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...grow and bloom weeks ahead of the usual flowering time. Still more miraculous, they are found to be immune to all the ordinary plant diseases that hamper indoor rose culture. A very small quantity of ether does the trick-about a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing 27 cubic feet, or a cubic centimeter injected into the stem. The method is most successful with woody plants like the rose or lilac. All the latent buds or shoots are stimulated, instead of the few preponderant ones which develop naturally. This may lead to great economy in the cultivation of tuberous...
Helium is non-inflammable and lessens the risk of airship operation. But it costs $100 per 1,000 cubic feet and-in spite of the goldbeater's skin covering the cotton bags-it leaks out to the tune of several hundred dollars a day. The British Air Secretary now announces a different scheme, whereby cheap hydrogen will be surrounded with a shell of inert gas, minimizing fire risk at a tenth of the cost of helium...
...tiny machine, the XS-I, equipped with a 60 horsepower air-cooled engine, weighing but 1,000 pounds, so small that it can be placed in an ordinary living room. Ingenious construction enables the plane to be knocked down rapidly and stowed away in the few cubic feet of space available in the restricted interior of a submarine...
...Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon. Released from midair, the bomb buried itself in compact, sandy soil. A moment later the explosion threw soil almost 1,000 feet into the air and left a crater 19 feet deep, 64 feet in diameter. One thousand cubic yards of earth had been displaced...
Stormy weather was also responsible for the destruction of the Army Dirigible TCI, a 200,000 cubic foot airship, known as the " Pullman of the Sky" because of its wonderful construction and comfortably enclosed cabin. After a 14-hour night trip in terrible weather from Scott Field, Ill., to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, during which the rudder was out of commission for two hours, the dirigible was moored in apparent safety−only to be set on fire by a flash of lightning! Sergeant Harry Barnes of the Air Service and A. C. Maranville of the Goodyear Rubber Company, builders...