Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — POPULAR SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

POPULAR SCIENCE

Bell metal is made of 77 parts of copper and 23 of tin. Seven hundred British subjects are yearly bom at sea. Iron is seven times as heavy as water, bulk for bulk, and gold 19 times. Representative Snell of New York says that because of restrictive federal water power laws only 8 per cent or 10 per cent of the 60,000,000 horse power available for development in this country has been utilized.