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  2. TO PREVENT COAL-STACKS FIRING.

    the pipes protruding from a stack of coal, shown in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  3. NOVEL AND INTERESTING INVENTIONS.

    An ingenious chair, designated as a "dressing" chair, is shown in the accompanying illustration. Beneath the wicker seat, which can be swung up against the back. is a receptacle for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  4. THE WORLD’S PROGRESS

    When a submarine cable breaks, the following ingenious ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 109 words
  5. ELECTRICITY v. BRAWN ON THE FARM.

    A recent demonstration in the United States of the economies ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  6. A BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE THAT WORKS.

    With characteristic thoroughness the Germans have devised a real burglar-proof safe, so eleverly designed that it will baffle even the burglars who work with the latest of oxygen and ...

    Article : 27 words
  7. ELECTRICITY IN BREAD MAKING.

    The electric motor drive lends itself especially well to the operation of the modern bakery, says a scientific exchange. In the making of bread, cake and biscuit, cleanliness and ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. NEW AEROLOGICAL STATION IN GERMANY.

    Germany, which already possesses a far greater number of institutions for the exploration of the upper air than any other country is [?] have a new one, at Rostock. That city has ...

    Article : 22 words
  9. TELEPHONE TRAIN DISPATCHING.

    Experience with telephone train dispatching on certain railroads in the Southern States of the American Union indicates a saving by enabling the trains to proceed more rapidly says ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. CANADIUM A NEW METAL.

    "Canadium" is the name given a new metal discovered by A. G. French, metallurgical chemist of Nelson, British Columbia, when investigating a large gold mine in that province. ...

    Article : 32 words
  11. HEAVIEST BATTLESHIPS.

    The "Toxas," the heaviest and most powerful battleship yet put afloat, was launched recently from the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company. Mr. Meyer, Secretary of the ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. A CONVERTIBLE BIPLANE AND MONOPLANE.

    This biplzne, which is the latest product of a famous concern of French automoblie manufacturers and which resembles the Bragust in its general form, is unique in that means are provided for converling it into a monoplane, the same fuselage, power plant and alig[?]ling near being made to serve the dual use. As seen in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  13. IMPROVED AUTO STEERING WHEEL.

    An auxiliary steering appliance, attached to the main steering apparatus for a motor-car is here illustrated. It is so arranged that the driver can actuate, it with one or both legs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  14. A NEW GUN.

    The Russian horse artillery is now being rearmed with a new gun made by Messrs. Schneider, of Creusoi, with a carriage of a type never employed for field artillery. It has a ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. PHOSPHORESCENT BAIT.

    It is stated that fishermen of Cezimbo, Portugal, have a somewhat moved method of catching fish by the use of a natural phosphorescent substance. This is obtained from a ...

    Article : 46 words
  16. ELECTRICITY IN COAST DEFENCE.

    In the reform of the United States coast defence after the Spanish war, the generation and distribution of electric power at the harbor fortifications and its application for the ...

    Article : 132 words
  17. BOTTLED GAS FOR HOME USE.

    Dr. Walter O. Shelling, consulting chemist of the United States Bureau of Mines and of the Panama Canal Commission, now doing laboratory work in Washington, has developed a liquid ...

    Article : 39 words
  18. ELECTRIC SMELTING OF TIN.

    Preliminary tests and more extended investigations in Cornwalls with an electric blast furnace fitted with three carbon electrodes and supplied with current at 30 to 60 volts show a ...

    Article : 39 words
  19. A BICYCLE GATE.

    This picture shows an ingenious device for the passage of a bicycle through a gate or stile. The machine is simply pushed through, and the owner walks round by the swing gate and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  20. ILLUMINATING SHELL.

    Both the Russians and the Japanese have realised the importance of night attacks in modern warfare, says an exchange, and the necessity for enabling well-aimed rifle fire to be ...

    Article : 35 words
  21. APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING RUBBER.

    An interesting apparatus for collecting rubber by means of suction is shown. A tube designed to be spirally wrapped around the trunk of a tree, is punctured at short intervals with ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 98 words
  22. GLAES PAVING BLOCKS FAIL.

    Many of us, says an exchange will recall the interest which existed a few years age in the subject of the use of glass for paying blocks an interest which was out of all proportion to ...

    Article : 25 words
  23. MAKING CLOTH FROM SEAWEED.

    The Bureau of Manufactures in Washington (U.S.A.) recently received samples of cloth made in England, by a process recently perfected` from the fibre of "Posidonia Australis" a ...

    Article : 28 words
  24. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    Mr. T. W. Bowles, who has just retired from the position of stationmaster at Addington, N.Z. (reporis a local paper), received a presentation in the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce on ...

    Article : 77 words
  25. MANY ENGLISH WORKERS HAVE FIRST HALF-HOLIDAY LAST MONTH.

    Though the British Shops Act adversely affects some classes, though as a legal instrument it has many imperfections. It stands to-day the charter of many thousands of British shop ...

    Article : 185 words
  26. BEFORE AND AFTER.

    THE TOP PORTION OF THE PICTURE SHOWS THE LODGING HOUSES FOR WORKING MEN AT DEPTFORD BEFORE THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL DEMOLISHED THEM, ERECTING IN THEIR PLACE CARRINGTON HOUSE (SHOWN IN TE BOTTON SECTION). A MUNICIPAL HOTEL WHICH ACCOMMODATED 500 MEN HIGHTLY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 45 words
  27. 116,516 RAILWAY UNIONISTS.

    The financial statement of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (Gre[?] Britain) for 1911 shows that while the membership has increased from 75,153, to 116.516—a rise of 41,363 ...

    Article : 42 words
  28. RECOVERY FROM THE COAL STRIKE.

    The English Board of Trade "Labor Gazette" for May says employment showed a satisfactory recovery in April from the effects of the coal strike, and at the end of the month had ...

    Article : 149 words
  29. SWISS CARE OF INDIGENT.

    In Switzerland the people act upon the theory that a man who is unemployed is, it left to himself, liable to become a waste by being a subject of charity and a tax upon the ...

    Article : 150 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 195 words
  31. HEROES OF THE ENGINE ROOM.

    Mr. F. J. Blake, R.N.R., Superintendent of the White Star Line at Southampton, made a statement recently as to the duties and stations allotted to the engineers on board a liner in the ...

    Article : 273 words
  32. LABOR-SAVING MACHINES.

    Probably in no sphere has invention been more active than in the production of aids to the business man, says a London exchange. When the first English Business Exhibition took ...

    Article : 193 words
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