Science and Invention

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 154, 23 June 1891, Page 4

Science and Invention

'* The largest v 'bat^dietef yet made has "" been J uut' in .wprlciug oider, iu,the iSi. --Jacques*' Tourer,' in Paris. 11l is 41 ''feet's' l ineh v eß bigh. ' v Indian ink is made in L some uukrioVn way from burnt camphor! The -_§ecr t is Jyu>wn__only to the Chinese, - jsnd they_iefuse to /reveal Jt. Itha3,been. proposed to make the -,upper Mf^ofi war balloons o^veiy thin steel and the lower , portion, jOf - ordinary balloon material, the whole lidaXeanktf acted -as to hold' dydrogeu ,; f -dDbtead of 'ordinary gas. -' •A. certain 'amount .of 'air admitted if to the furnace above • the live coal is if -advantageous rather thau otherwise, < lf if Ith"e ! supply' "be regulated'. ~ The <r^.K^'gea of the air, thuswnlrodueed, r in the more effective combust In t^ sof^the gases. - ' ■■ i J>M. Faye, i member of r the French J Academy of {Science, thinks that- it -•v'isTj'feasii'le »to f predict storms twelve j~ liT3xirs~in ""advance ~of"(heir coining by the sounds which the changing r conditions produce, and < > 'which'-'the 'telephone will transmit. 1 ' An illuminated cat is among the "t}urioßities--of 'the - Patent at 'Washington, D. <C. ,-It is made of -• pasteboard or tin painted over with -- phosphorus, and it is intended to _ frighten away <( iats and mice and a -such small 1 deer,'' in the darkness of *r cellars and garrets I Among the new inventions seen at -, th« Mechanics' Fair at Boston, is a ; method of making ice by simply drop- - ping' a ,few crystals in water — the s- ''Secret'' of whose cbniposition is only known to the inventor. Not' only, is / jfie 1 juse, made in a remarkably short j~- space, of time, but ice cream is also c manufactured,' and eaten by those who „- staridand wait. - ' There is a proposition to construct _ r an atmospheric railway 3£ miles long up t the Jungfrau. „ According to the • plans there will be two parallel tun- \ nels v nearly 10 . f feet in diameter, -^finished cylindrical, and provided — with rails for the cars ; the cars will «— becyliudricalr and' will, be forced up "■ the incline' by compressed air-operat- - ' l) ? inßt tne ends.— [American Z Machinist ] { .■•/ '> .■? ' j