How the Deaf Learn to Play Music
The New York Institution for the Deaf in Newark teaches deaf students to play music starting with drums to develop rhythm, then bugles and valve instruments, advancing to melody instruments like cornets and trombones. Professor Redfield argues music offers enjoyment and can sharpen attention to sound, potentially aiding gradual hearing improvement.
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New York Institution For the Deaf
Newark
Scientific American
John Redfield
Physics of Music
Columbia University
Professor Redfield
Redfield
Banana Stalks Promoted as Skin Disease Cure
A London writer in Tit-Bits reports experiments using banana stalks to treat skin diseases. Sufferers claim cure from the banana based treatment, suggesting waste stalks become a medical remedy in ongoing trials.
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London
Golf Tee Practise and Inventions Across Time
A scattered survey covers a golf tee for practice and a toothpaste dispenser device by Titian W. Johnson, plus a collapsible dining set by Harry A. Bubb. It also notes banana stalks revitalized by ultraviolet light for vitamins and therapeutic uses, including wartime boot cleaning refers to banana skins.
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Flanders
Scotland
Harry A. Bubb
Monroe
Beryllium the Wonder Metal Promises Major Weight Reduction
A Cleveland scientist Hugh S. Cooper develops beryllium a light one third lighter than aluminum with steel like strength. Pure beryllium is dark gray polished and hard enough to resist scratches yet brittle requiring alloying with aluminum copper or iron. Airplane engines could be built lighter reducing weight by half.
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Hugh S. Cooper
Cleveland
Diving spider builds underwater home in air filled bell
The underwater dwelling spider forms a delicate abdominal web at the surface, dives with an air bubble, and creates a diving bell that lets it stay beneath water while catching prey. It repeats air bubbles and web anchoring to expand its underwater chamber.
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Ernest Bade
Smallest Post Office in United States Near Escondido
A sketch from The Pathfinder depicts what is claimed as the smallest U S post office located seven miles from Escondido California. The sign on the front reads thirty eight by twenty three inches and a witty label calls it the largest in the United States. The postmaster's house nearby is a circular stone tower about twenty feet in diameter and thirty feet tall on a hill.
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Ncle Sam
United States
Escondido
California
Deadening Sounds with Hollow Walls
The article explains how certain materials and hollow walls better insulate against sound than filled walls. It notes that filling walls can transmit sound, and describes non tearing methods using soundproofing materials and plaster. It highlights soundproof plaster to deaden echoes inside rooms.
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England
American
Edward II
Tury
Prince Are
James I
Titian W. Johnson
Potomac Beach
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