The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-03-09
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

Tungsten incandescent lamps are
now made as small as one-half a
eande-power.
The army's new rifle will shoot
bullet through 12.S inches of white
pine 1000 yards away.
Although most of SPANS roads are
poor. there are about 5000 automo-
biles in use in that country.
On over $500 miles of American
railroads the telephone superseded the
telegraph for dispatching last year.
The so-called catin finish on the
surface of aluminium is produced by
rubbing the metal with steel brush.
Eighteen per cent of the entire area
is forest land.
The eggs of wild birds are smaller
than those of the same species of
birds when domesticated.
Artesian wells 400 feet deep have
been used in the cases of the first
Libyan desert as water supply
sources from ancient times.
Diamonds are almost perfectly
transparent to X-rays, which there
fore are used to distinguish genuine
from imitation stones.
The submarine cables of the world,
2053 in number, would encircle it at
the equator more than ten times if
laid end to end.
1t costs about $4,000 to construct
an airship of the Zeppelin type, while
fuel and oil to operate it costs about
81 per hour.
rodents which enter them, with the
ordinary 110-volt current are re-
cent invention.
An enterprising Frenchman is MAX
ing trunks for aerial travel of an es-
pecially light material, stretched over
aluminium frames.
Samples having withstood strenu-
Gus tests, the city of Buenos Ayres
has ordered fifteen ambulances from
makers in the United States.
Within a year the number Of
horse-drawn cabs in London has de-
creased 1879, and the number of taxi
cabs has increased 1885.
BY curing meats with electricity it
is claimed that all bacterial life is
destroyed. thus adding to it's keep
ing qualities.
bill is before the Argentine con-
gress for the appropriation of more
than $4,000, 900 for extensive irriga-
ton operations.
The use of iron has been traced
back to the ninth century, B. c., at
which period the Egyptians made
weapons from meteorites.
Kansan has been granted a pat
l,o fro
two small wheels on a clothes line to
hold clothes pins.
Mines of the United States yielded
35,SS3,336 long tons of iron ore last
year, Minnesota, Michigan and Ala
bama leading in that order.
The. irrigated areas of the United
states have been increased from
about 100000 acres to more than
100000 in the last twenty years.
Scientists have figured out that the
peat boys of Sweden alone are cap
able of producing 10000, 10000 tons
of air-dried peat suitable for fuel
In a new egg-beater, the invention
of a Connecticut man, the wire dasher
is revolved by pulling alternately the
ends of a string wound around a
drum attached to the top of the
dasher.
Although the telephone did not
come into use until thirty-two years
after the telegraph it now uses eight
times the wire milage of the latter
in the United States.
Practically all the recent news from
Teheran has been telegraphed direct
ly from Persia's capital to London
over a 4000-mile circuit, the longest
in the world.
After a thorough investigation, the
French Academy of Science has ex
ploded the theory that the human
body gives off radiations which will
affect Photographic plates
Lengthy tests of paints in the canal
zone showed canary yellow best with
stood the climatic conditions. and that
color has been adopted for all cars
Of the Panama railroad.