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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1910
Page
10
Bakersfield California hosted a giant plow built by a ranch superintendent to widen a 12 inch plow. Ten horses moved it, fifty finally pulled, four men held the handles. the device failed economically. A mathematician revealed the error: cube capacity must scale with width.
The Chicago Record-Herald explains that mountain and airship heights can be gauged by boiling water with an ordinary thermometer. It notes the thermobarometer hypsometer gives fine readings, with accuracy discussed, and compares to barometer use, both affected by nonuniform air pressure.
An elderly unmarried woman in Vienna left about £50,000 to six nephews and nieces aged 24 to 9 in equal shares on the condition they all live together in her former house under a lawyer executor. None may marry before 40 for the nephews and 30 for the nieces or risk losing their share, and they must not quarrel. The will was said to reflect years of pressure from the family.
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