A Mermaid Appears On The Transatlantic Liner
Senior Seaton liner passenger Higginson meets Pelagia a mermaid born in coral caves. She reveals laws of her realm and that he is promised by those laws. A moonlit encounter ends abruptly as a crewman orders him to jump overboard, leaving his fate uncertain.
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John Franklin Higginson
Seaton
Mr. Higgingon
Mr. Higginson
Boecklin
Scott
Mr. Higgineon
Lipa
Pelagia
Neptune
Wall Street
Mr. Higgin
Pon
Great Britain
United States
How You Can Make Yourself a Small Storage Battery
A DIY guide explains constructing a compact storage battery cell using lead tubes and a paste of red lead, sulfuric acid, and water. It details parts assembly, insulation with paraffin wax, and binding posts, plus charging via gravity cells and safety cautions about acid handling.
Lightning Arrester Sparks Wireless Power Claim
A sketch describes a wood base with three brass pieces forming a lightning arrestor. Pieces A and B clamp to the wood, C seats between them with a 1/16 inch edge gap. Binding posts connect line wires to the upper posts and lower posts to matriment. ground via the third post. Popular Mechanics notes light charges will be grounded safely. A Lyons France inventor is said to have solved wireless power transmission.
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Popular Mechanica
Senda
Lyons
France
Electric trumpet could replace bells and buzzers in future signals
German engineers unveiled an electric siren to surpass bells and buzzers. A compact, weatherproof device uses a nickel bronze membrane driven by a variable frequency electromagnet. Capable of parallel, central control, it signals like Morse and suits fire alarms, ships, railways, mines, banks, automobiles, and boats.
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Germany
Alfred Gradenwitz
Deutsche Telephonwerke
Berlin
Insulator Test and Rising High Voltage Demands
The article notes rapid growth in high voltage transmission, with lines now operating at 60 000 to 76 000 volts and projects for hundreds of miles at 160 000 volts. Insulator makers test equipment from 1 000 to 500 000 volts, highlighting a major expansion in testing facilities such as Victor North Carolina and other sites.
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Popular Mechanics
Victor, N
Sey
Victor Duva
Dirigible pioneer Baldwin shaped 30 year aeronautics career
Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin, noted dean of American aeronautics, dedicated three decades to ballooning and parachute experiments. He built a US Army Signal Corps dirigible and two spherical balloons, with 2,000 air tours and worldwide exhibitions. A San Francisco workshop loss marked his toughest setback.
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Washington
Thomas Scott Baldwin
Baldwin
Capt
Capt. Baldwin
Signal Corps
United States Army
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Europe
Australia
China
Japan
Egypt
Trips
River Ferry Connects Alexandria and Maryland Shore
The Potomac between Alexandria and the Maryland shore remains without a modern bridge or trolley line. A hand ferry, sailed when winds allow, runs hourly between two Alexandria wharves and Fox’s Ferry on the opposite quay. The ferryman, veteran river man W. H. Wheatley, has long operated the service. Fox's Ferry was once a bustling chain ferry run by a man named Fox.
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Alexandria
Maryland
Potomac
Washington
W. H. Wheatley
Fox
Goodrich Named Senior Officer of U S Navy List
Washington reports Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, commandant of the New York navy yard, becomes senior officer on the active US Navy list after Admiral Evans retires. Born 1847 in Philadelphia, he entered service at 17, served in two wars, directed Cuban cable destruction, helped organize the coast signal service, and led the Naval War College and Pacific Squadron during the San Francisco earthquake relief. The piece also notes a Nile bridge tradition involving Moses and Egypt’s engineering feats.
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Washington
Caspar F. Goodrich
New York Navy Yard
United States Navy
Evans
Coast Signal Service
Naval War College
Pacific Squadron
San Francisco
Admiral Goodrich
Philadelphia
Naval Academy
The Cow Path Echoes In A Dream Of Youth And Eden
A fragmented, lyric reminiscence blends rural boyhood memories of wandering cow-paths with longing for simpler days. Imagery of nature, oysterships, and a rustic country mood contrasts with a bar-room domestic vignette where a wife fixes a meal for her husband and children, hinting at domestic strain.
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Eden
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Government Signal Corps
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Vaeceatie
Virginia
Shoren
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Goodrich
Heade
Ofvans
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Moses
Cradie
Cairo
Rodah
Nile
Refi
Paradise
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