The Omaha guide., 1935-08-10

Shoes with roller skates built in
to their soles are the invention Of a
New Jersey man.
To prevent ice forming some Ger
man highways are being surfaced
with concrete into which rock salt IS
mixed.
Ink can be carried in the handle
Of a new stenciling brush and re-
leased to the bristles by pressing a
button.
Plans are being made t. make
Hong Kong an aviation center for
American, British, Dutch and
French air lines.
A conversion unit has been in
vented to enable an old automobile
to be used as an endless belt type
farm tractor.
A mast from an old German bat
teship has been erected at a naval
school in England to train cadets on
dry land.
Sixty per cent of the milk entering
New York City is shipped in glass
lined, cork insulated railroad tank
sars.
Airplanes from which fire resist
ing chemicals are sprayed are being
used in Russia to stop fires in wheat
fields.
A soldering outfit has been de-
signed to use acetylene gas from
portable tanks where commercial gas
is not available.
The Union of South Africa in May
mined gold worth 6,504,00O pounds,
a new high record valuation for a
single month,
Placing a cooking utensil on a new
gas cooking plate turns on and
lights the gas and removing the
utensil turns it off.
The largest factory for the manu-
facture Of all kinds of paper in the
Irish Free State will be established
near Dublin
By breeding a mountain sheep
with q domestic eve a Wyoming
ranch owner has produced an animal
that has both hair and wool.
Germany's second station for
broadcasting television programs
daily is nearing completion and
eight more have been planned.
A new steamer cooks three vege-
tables at the same time without mix
ing the doors and uses half as much
gas On a range as a boiler.
Devises hat test the chlorine con-
tent Of the water have been installed
beside some English bathing pools
within view of bathers.
A calculating machine that can
be held in one hand has been invent
ed to solve problems in multiplied
ton, division and proportion.
In experiments with obtaining
power from the suns heat a Rus
sian scientist has developed solar
boilers that produce steam in 45
minutes.
For quenching small fires an ex-
tingusher has been invented that is
about the size of a tube of shaving
cream and is operated by squeezing.
Exceeding a speed Of 200 miles an
hour in tests, what is asserted to be
the worlds fastest commercial air.
plane has been built in England.
An electric pencil operated by con
nection with a standard lighting
current has been invented for etch-
ing, spot annealing or hard solder
ing.
A violin for practicing invented in
Germany lacks a sounsing box, its
notes being conveyed electrically to
a player through head telephones.
Controlled by the right handle, a
new motor for ordinary bicycles is
supported by the rear axle and has
a sprocket drive with a disk clutch.
The merchant steamship City of
New York recently established a
record of 20 days and 10 hours
from New York to Cape Town,
South Africa
A hanger has been invented to
hold an electric flatiron and its
cord on a wall to protect the smooth
surface of the iron from being
scratched.
Because Of the severity of the
climate school houses have been con-
structed in Lapland below the sur
face of the ground with doors in the
roofs.
Aluminium applied to telescope
mirrors by a new process has been
found to reflect so per cent more
light than the silver coating hereto
fore used.
German instrument makers have
constructed a large electric coil that
counteracts the earth's magnetism
in which delicate instruments are
tested.
To provide power to ordinary BIZ
cycles a Florida man has invented
a motor that drives a drum that
does not slip n wet weather against
a rear tire.
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