A Home Made Airship From a Fifteen Year Old Inventor
Cromwell Dixon of Columbus Ohio designs two airships with a foot powered start and a silk gas bag filled with hydrogen. He builds a frame from spruce and a two blade silk propeller driven by a bicycle gear. The project includes wire fork experiments and notes on subterranean water detection via electricity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Exposition
Cromwell Dixon
Columbus
Ohio
Young Dixon
H. G. Moore
Scientific American
Ants Long-Lived Despite Minute Size and Other Collected Facts
A naturalist notes two ant queens observed for a decade and a pat lived into 60s. Ivy cools and dries walls but damages wood. A Paris Academy report claims an electri chemical diamond method with exhibits. Splice length rules for rope vary by diameter. Typhoid risk from oysters tied to freshness. Breadfruit yields cement cloth tinder lumber. leaves and bark used commercially. A new occupation disease telephon itis affects Bronx girl switchboard operators with arm rash and possible mild blood disorder.
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Bronx
Divining Rod Debate Uses Willow or Wire Indicator
Commentator questions twenty years of water divining claims. A Danish article recounts Mr Franzius challenging Bulow with a wire fork and a theory that water currents create electrical effects guiding the instrument. Scientific testing urged to verify if an electrical indicator could replace the traditional rod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franzius
Frangzius
Kiel
Germany
Bulow
J. H. Monrad
Denmark
Charity and Selfishness Quote by John A Howland
A brief quotation notes John A Howland warning against excessive pleasure in acts of charity as potentially selfish in motive. It emphasizes caution in giving for self gain rather than genuine aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A
Howland
Land values in New York exceed many states’ totals
Figures from President Purdy show Greater New York land valuation at over 3.5 billion dollars, nearly five eighths of total real estate value, with Manhattan six square miles valued higher than Missouri’s entire real estate base. Exemptions include religious and charitable groups and municipal land.
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Boroughs
Greater
New York
Purdy
Tax Department
City of
Pennsylvania
New York State
Manhattan
Central Park
Missouri
Washington Herald
Mexican Pottery Styles Draw Winter Tourists
Visitors to Mexico during winter often buy modern pottery such as Guadalajara Oaxaca Cuernavaca Puebla and Talavera. The popular pieces feature grayish white grounds with deep Delft blue patterns and occasional browns and yellows in heraldic, though crude, designs.
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Mexico
Guadalajara
Oaxaca
Cuernavaca
Puebla
Talavera
New York
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Sir John Lubbock
Academy of Science
Paris
M. Charette
M. Baylac
Orvillé Wright
Dayton
Berlin
Ig.b
Patrick
Ireland
Jacobs Oil
W.l.douglas Shoes
Wiin
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Brockton
Mass
J. Hamilton Ayers, A. M
M. D
Book Publishing House
Leonard Street
N, Y
E. W. Grove
United States
N.Y
Hale
Pike
New York City
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