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...pull may close this door, hermetically sealing the pilot as if in a diving bell, with freedom from danger of fire or explosions. . . . Everyone knows that in a fall in a hydraulically operated elevator the force of the shock is absorbed as the elevator strikes the bottom of the shaft. . . . My plane might have been falling 5,000 ft. instead...
...difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from the tallest elevator shaft in the Woolworth Building during one of the severest wind storms that have visited New York City this winter, revealed a away of only 5-8 of an inch...
...shepherd took it into his head to knock a pebble into a crevice with his crook, golfers have been eager to improve their implements. They had reason to feel pleased last week when the U. S. Golf Association, meeting in Manhattan, sanctioned two-piece golf clubs with readily mountable shafts which can be screwed out of one clubhead and into another at a moment's notice.* Brought out by Donaldson Manufacturing Co. of Glasgow, such clubs make it possible to play without a caddy, by carrying one shaft and a small container of clubheads. Practically, they are less...
...Long Island, say it would take only two weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser's strong room in the Lusitania...
...spilling, each ball had stored 750,000 volts from the whizzing ribbons. The hair of everyone in the room slowly rose and stood on end in the galvanized atmosphere. Then came a sharp report and the spectators' hair fell back into place as a bright i.500,000-volt shaft of lightning shot from one ball to the other, the overflowing positive and negative charges rushing together. Significance was that this was a steady potential, available until Dr. Van de Graaff turned off his little generators and let the whizzing ribbons come to rest. Surge (alternating) potentials had been made...