Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

A globular lifeboat which can carry 16 persons safely through the roughest water has been invented by a Dane who once saw an iron -water tank floating several weeks after a wreck. An English inventor has patented a process for so treating the edges of paper money that, when placed in a phonograph_pf his invention, they produce words attesting their genuineness. A Missouri inventor’s anti-skidding device for automobiles includes legs to be so carried on the hub of an automobile wheel that they can be projected to engage slippery roadways. The seats ori a recently patented sightseeing automobile are slowly revolved as the vehicle moves, permitting the passengers to see both sides of a street without twisting their necks. Where high power electric transmission lines cross highways in Norway networks of wire are erected to protect persons using the roads, should the heavily charged wires break and fall. A Nebraska man, after 11 years of experiment, has invented a device that enables a user of a party telephone line to identify any other subscriber who may be listening to his conversation. — Houston Post.