A Chicago suggestion for a safeguard against railroad accidents is to give a large pecuniary reward from the Government trmeur) to the employees of every railroad on which no preventable accident has occurred within the )e Mr Van Eysselberghe’s idea of using the microphone in observatories has been adopted in the observatory at Qensvt, and by the aid of the instrument, in combination with the telephone, the sound beats of the normal pendulum can be heard in every part of the building. The observatory u also connected with the Hotel Municipal, so that the beats of the electric clock regulator in that building can bo heard and compared with the pendulum beats.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6492, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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112Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6492, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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