Sir Ronald Ross on malaria origins and impact in India
Sir Ronald Ross discussed malaria as known to ancient Greeks and still deadly today. He cited 1.3 million deaths in India annually and two million worldwide, with one third of hospital admissions in hot countries due to malaria. He explained the mosquito transmission theory and the vast toll, noting the Great War death comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Ross
Lonedon
Millaria
Humber
India
Salonika
Penatons Dus
Science and the stokehole transformed by toil ethics
A writer recalls a 35 year old visit to stokers in a ship’s bowels and finds a stark shift when a later tour shows a clean, humane stokehole. The chief engineer credits science and diligence, prompting reflection on applying humane methods to all labor, from bottom to top, in industrial civilisation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Jacks
Ans
Gravity Clock Promised as Steady as a Rod Length
Mr F Hope Jones explained before the Royal Society of Arts a gravity based clock that would run with a constant rate. He cited experiments achieving daily variation within one hundredth part of a day and argued that maintaining that rate indefinitely would reach the limit of accuracy. He noted that comparison methods now outstrip instrument accuracy of clocks and telescopes and urged efforts to refine the clock further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Hope Jones
Royal Society of Arts
Inventions by Housewives Shine at Institute Exhibition
The Institute of Inventors displays housewives innovations for housewives. A clothes pick device saves items from boiling water, a tap without washers, and Mrs Rook’s hammer powered wood cutter. Nurse Mrs Davies patent a bed adaptable for adult, child or baby. Mrs Holt of Boston gives four square saucepans usable on a single gas ring.
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Institute of Inventors
Rook
Davies
Holt
Boston
Plant breeding to increase world's food supply
Plant breeding could boost world food supply by over twenty six percent with new disease resistant growths and climate adaptable varieties. Intense study and testing by growing crops may yield unprecedented varieties, while humorous exchanges and old jokes appear among fragmented text.
Trial of misdeeds and mismatched vows in a comic sketch
A collage of humorous exchanges shows a comical kitchen scene with a pampered cook, a quarrelsome wife, and a lawyer promising justice. Jokes about money, happiness, and social pretenses unfold while a Howell jury fails to convict a dog thief and a mischief of siblings toys with gifts and duties.
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Tive
Howell
Print Maid and Second Maid Quarrel Over College Professor
The maids discuss working for a college professor. The first recalls his manners to his wife, while the second explains she was busy between the keyhole and the dictionary as quarrels dominated the household.
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Shertock
Shere
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MLA
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Samson
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Dad Additin
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