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Diverse Scientific Tidbits and Global Notes From 1900s
A compilation describes sugar impregnation of wood to enhance durability and heat resistance, a Brussels fire alarm via wireless telegraphy, vanadium steel hardness, and high fever blood protein effects. It also mentions a water search lamp device, unusual cloud formations near mountains, earthworms on Mt. St Elias, voice figures experiments, Berthelot’s gaseous projectile, Mount Pelee phenomena, Cephalonia’s rocking stone, and colonial-era naval and diplomatic notes from Guantanamo and Russo-Japanese talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Powell
Liverpool
Emile Guarini
Brussels
Berthelot
Mount Pelee
Paris