World's Biggest Gas Mains In New York Tunnel
Popular Science notes the Astoria to Bronx gas mains are two feet three-quarter inch internal diameter and twelve feet long with a 26 000 pound weight each. They run through a tunnel 225 feet below the East River, then up a shaft at East 132nd Street, carrying gas to a fast-growing Bronx.
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Astoria Bronx
New York
Astoria
Long Island
East River
Bronx
New York City
Geologist Notes Nevada Springs Signal Ore Formation
The article discusses Steamboat Springs Nevada as a clue to ore deposits origin. It explains hot waters from depth carry metals in solution and deposit them in rock fissures, while others may form sedimentary or be redeposited by rain. It cites links between mineral veins and eruptive rocks as support for hydrothermal theory.
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Steamboat Springs
Nevada
Arctic Venture to Bradley Land Ends with Tragedy and Capture
A 1914 1915 attempt led by Mesere Rudolph Franke and Arthur Haack sailed July 4 from Quebec aboard the & 8 S Guide with Capt. J Dernier toward Bradley Land. Ice hindered Etah and Jones Sound, the party wintered near Lancaster Sound, Haack died in a blizzard, and Pranke returned to Quebec as a prisoner of war.
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Bradley Land
Mesere Rudolph Franke
Arthur Haack
Quebec
J. Dernier
Jones Sound
Etah
Baffin Bay
Lancaster Sound
Mr. Haack
Mr. Pranke
Hernier
Pucha Swit Kalch
Scientific American
War's Huge Demands in House of Commons
Harold J. Tennant, under secretary of the war office, described wartime army needs. He noted peace time apparel at under two million items, but wartime output reached 11,000,000 articles, while purchased stores could last 140 normal years.
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House of Commons
Harold J. Tennant
War Office
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