Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-10-08

Wood Casting in Moving
Pictures-A Pocket of Carbonic Acid
Voting in One Second-Light With
out Matches.
Heating the tissues of the body by the
passage of very rapidly alternating
currents is the novel idea lately intro
duced into electrical therapeutics by
Drs. Won Preys and You Bernd, of
Vienna. In a process called fulgur-
alton, physicians in France and else
where have been for some years using
for medical purposes glow discharges
from highly charged induction coils,
and the superficial burning or heating
has FASTENED the healing of cancers
after operation and otherwise given
good results For the new method, to
be known as thermo- penetration, Sic
mems and Halske have constructed
simple combination of two coils that
gives a current of very rapid oscil
ationS and adjustable strength. The
terminals are applied to the part of the
body to be heated, so that the current
flows into the body directly, instead of
through an air-space as in fulguration,
and the internal temperature is raised by
resistance just as lamp f'lament is
heated. This is the first effective APP
plication for increasing bodily temper
AZURE. The sensation is an agreeable
warmth without pain, and important
curative effects are expected especially
in such cases as cancer.
A species of whale that seems to
commit suicide has been brought to the
notice of the Paris Academy of Science
by Edmund Perrer. These whales are
l6 feet long, have only two teeth, and
are so rare that only % have been
known, only single specimen having
been preserved. They come ashore
only in pairs, and if either male or
female is killed, the death of the other
promptly follows.
Mills for spinning yarn from paper
exist in Germany and France, and
another is being established in southern
Sweden. The paper yarn seems to be
especially adapted for rugs and carpets.
Carpets from inspun paper tape are be-
ing made already in Sweden, and
Consul-General E. D. Winslow reports
that this home-woven product is ap-
parently very satisfactory.
The uneasiness of animals before
earthquakes has suggested to A. Mac
cioni, an Italian, that the nervous sys-
tenn may be affected by electric waves
coming from earthquake centers little
in advance of the mechanical shocks.
Acting on this theory, he has devised
detector for such waves, using
coherer sensitive to all Wave-lengths,
which is connected by wire to an up
right metal late in the ground, and is
in circuit with battery and sensitive
galvanometer or relay. When electric
waves from the earth are received, the
relay closes the circuit of a strong
battery acting upon registering
mechanism a clock and bell. Record
ing the ordinary mechanical shocks by
means Of very sensitive seismograph.
two earthquake movements we're OBJ
served on April III, and it was found
that from a centre of disturbance four
teen miles away the electric waves were
made known four minutes before the ar
rival of the mechanical waves. Though
the new instrument is being first applied
TO earthquake study, it should prove of
iife-saving value in giving warning of
dangerous shocks.
Melted wood, "first produced II or
l8 years ago, was forgotten after having
been recorded as scientific curiosity.
Francis Marie reports that further eX-
perments have been lately made in
France, and that after the volatile sub
stances have been distilled from wood
chips, the hbrous skeleton and the
mineral salts are heated in a boiler to
1900 deg. F. for two hours, in an atmos-
phere of somewhat compressed nitrogen.
The exclusion of oxygen prevents COM
bustion. The mass thus obtained is
hard and homogeneous, but the melting
can be performed without drawing off
the distllation products and then the
fused wood becomes a hard anonymous
solid, with fine grain, and taking a
fine polish. The new material, which
can be cast and nodded and made indies
tructible by preservatiyes, seems to be
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