be popular in France, judging from the fact that there are more than 100,000 applicants for the 49 vacancies at present offered. ...

    Article : 13 words
  23. WOMEN WORKERS AS IMMIGRANTS.

    It was announced last week that in order to try to meet the difficulty which is being experienced in securing women operatives from England to fill the vacant places in Victorian ...

    Article : 30 words
  24. THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.

    Half the things we use nowadays are limitations. A "stone" fireplace, for instance, might not be stone at all, but an American fire-proof composition made of chemically-treated sawdust. Sawdust is also used in the making of some so-called brandied in place of grape-juice. "Ivory" plane keys and buttons may be made from potatoes, and the "silk" dress from wood-pulp. Even the maid's cotton dress ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
  25. HOW WAGES ARE HANDED OVER IN A BIG BUSINESS.

    The paying of workpeople in the case of big concerns has now been made a most simple matter. To-day it is possible to pay from three to four thousand workpeople in a quarter ...

    Article : 398 words
  26. PARIS BALLET STRIKE.

    There was no ballet at Opera House one night last month. After the curtain went down on the last act of "Monna Vanna" the audience waited for the three knocks on the stage ...

    Article : 51 words
  27. PROCESS FOR PRESERVING CORN.

    A process of preserving corn, considered by its inventor to be worthy of patent, is shown. it is a method of hermetically sealing corn bucks while on the car, and consists in ty[?]ag ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 65 words
  28. 10,247,100 WORK DAYS LOST.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 words
  29. FOOD PRICES.

    The average of wholesale prices in 1911 (says the British "Board of Trade Labor Gasette"), was the highest since 1884, being 109.3, as compared with 100 in 1900. The ...

    Article : 32 words
  30. CURE FOR IDLENESS.

    The exploitation of poor relief by work[?]y people and by those who seek to evade the duty of supporting their families, will be dealt with in Germany in a bill which has already been ...

    Article : 24 words
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