Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1910 — MACHINE SMOKES CIGARS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MACHINE SMOKES CIGARS.

o —-—- The curious apparatus here illustrated is a cigarsmoking device used at the Department of Agriculture at Washington to test the burning qualities of cigars. The smoking is accomplished by allowing the water in the glass vessel at

the left to escape gradually through tubes. This movement of water creates a vacuum. —Popular Mechanics.