Word: tripodic
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Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...
...John M. Browning, inventor of the Browning Machine-gun, and is under test at the Aberdeen proving grounds, Maryland. The cannon is designed for use in airplanes as well as on land or sea, and has a range of seven miles. It weighs 160 pounds mounted on a tripod, and can be aimed accurately from any position...
Trailing African Wild Animals. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson are the latest tripod nimrods to return to Broadway with the pelts and carcasses (in celluloid) of giraffes and jungle tigers. In the classic English of a recent advertisement they bring the " mighty monarchs of the murky morass, pinioned and pictured...
...Arthur Brisbane, of the New York Journal, awarded the two medals given by the Association, giving the gold medal to the writer of the editorial, "Breadth and Specialization," published in the Michigan Daily, and the second prize to the writer of "Cleverness and Labor," which appeared in the Trinity Tripod...
...valuable collection of classical antiquities which has been lent by Mr. James Loeb '88, of Munich, Germany, is about to be returned to him. As the bronze tripod was removed last year, the collection now comprises several handsome Greek vases, antique jars, various ornaments, and several remarkable specimens of Arretine pottery...