West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-07
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

An electric cigar lighter is about being
generally introduced.
A new astero'd has been discovered at
the Nice G observatory.
An electric trce.felling machine is be
ing introduced in Europe.
Nitro glyoerine is now an important
remedy in heart troubles.
Water gas is used in place OF coal 10
drive the machinery of the forge works,
at Loeds, England.
In Munich an apparatus has been in
vented which greatly facilitates directing
the course Of balloons.
An electric mining hoist is being sue
cosstully used at the Aspen Mining and
smelling Company's works
Two European surgeons have found
hellehorine superior to cocaine as local
anasthetic IN eye operations.
America still depends ,ipon forcign
makers Tor a supply of commercial
electrical measuring instruments.
Electricity during storm, according
to sohncke's theory results from the
friction of drops of ice and water
The lighting OF the Hoossc Tunnel by
electricity makes the track visible when
there is no fog a mile ahead Of the train.
Acv. Bell has been able, without the
OF wires and with but few cells OF n
battery, TO signal between two boats n
mile apart.
Snowfakes are said TO be the result of
low-lying air currents whose temnera
lures were much lower than those of the
earth's surface.
orc stamping by electricity Is con.
sidered the only sufficiently economical
system 10 permit Of lower class ores
being treated Mt a profit.
Microscopic examination OF ommcn.
site, the new explosive, tends 10 con.
firm the fac. that IL is chemical com.
pound and not mere mixture.
A French scientist holds that the
human race has greatly diminished in
81 since the creation OF man, and gives
the height of Adam as 128 feet and Eve
as 1lS.
Lead shoppers to soda water siphons.
ginger beer bottles, etc, are condemned
10y medical authorities. Block tin only
should be used in contact with carbon
ated waters.
AlNiy a itW u rNoNtINt is sara
to be the first mineral yet found con
taining platinum as an important con
stituent other than the natural alloys
with various metals of tho platinum
group.
Railroad authorities nre getting more
than ever in favor OF heavier rail sec
tiOns. The Michigan Central takes to
an eighty pound section, the : cading TO
a ninety, while on the lines OF the Plant
system seventy pound section replaces
a sixty pound rail.
Among the heaviest locomotives ever
built are those recently put on its mount.
ain division by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Their actunl weight
in working order Is 1913, 040 pounds, and
18s, Y40 pounds is on the drivers They
have q tractive force OF 271 pounds per
pound average pressure 10 the cylinder.
Their cylinders arc % inches in diameter
by 2S inches stroke driving wheels, 80
inches diameter; boiler, feet in diam
eter and 13 feet @ inches long over tube
sheets. The tubes are 270 in number,
and "a inches in diameter. The fire box
is over 4 feet long inside by AZ inches
wide, and is placed above the frames,
but not above the wheels. The heating
surface IN the fire box is IS square feet,
and the total heating surface 254j square
feet The engine is designed to burn
anthracite but not like the WOotten en-
gincs, buckwheat or refuse coal.