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The little Italian steamer Artiglio, 148 ft. long, of 284 tons burden, at anchor last week near Belle He, 25 miles off the southern coast of Brittany, had an importance out of all proportion to its size as the most modern, most completely equipped salvage ship in the world. Last...
Winter weather caused the Artiglio to suspend operations on the Egypt until next summer. The salvage ship went south to Belle He, was working last week in an attempt to destroy the week of the Florence H., a Wartime U. S. freighter named for the wife of U. S. Shipping...
In Russia. Archeologists have long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow...
The source of U. S. agar is a dark red alga familiar along the beaches of southern California. The alga grows generally in turbulent waters, must be picked by hand. Engineers are at present at work on a mowing machine which will stand rough seas, make production cheaper. Often the...
Men long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude...