The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
::5s THERE is NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
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raises the sap in tree; Berkeley,
Cal, grower has produced a white straw
berry; and Luther Burbank III his
- Wonderberry has brought together
into n harmless and enjoyable fruit
two species of nightshade plants, each
Of which, heretofore, has been held as
poisonous. Last, but far, far from least
(the item might well have been record
ed as the antithesis Of the alarm clock
just intentionally there Is n Washington
man who has devised rooster muzzle;
his idea is TO kill the crow but save
the gentleman behind it. 4.
For the Camera Fiend.
But if the herald Of the morning be
allowed to speak his little piece, here
comes a man who will photograph the
notes. Professor D. c. Miller, OF Cleve-
land, says he can do just that. His
invention directly photographs sound
waves, magnifying them 1000 times and
recording them on films.
Something like this is described in
a May despatch from Paris, where has
been tried new apparatus for the tele.
graphic transmission of pictures, called
the teleautocopyist, for which is claimed
threefold advantages over earlier in
ventions Of the sort that it does not en-
ploy photography, works with great
anu uOtS DOI dtIlduI an tA-
pert operator. Add to this that Antonio
Mantagua, of Rome, has discovered a
method whereby photographs may be
either telegraphed or telephoned any
distance by means of ordinary wires
and that two Englishmen, Erban and
Alberts, have with marked success
wooded the color process TO the moving
picture film, and one sees that the
twelve-month has borne fruit for the
ont bncI q Sig Iy1n hpftnna
In the Laboratories.
The world IS physicists, too, have been
at work and pro6tably. Sir William
Ramsay announced in March that he
had succeeded in transmitting four diff
ferent substances into carbon; Zircon
ium, thorium, hydro -Huorcillic acid, and
bismuth. DR.. Il. S. Bailey of New Or
leans, month earlier than this, per
fected n substitute for radium; era
dio-Thor,' as he calls it, is made Of
pltcbblende, and is not merely cheaper
and better than the rare element it re-
places, but wholly lacking all of radi-
um's baneful effects. On February 10,
Cleveland scientists watched the opera
tion of an oXygen-acetYlene torch
which radlated a heat OF some $500
degrees-sufficien to cut through a 9
inch solid steel plate in 30 seconds. or
to weld aluminium, heretofore regarded
as impossible.
In contrast TO these forward steps
in chemistry and physics, begotten of
patience and long research, stands the
important discovery of a Denver jew
eler, David Lamon, of the long lost Sc
cret of hardening copper. He found
the open sesame through mistaking
another compound for borax. which in
stead of softening the metal, as borax
does, instantly gave to it such a degree
of hardness as to make manipulation
out of the question. At once he made
analysis Of his chance compound, de-
'termined its ingredients, and has now
guarded his discovery through patent
The diamond machine of the notorious
Lemoine has, of course, been proven
worthless (Lemoine 8 self is in Jail to-
day), but another Frenchman of very
different stripe has shown that he can
make artificial sapphlres. Louis is HIS
name, and Professor Lacroix himself
stands sponsor for him: the basic in
grcdient is melted alumina with the
secret of success hidden in the coloring
materials.
Finally, under tins head, Professor
Noyle of Berkeley, Cal, saws he has
discovered how TO remove the "drunl''
from whiskcy. "Joy Without Il Stinp''
has been suggested TO the gentleman as
ht label for his packages.
For the Use of Mars.
Man s ingenuity has not played ser
want TO the cause of peace alone, more s
the pity, Hiram Maxim IS wonderful
gun silencer, reducing the report from
even the highest powered rifles TO the
mere "pitf' ofsan airgun, has been fol.
lowed by noiseless cannon, which
Colonel Humbert of the French forces
has produced. England s army is ex-
perimenting with rifle fitted with elec.
trically-Gghted sights. for use at night,
and with June the Mclean -Lissak auto
matte gun came into the market, where
Mars buys his grim supplies. II throws
three pound shells n distance of three
and n half miles, and at the rate of
2J0 a minute.
Quite as terrifying is the new
FGahet' torpedo. with which France
has made recent demonstrations TO her
full satisfaction. Twice the size of the
old Whitehead and charged with
nearly 5000 pounds of high explosive,
il is controlled by Hertzian waves
without so much as n thread to connect
it with its pilot. safe on shore. Those
who have seen it in operation state that
1T advances to reconnolter the hostile
vessel in the manner of n miniature
submarine, pursue 1t, harnesses IT. and
performs evolutions about its threatened
sides, as though animated by an in
teIligence of its own-guidcd all tho
while by the invisible mechanic. After
this the amphibious automobile of the
French service, capable Of being
changed mt will from land to water
machine. reads almost tamely,
Here at home, our war department
has adopted the Dana Dudley Pan.
angle Telescope thing simplicity it.
self in construction yet possibly ca
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