Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1917 — SOMETHING NEW UNDER SUN [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING NEW UNDER SUN

An Inventor has patented a motor driving machine for splitting apart cakes of ice that stick together when stored. Swedish chemists have developed a method for removing carbon from coal tar, leaving a clear, transparent, golden brown liquid. A n’ew to be fastened to an automobile steering wheel Is Incased In rubber to make it vibration, shock and dust proof. A Kansas Inventor claims to have perfected a device that permits the use of kerosene instead of gasoline as an automobile fuel without changing carburetors. Mounting the magneto 'ln the .flywheel, the inventor of a new type of motorcycle has been able to dispense with the usual series of driving gears and sprockets. An Inventor believes he has made a safe hammerless shotgun by requiring It to be held against the shoulder with the right hand In position for firing before the trigger -can be released. Locomotives and cars specially designed for passage through sand storms and to offer resistance to the metal-cutting sand have been built for "the French railroad in the Sahara. A safe Invented In England Is fastened with a wire stretched to respond to a musical tone produced by some Instrument, its vibrations affecting electrical mechanism that opens locks. Weighing less than 200 pounds, a portable track-welding outfit that gets its electricity from trolley wires has been invented for small railways that do not require elaborate plants of the kind. Operated by one man, a gasolinedriven machine has been Invented that delivers more than a thousand hammer blows a minute to newly laid concrete foundations for roads to give them an even density.— • To lessen the labor of cotton' pickers, a Virginian has invented a low-wheeled truck, on which a person can sit close to the plants and push himself along, the vehicle also holding a bag to receive the cotton and an umbrella for shade.