Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1918 — THINGS NEW UNDER THE SUN [ARTICLE]

THINGS NEW UNDER THE SUN

A new sprocket for motorcycles Is said to eliminate the jars due to irregular power transmission without lessening the efficiency of the motor. . . - - * For motion picture projectors a French Inventor has condensed j the light in an incandescent lamp in a small area by coiling a spiral filament closely.

Explorers believe that Lake Tanganyika in Africa is the deepest body of fresh water in the world, a record heretofore assigned to Lake Baikal in Asia. By heating napthaline under pressure in the presence of aluminum chloride German scientists have produced an oil that can be used for illuminating purposes. A machine has been invented for fish canneries that cleans and dresses salmon at a rate of one a second, equivalent to the labor of 60 expert—hand workers. - r The shade over a new plectrlQ table lamp can be inverted and used as a cooking bowl, while the contains a toaster and grill that lan be placed Inside the bowl. / The rear end of an automobile locker of English Invention is made of ground glass, on which a car’s number can be painted and illuminated at night by a lamp inside the locker. For fighting fires in small towns a light but efficient motor-driven pump has been mounted on a carriage that can be hauled as a trailer by any automobile or horse-drawn vehicle.