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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. *lt;, Germany* has 3,2CO,OCO gutU and the United States only 1,SCO,000, whereas our number of sheep it C1,SOO,OCO, and Germany’s only 9,700,(WO.Vanadium, one of the rarer roefal*, has the property, mixed with copper, of allowing that mbit) to be drawn into very flncjwir*. Vanadium costs £120 per pound.The output of pig iron In Germany has risen-75 per cent, in the part 12. years. During the ume period the output of the United States hat risen only 50 per ctnt., and I now nearly* 14,000,000 toft. |Wat gat has been employed as fuelat the Mohala steel work a. Sweden, forthe piy/t 50 years, originally for thepuddling furnaces, and to a itlll great*er extent, subsequently/for the open*hearth furnaces,0The nggregotc tonnige of launches on the Clyde during the month of May constituted a record whk*h hat only been twice before exceeded in the whole history of ClySje shipbuilding. Twenty-threeMenmen were launched, of a total of 51.900 tons; three large ■ salting ships, totaling 5,67G tone; two • steam yachts, of a total of^455 tons, 4 and six sailing yachts of an aggregate of 135 tons. The shipbuilding Indus* try on the Clyde Is remarkably proa* perout at the present time, and not* 1 t withstanding the above abnormal output of new tcssels the berths are filled up with fre#h orders amounting to about 50,000 tons.A perpetual cloud of toot, gradually settling down, la fcnown to overhang every large manufacturing city. To determine the amount of this wasteful dirt deposit In .Manchester. KngUnd, Mr. W. Irwin weighed the solid matter obtained from a j^ample of snow that had been lying on the ground ten dsya, and has found an equivalent of 107 pounds per acre or three tuns nor square mite. Aa the saw* pie represented the condition ovtr at teatt 100 square miles, the chimneys of Manchester are convicted of throwing out not less than 300 tons of soot in ter* days. Analysts showed 4« 0 pef cent, of carbon. d.O of h^aij otl and greare. and 45.3 of ash, from which It appears that each day** 30 tot* of root U given adhcHvencu by about two tons* of ully matter.
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Moab Grand Valley Times
Moab, Utah, US
Fri, Nov 14, 1902
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