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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1913
Page
8
A report notes that current passes through certain wires cause heating when placed on the bottom. The observation highlights safety concerns for wiring layouts and electrical installations. Further testing and engineering checks are implied.
A mother explains to a curious child how an electric iron heats. Current from a lamp socket flows through resistance wire inside the iron, making it hot and transferring heat to the bottom surface while keeping the top cool. The heating element is the only part likely to fail, usually from leaving the current on. A new element can be installed cheaply.
A miniature electric dynamo, small enough to fit on a penny, wowed the French Academy of Science. Weighing 1.5 ounces and under 0.6 inches in each dimension, it operates as both generator and motor, drawing two amperes at 2.5 volts, and runs from a pocket battery.
The article explains a popular mechanics method using a combined electromagnet and trouble lamp to locate and lift small metal parts dropped in an automobile overhaul. The small lamp aids quick location and the magnet lifts screws washers nuts and similar items.
In Paris a demonstration showed strong electro motor forces from Herzian waves near wireless stations. Workmen on a telegraph line reported severe shocks after touching wires, traced to the Eiffel Tower wireless station.
A new fogometer uses trigonometrical calculations from shore signals and vessel log data to help mariners compute positions near shore in thick weather. The device measures time between signal receipts to determine run of a vessel on a log measured course.
Professor Fleming’s lecture cites UK power rates as remarkably low with 1 500 kW at 0.15d per unit, 4 000 kW at 0.123d and 10 000 kW at 0.114d. The last is for an equalizing load with peak-hour switching. Rates reflect waste heat and differ for continuous electrometallurgical use.
A simple open door alarm uses two stiff brass pieces and a spring brass piece formed as shown. When the door closes the spring piece pulls away from the contact, breaking the circuit. a switch at s allows disabling the alarm.
Kansas City reports its municipal light plant is profitable. A Atlantic cable spark crosses three seconds. Submarine cables rest offshore valued at 250 million dollars. A novel electric meter for storage battery use debuts. Incandescent lamp elements patent details. A Brussels wireless plant links to Belgian Congo with ten stations. Greenwich time boosts electric company business. German electricians refine arc lamp carbons. Wales hosts the world’s largest wireless station atop mountains 2800 feet high. A German doctor treats internal diseases with high frequency currents. Kansas inventor claims heat from a combined electric stove and fireless cooker cooks for half a day. A ventilating fan powered by a dry cell distributes aromas or disinfectants. Scandinavia to America wireless link proposed via southern Greenland. A mariner recording compass records electric currents for the stylus.
Instructional piece on boys making simple home made furniture from boxes and boards. It describes projects a blacking case a magazine rack and a tabouret with step by step assembly tips including cutting leg pieces bracing hinges and finishing with stain or oil paint. Copyright 1912 by A Neely Hall.
A French author suggests Napoleon III sided with Britain in the Crimean War due to friendly London clubs. He argues a bigger factor was the czar Nicholas I snubbing him with a "Mon grand ami" greeting. Napoleon noted the rift at a New Year reception with Count Kisslew, stating Russia could not be his brother.
Excerpts from The Comedy of Catherine the Great recount grand luxury at a military HQ. A ruler kept hundreds of servants, actors, and jewelers, invited dances, fetes, and lavish gifts. Officers were rewarded with field rank for performances, while entertainments included crystal goblets filled with diamonds.
Orison Swett Marden in Nautilus urges focusing on a continuous health image. Visualize strength vigor and moral wellness and banish weakness to shape reality. Keep an ideal self-picture and act accordingly to align life with thought.
An Indiana inventor describes a home film washer using a rubber tube attached to a bath spigot. A two lip end grips one film edge while the hose hangs over a rack or bucket, allowing water to spray the film fully without touching it.
A Harper's Weekly writer notes elephant sleep is debated with some authorities arguing bulls rest only briefly or not at all. Selous cites a herd that moved for 24 hours, while Kipling estimates four hours of slumber per day, mostly standing with Tom Gui’s tale describing brief fidgeting and late-night soliloquies.
A collection of lighthearted riddles and puns presented in a period voice. It features jokes about teeth, gloves, hats, and other everyday items, with wordplay on sounds and meanings such as gate, ever lasting, herring, carpet, kiss, chin chilly, hunted stag, and a naval kiss definition.
An article argues that backyard farming and pets enrich a child's development. It emphasizes beauty of surroundings, moral influences, and active parental involvement. It advises keeping boys at home during crucial years, providing pets like dogs, rabbits, pigeons, and bantam chickens to foster responsibility and beneficial companionship.
The left image shows two figures in a gallery appearing different in height while measurements reveal equal height. The right image seems to bend the black shapes, yet parallel lines and divergent sight lines deceive the eye. edgewise, the figures align and the lines are truly parallel.
A Rhode Island politician and late-election candidate returns home angry over a misdemeanor by his ten year old son. The boy replies with a playful defiance saying he hopes the father will be defeated, in a Harper's Bazaar anecdote from the era.
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