Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1918 — “THE WORLD DO MOVE" [ARTICLE]

“THE WORLD DO MOVE"

A chronicle of Achievement in the field of science and Invention: ■ A low truck and tractor- for use about factories has a large caster wheel in front that permits it to be turned in its own length. w Stumps are converted into shavings by- a new rotary cutting machine and the shavings are drawn into bags for removal by a vacuum. An automobile radiator has been placed‘within a fly wheel by a Roumanian inventor, the water being cooled as it is whirled around. Simplicity features a Pennsylvania Inventor’s hatpin point protector, consisting of a curved piece of metal sufficiently springy to hold itself on a pin. British East African firms wish to find markets in this country for chenilles, coffee. Copra, groundnuts, sesame seed, rubber, ivory and peanuts, says the New York Sun. Many railroad crossing gates in France carry red glass lenses backed by silvered reflectors to catch the return rays from automobile headlights and serve as danger signals at night. Although it costs six cents a day iir India for men to wave fans to keep the air circulating in houses, they are gradually being replaced by electric fans as cheaper and more reliable.