NEWS IN BRIEF.
The speed record for floating bottles is said to have been broken by one that was thrown overboard from a United Stales Hydrographic Survey vessel, and was picked up recently by a French seaman. It bad travelled 1500 miles in 328 days. Tile earliest clocks with wheels were constructed in the thirteenth century. 'file actual inventor of clocks is hard to trace and it must suffice that Usov came into general use at she beginning of the fourteenth century. One was placed in a clock lower at Westminster in 12SS. A novel motor ear without wheels is equipped with two pair of runners each 10ft. long. Those are alternately raised and lowered in advance so that the machine walks along on them very much as a horse walks on its four legs. Loads of eight tons have been transported by this vehicle.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2903, 30 June 1925, Page 1
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145NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2903, 30 June 1925, Page 1
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