LINKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE.
The largest grain elevator in the world, says the Nashville
American, is that just constructed at Newport News under the
auspices of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. It is 90 ft.
wide, 386 ft. long, and about 164 ft. high, with engine and boiler
rooms 40 × 100 ft. and 40 ft. high. In its construction there
were used about 3,000 piles, 100,000 ft. of white-oak timber,
82,000 cu. ft. of stone, 800,000 brick, 6,000,000 ft. of pine and
spruce lumber, 4,500 kegs of nails, 6 large boilers, 2 large
engines, 200 tons of machinery, 20 large hopper-scales, and 17,200
ft. of rubber belts, from 8 to 48 in. wide and 50 to 1,700 ft.
long; in addition, there were 8,000 elevator buckets, and other
material. The storage capacity is 1,600,000 bushels, with a
receiving capacity of 30,000, and a shipping capacity of 20,000
bushels per hour.
THE FLOW OF WATER THROUGH TURBINES AND SCREW PROPELLERS.
IMPROVED TEXTILE MACHINERY.
ENDLESS ROPE HAULAGE.
A RELIABLE WATER FILTER.
SIMPLE DEVICES FOR DISTILLING WATER.
IMPROVED FIRE-DAMP DETECTER.
CAMERA ATTACHMENT FOR PAPER PHOTO NEGATIVES.
INSTANTANEOUS PHOTO SHUTTER.
SULPHUROUS ACID.—EASY METHOD OF PREPARATION FOR
PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES.
THE NATIONAL MONUMENT AT ROME.
ON THE EVOLUTION OF FORMS OF ORNAMENT.
STEPS TOWARD
A KINETIC THEORY OF MATTER
APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY TO TRAMWAYS.
FIRES IN LONDON AND NEW YORK.
THE LATEST KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GAPES.
WOLPERT'S METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE AMOUNT OF CARBONIC ACID IN
THE AIR
THE VOYAGE OF THE VETTOR PISANI.
THE GREELY ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
THE NILE EXPEDITION.
THE PROPER TIME FOR CUTTING TIMBER.
RAISING FERNS FROM SPORES.
THE LIFE HISTORY OF VAUCHERIA.
JAPANESE CAMPHOR—ITS PREPARATION, EXPERIMENTS, AND
ANALYSIS OF THE CAMPHOR OIL.
THE SUNSHINE RECORDER.
BREAKING OF A WATER MAIN.
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