Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1917 — NOTES OF PROGRESS [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF PROGRESS

American made Iron bands and hoops for kegs and barrels should find a ready market In the Seville district, Spain. That he can build up diamonds from chips with ordinary illuminating gas and a mercury amalgam Is the claim of a European scientist. To give him absolute quiet a Dutch scientist has had three rooms built, one inside the next, and has created vacuums hetween the walls. Tbe Inventor of a new electric brake for automobiles claims it will stop a car moving at a speed of 50 fnlles an hour within 45 feet without skidding. Steam issuing from cracks Iti the earth is used in an Italian plant to produce from pure water other steam to drive engines which operate generators to produce electricity. With a pneumatic tool for roughing concrete sidewalks that an Illinois inventor has pntented one man can do as much work in an hour as six men can In a day with hand tools.