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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
3
Professor R W Wood reports an experiment using a camera placed in water to capture the circle of light seen by a fish looking up through a water surface. A lard-pail setup with a lens and glass cap simulates the pond roof, revealing how the external world appears to aquatic eyes.
A Journal of the United States Artillery illustration shows the likely destruction from a six inch AP shell. Popular Mechanics notes the shell weighed 102 1 2 pounds, fragments totaling 94 3 15 pounds, largest piece 10 1 2 pounds, average 25 16 ounces. It passed Krupp plate at six inches and burst about eight feet out, yielding about 650 fragments. a group detonation among men would have fatal consequences.
Article describes a device creating 180 degree view with circular distortion at edges. It illustrates Mt. Vernon place as seen underwater due to the lens. It explains platinum sponge mantle ignition by gas contact and a French patent using a mixed sponge composition to ignite gas without extra apparatus.
The Egyptians forbade borrowing without pledging the body of one’s father to creditors. It was considered impious and infamous to fail this sacred pledge. A person who died without honoring this duty forfeited customary honors for the dead.
A magnified hair moves toward the root end when pressed between the thumb and finger. Hair teeth act like ratchets and permit motion in one direction, explaining why horse hairs in violin bows are laid with half turned end for end to balance sound on up and down strokes.
Maurice, French navy engineer, devised a boiler that stores heat in salt mixtures reaching about 450 C to continue steam production after the fire is out. The system saves weight and space, ideal for marine use and electric stations, with favorable Cherbourg trials and potential larger-scale adoption.
The fastest underground water flow measured 144 feet in 24 hours in gravel near Voucs on Arizona. Mr H C Wolff of the University of Wisconsin mathematics department reported the observations during the Christmas holidays.
An 19th or early 20th century feature surveys the global craze for buried treasure. Tales recount the Florentia in Tobermory Bay with 15 million dollars aboard, Balaklava salvage, King John’s Wash jewels, Mauritius and Cocos Island expeditions, and a penniless Meade who chased riches to ruin.
In the San Francisco earthquake period government workers report post office rules were bypassed and letters were mailed without postage. Postmaster Fiske and aides allowed many letters to be delivered free, despite Civil War era limits. Some branches in New York debated paying postage, but most San Francisco mail went free.
Two paintings believed to be by Italian masters were discovered in an old farmhouse north of Knoxville. One is a Guido Reni piece titled The Aurora, the other a Birth of Christ of unknown author. Brought to the county before the Civil War by C. W Ettig, they hung there until now. They are now in the hands of Joseph Knafft.
A 200 head herd from the Belle Meade deer park is now roaming freely across the western end of Davidson County Nashville Tenn. After the park fences were removed during subdivision plans Judge J M Dickinson and associates divorced the estate into small farms. Farmers complain as the deer ignore fences and crop fields and the only remedy is dogs chasing them back toward Belle Meade.
Representative Nye introduces a bill in the Ohio House making it unlawful for landlords to refuse leases based on children. The proposal prohibits banning families with children, allowing up to four children under sixteen per applicant.
In Lynchburg Virginia the public schools will assess teacher performance for pay raises. The superintendent and supervising principals will report on six points including discipline knowledge of subject method and manner moral influence professional interest and health.
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