New Lightweight Ignition Storage Battery For Cars
An illustrated report from a New York company details a light weight ignition storage battery designed for automobiles and flying machines. The three 5-plate cells deliver 6 volts and 26 ampere hours, weighing 12 pounds, with high porosity plates for long life and resistance to discharge. The article notes robust performance, durability, and potential to run a four cylinder car about 1,200 miles on two 50 ampere hour cells.
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New York Company
Scientific American
Improved Rail Bond for Electric Railways Patent
Edwin W. Robinson of Puuxatuwney Pa secures a patent for an improved rail bond that creates a firm electrical connection between adjacent rails. A bent rod enters holes in rail webs, with threaded nuts that force the rod into contact and wedge into the holes to ensure a strong bond and easy application to existing rails.
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Tawney
Rado
Scientific American
Electrical Divining Rod Invented by Adolph Schmid
An electrical divining rod claimed to work better than the twig is developed by Adolph Schmid and a Swiss engineer. A glass covered box houses a coil of insulated wire with a free to rotate magnetized needle. When placed over subterranean water with the coil axis in the magnetic meridian the needle oscillates rapidly for two to ten and even up to fifty degrees.
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Adolph Schmid
Telegraph Key and Sounder from Old Telegraph Parts
The sounder uses an old electric bell magnet mounted on a wooden base with brass armature and iron core. A pivot and string-like parts are filed for free movement, with a spring not too strong to prevent operation. A wire nail forms the pivot, and a one-eighth inch gap exists between armature and magnet. Binding posts reuse dry battery parts. base includes two wooden bearings and a brass lever with hardwood knob. A switch connects pivot to the sounder assembly and the brass sounder coil uses No 26 wire.
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Saya Popular Mechanics
Fragmentary notes on old radio receiver components
The text lists components A through HH including wood and metal parts such as brass and iron. It mentions nails, binding posts, the sounder, and wiring connections along grooves in wood. The passage appears to describe a schematic assembly of a historical electrical device.
Extension bell for telephone call notification in shops
A proposed extension bell system allows a ringing signal to reach staff away from the telephone. A hammer strikes a modified gong connected to a battery and bell placed remotely, with an interrupter creating intermittent current for reliable vibration.
Electricity thief taps factory lights for six months
An electrician recalls a case of a man who lit his entire house with stolen electricity for half a year. Next door a large factory used 1 000 lights nightly. the thief bored through a partition, tapped the current, and benefited from the factory's power, which eventually paid for the theft.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Steel Plate Sky Scraper For San Francisco
San Francisco plans a 15 story building with all walls made of steel plates. Architects and city officials discussed structural design and safety considerations for the steel clad tower.
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San Francisco
Sentiment in Age and the Jester of Time
Margaret E Bangster reflects on aging lovers and enduring sentiment, contrasting elderly romance with a youth-obsessed era. She cites literature by Owen Wister Edith Wharton and explores how material progress challenges true feeling, urging readers to seek old-fashioned devotion and the music of romance.
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Margaret E. Bangster
Lfe
Gacred Threshhold
California
Bahamas
Europe
Far East
Owen Wister
Lady Baltimore
Edith Wharton
Mr. Wister
King’s Port
Mia
Joseph B. Bowles
How to Make a Green Moire Table Mat with Appliques
A DIY guide explains crafting a decorative table mat to protect tabletops. It covers choosing moire or velvet options, tracing an applique design, assembling layers, and stitching with embroidery silk. The instruction details cutting, pasting, and finishing edges for a stiff or flexible mat.
Ned Barton Hero of Hoodville Zouave Cadets
A 17-year-old Hoodville youth leads a volunteer company of Zouave Cadets in 1861. He saves a flag while pursuing the riderless sergeant’s horse at a key battlefield moment, earning cheers from both Union and Confederate sides as he returns the flag to his lines.
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Ned Barton
Ned
Hoodville
Ned Bapton
Hut
Fee
Ellsworth
Chicago Daily News
Ned Marton
Nia
Whale Company
Alt
Army of the Potomac
Rocket
Volcog
Sergt
Watkins
King
Watking
Covetess
Fragmentary dialogue from a nine o clock scene
A dialogue shows two youths discussing Bosse Warr and her appeal. One remarks her clever talk, while the other recalls her father a bugler who plays taps at nine each night, prompting a puzzled response from the judge.
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Bosse Warr
Judge
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