Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

To enable those unacquainted with any sign language to converse with deaf mutes a Frenchman has invented a device resembling a typewriter which raises letters to spell words as keys ale pressed. Recently compiled official figures show that 753,170,953,000 cubic feet of natural gas were commercially utilized in the United States last year, about 20 per cent more than in the former record year, 1915. Driven by an electric motor, a turntable has been invented for automobiles that is operated without a driver leaving his seat, the motor being controlled by a push button suspended from a long arm. A Texan is the inventor of a combined shower bath and massage machine, brushes being revolved by an electric motor against a person standing within a tall cylinder into which water is sprayed. For handling paralyzed persons an Englishman has invented a bed on which strips of webbing connected to a frame cover the mattress, the frame, webbing and patient being raised together by gearing. By a French invention napthaline has been made available for automobile fuel, pipes conveying hot exhaust gases from a specially designed carbureter which has been primed with gasoline melting the napthaline.— Houston Post.