Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-12


ton of magnesite, all of it comm,
!. from two states, California and Wash
ington.
OF French invention is an automo
bile wheel guard which not only pre-
vents mud being splashed upon pede
strians but also shoots it back in lin,
with the car.
An electrically driven pump, auto
matically controlled, has been in
vented for maintaining the pressure o.
natural gas in mains in cold weather
for consumers.
To enable bicycle riders to carry
babies with them an English inventor
has designed sheet iron drum, oper
at the back, to be fastened beside 8
rear wheel.
A New York man is the inventor
Of a revolving cylinder which can be
built into house wall to convert q
room into a bed room, dressing room
library or kitchen.
Italian manufacturers have de-
veloped an abrasive method for making
corks that wastes but three per cent
of material as compared with 20 per
cent when they are cut
Two sets of rockers are attached to
a new chair, the smaller ones at the
back supporting the weight when an
occupant leans backward and facilita-
ting turning it around.
Following the identification of the
railroad from Santiago to Valparaiso
the Chilean government plans to con-
vert all street railways in the country
to electric traction.
AS an improvement on the web
| fingered glove for swimmers an inven-
tor has patented one with a disk of
webbing surrounding the hand as well
as folding between the fingers.
! More than four times the amount of
merchandise was imported into Great
Britain by airplanes in the last months
Of last year than in the correspond
ing period in 1919.
| On the back of Il chair designed for
hotel and office building rooms is
carried coil Of steel rope, which can
be hooked upon a window sill and the
| chair used as a fire escape.
| Under the direction of an expert
| engaged by the government the
| Australian state of Victoria has re-
| vived the cultivation of tobacco and is
producing better leaf than former
| A New Hampshire poultryman who
| has several hundred chickens has de-
vised time clock controlled, motor
| operated apparatus to scatter feed
| over more than $500 square feet of
! ground.
| Because they are a nuisance to
| farmers, the South African govern
ment plans to exterminate elephants
| that live in large forest and natur-
| lists fear the species will become eX
| tinct.
Spectacles with lenses of adjustable
| focus have been invented by Miehi
gan man to enable patrons Of motion
picture theaters to get the best re-
suits, especially if seated near screens.
OF English invention is automatic
apparatus which enables an aviator
who is not a telegraph operator to
send any one of up to go radio mes
| sages by pulling a handle after insert
ing plug.
To enable dirigible balloons to land
without assistance from the ground an
anchor which bnries itself in the earth
when dropped has been invented fitted
with a rope that will stretch greatly
before breaking.
The see saw and velocipede have
been combined by a New York inven-
tor two children operating the former
in the usual way propeiilns the novel
vehicle over the ground.
The Portuguese government has ap
pointed commission to study and re-
port upon the ACCESSIBILITY of establish
ing a great central plant for the pro-
duction of electric power.
Its inventor has patented a mirror
to be worn on the back of motorist S
hand to help him signal at night by
reflecting some of the light from
following cars headlights.
For signalling either between aero
planes or submarines an eminent in
ventor has patented a device that
slightly alters the speed of their pro-
pellers and changes their sound.
A railroad on which the cars will
be suspended from a bridge like struc-
ture and drawn forward by aerial pro-
pellers is planned by Frenchman to
link two cities in his country.
Mounted on Il wheeled frame run
ming on rails, trench digging machine
invented in New Jersey can be used to
fill trenches as rapidly as they are dug,
eliminating sheet piIing.
The new government of Finland is
planning to make Lake Ladoga. which
has an area of 1000 square miles. ac-
cessible to sea going vessels by cutting
canal to the Gulf of Finland
Instead of bristles a new tooth
brush is equipped with a fabric pad
containing an antiseptic paste, which
exudes when moistened. the pads be-
ing replaced by fresh ones when worn
or soiIed.
An Italian inventor has designed
dirigble 114O feet long and driven BY
six 500 horsepower motors with when
he plans flight from Rome to South
America stopping in Africa en- route
A Boston inventors barber pole,
made of glass and colored in the usual
way. is Illuminated from within by
electric lights and as it is revolved is
duplicated several times by concaVe
mirrors.
The Austrian government is planning
to obtain 100000 electric horse
power by Harvesting the Danube river
and to build ten or more other hydro
electric stations in the mountains OF
that country.
For splitting cylinders or cutting
sheets of glass an Ohio man has pat
ented a tool featured by metal RIB
bon Of high electrical resistance, when
becomes intensely hot when current
passes through it.