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...Considering the circumstances-that is, a submarine operating on the surface, with her hatches open, and her commander, and others, on deck, and showing no intention of submerging-the most probable cause of sinking is an internal explosion. All submarines give off an odorless gas, hydrogen, when charging batteries, and this gas, when mixed even in small proportions with air, forms an extremely powerful explosive mixture, which might be ignited from a number of causes inside the boat. The resulting explosion might easily have so damaged the hull as to sink the submersible immediately. In our own Navy there have...
...Hawk. Then, without warning, the ship dove out of line at 200 m. p. h., crashed its pilot to death. No satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever reached; but many onlookers, including David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, suspected carbon monoxide. The same hazard-odorless, colorless CO gas from the engine exhaust, soaking into the pilot's blood until lack of oxygen overcomes his senses-may have caused many another unexplained crash. Secretary Ingalls soon put in motion a thorough study of the hazard by the Bureau of Medicine & Surgery and the Navy...
...Hydrogen gas is colorless, odorless, tasteless...
...protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed...
...near the Speaker's platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When the House did see them, it cheered and hooted with mirth. According to the French chemist, Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm, Germany has a new poison gas. It is colorless, odorless, can penetrate a gas mask, is one of the deadliest known to science. It embodies carbon monoxide. Dr. Heinrich Brauns, Minister of Labor, speaking before an audience of German Catholics in Berlin, said that there were 5,000,000 unemployed persons in Germany and 15,000,000 persons dependent...