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  2. NOVEL AND INTERESTING INVENTIONS.

    The flame from the lighter shown in this illustration, a recent American patent, shooting in four directions, will ignite any one or all of the four burners of the gas stove, by simply ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 96 words
  3. AN ACCOUNT COUNTER.

    The total number of accounts in a banking business must be counted and tallied occasionally, as well as the number of cheques. which is a tedious task. The time of doing this. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 90 words
  4. THE WORLD'S PROGRESS

    The German transatlantic liner Imperator, the largest vessel yet launched, will be driven at 22[?] knota per hour by turbines. One of the immense rotors weighs 135 tons, contains 50,000 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  5. ELECTRIC AID IN CLIMBING BRIDGE APPROACHES.

    A novel scheme was recently exhibited at Cologne, Germany, in a competition of plans for a new bridge. It was felt desirable to construct a high-level ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 110 words
  6. EMPIRE'S NEGLECT OF OIL.

    Great Britain's dependence on foreign countries for liquid fuel in time of war is emphasised in remarkable fashion by a comparative table published in the recent. "Exhibition ...

    Article : 334 words
  7. SCALE TELLS PROPORTIONS FOR MIXING.

    The latest means of quickly solving the problem of mixing so many parts of one substance with so many of another—as in the making of cement—is a weighing machine which calculates ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 134 words
  8. NOZZLE THAT THROWS STREAM AT ANGLES.

    A now fire made has been devised for the purpose of throwing a stream of water at a right angle, or also in a cone, toward the rear of the discharge. At the mouth of the nozzle is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 125 words
  9. RAILWAY SAND TANK SUPPLY CARS.

    The Chicago City Railway operates two specially constructed cars for the delivery sand to the supply boxes from which the train crews all the sand boxes on the cars. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 114 words
  10. WEATHER GAUGE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 words
  11. SUCTION OF LINERS.

    Professor A. H. Gibson, of University College, Dundee, and Mr. J. Hannay Thompson, general manager of the Dundee Harbor Trust, submitted a joint paper on "suction between ...

    Article : 302 words
  12. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 words
  13. OIL FUEL REPLACING COAL.

    The rapid development of the oil engine was the subject of a lecture at the Oil Industrial Exhibition in London, recently. The lecturer said that there was no class of work where the ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. "SYNTHETIC RUBBER TYRES."

    Two excellent specimens of rubber tyres, one a heavy 5½-inch and the other a 4-inch tyre, were unrolled recently before a gathering of the world's chemists in New York by Dr. Carl ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    Between 1000 and 1500 men recently lost employment in London by reason of the police prohibition of street distribution of circulars within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. A ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. VOCATIONS OF ELDEST SONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 392 words
  17. FAMILY OF 13 LIVE ON 12/ A WEEK.

    How to live happily and bring up a large family on only 8/6 a week—this is a problem that has been triumphantly solved by an aged Essex (Eng.) couple, who recently celebrated ...

    Article : 488 words
  18. PRESIDENT TAFT ON SOCIALISM.

    President Taft's views on Socialism are given in the October number of the "Century Magacine," "as reported by Charles Dewey Hilles, chairman of the Republican National ...

    Article : 379 words
  19. EXHAUST GAS DIRECTED AGAINST FLYWHEEL.

    Of the many devised to utilise the exhaust of gas engines, the method applied in the so-called "compound gas engine" seems particularly interesting. In this engine the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
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    CHART OF THE WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 9 words
  21. 300 MILES FOR 1/1.

    The British railway, companies issue some fairly cheap tickets nowadays, but the honor of having the cheapest railway ride in the world undoubtedly falls to a man living at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 194 words
  22. BE IN THE VAN OF PROGRESS

    IF YOU ARE NOT A REGULAR READER OF "THE GLOBE" WHAT ABOUT WRITING OUT AN ORDER FORM RIGHT AWAY? ...

    Article : 22 words
  23. Advertising

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    Advertising : 459 words
  24. RAILWAY MEN TRUST TO CONCILIATION.

    Syndicalism received a crushing blow recently at the annual meeting in Dublin of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, when a resolution to give notice to terminate the ...

    Article : 144 words
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