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...With him will be Major E. F. Norton, D.S.O., George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Captain C. J. Morris and Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the 1922 party, all of whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over. It was Captain Bruce who, with one other man, and using oxygen tanks to reinforce their panting lungs, attained 27,250 feet, within 2,000 feet of the summit, before they were compelled to turn back. The new expedition will contain 13 members, six of whom are novices. Major R. W. C. Kingston will be medical officer and naturalist, Captain...
...climbers will be equipped this year with a special oxygen apparatus, modified in the light of the previous experience. It was found on the second expedition that while there is a practicable route to the top, favorable weather is the all-important factor. Three separate attempts were made from the base camp, but all were seriously impeded by bad weather and in one an avalanche killed seven of the native porters...
Alfred C. Bossom, Manhattan architect, has invented a device for saving persons accidentally locked in bank vaults from suffocation. It consists of a tank holding a 24-hour supply of oxygen. The locking of the door automatically switches on an electric light which illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which...
Lecointe climbed for an hour and twenty minutes in a Nieuport-Delace plane with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...
...When the coal and oil fields are exhausted, the final substitute will be neither water power nor radium energy, but wind and sunlight. Surplus power will be generated by the formation and storage of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. The latter is, weight for weight, the most efficient known method of storing energy. It will be universally cheap, decentralizing industry, and producing no dirt...