Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — RECENT INVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

RECENT INVENTIONS.

Cows are prevented from kicking while being milked by using a device consisting of a wooden or metal bar, to be fastened to the animal’s leg by straps above and below the knee joint, to prevent her from bending the leg. The gas from an ordinary jet can be used to heat a room by means of a new appliance, consisting of a metal ball built up of shells sprung.together, with an opening at the bottom which fits over the burner tip, apertures being provided at the sides for the mixing of air with the gas. An improved boot and shoe drier and warmer has been designed, consisting of a water chamber, having an airshaft through its center, at the bottom of which Is placed a lamp with a pipe open to the atmosphere and provided with an expanding end for conducting the hot gases to the toe portion. A Yirginian lias designed a portable' darkroom for photographers, formed of a small folding box, xvhlch has a number of nonaetinic panes of glass In the sides and top, with el-.stlc sleeves through which the operator manipulates the plates or films, the box being mounted on a tripod when in use. Incandescent electric lights can be inserted In or removed from sockets at considerable height by a new appliance consisting of a long pole to which a metal socket is attached, carrying wires which support a spring clip to encircle the metal base of the globe and* hold It while being screwed Into position.