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...gear is a section of cased shafting, turned by a 5-horsepower motor. The driving end was speeded up to 17,000 revolutions per minute, while the other end of the shaft was making only five revolutions an hour. It has lifted 12 tons and has not reached its limit. The gear has no cogwheels nor even teeth, but turns on ball bearings between rollers of various diameters, slightly off center. The difference in diameters establishes the rate of reduction in speed and increase of power...
...Another shaft in the speech, aimed at similar unfounded aspersions on international banking houses, effectively pointed out: " The banker does not buy (securities) for the purpose of holding but of distributing. If the banker were to hold for his own account the securities which he buys in the course of his business his funds would very soon be exhausted and he would find himself unable to undertake new business...
...quickened consciousness we term life into that black borderland which, so far as we know, edges eternity". Then, in an article written just before an operation which proved fatal to him, he tells of the various ways in which he had previously met death:--by falling down an elevator shaft, from the effects of a mine explosion, from a shell-wound, from anaesthetic, and from loss of blood. But every time the return to life proved more painful to him than the leaving of it. At last he was able to look forward to real death with composure...
...balloon. A great new invention is going to perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome crankshaft, but by an oscillating disk. This disk, it is confidently predicted by the inventor, will transfer the power from engine to shaft with absolutely no waste of energy. Such perfect efficiency will permit a car to run a thousand miles on a single tank of gasoline. Advertising will no longer read "tires guaranteed for ten thousand miles" but "a gallon of our best will take you where you want...
...reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face of our mysterious relative. No sewing circle, tearing asunder some absent member, can compare with our astronomical gossips, gathered...