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Identifier: scientific-american-1907-10-19 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 97 Number 16 (October 1907)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: scientific american munn brooklyn apparatus feet wireless machine scientific american electric steam engine sense gum american supplements brooklyn bridge american october wireless telephone gliding flight grasping power pennsylvania railroad
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rip, the Nulli Secundus coveredfifty miles. The highest altitude reached was 1,300 feet.The mean height was 750 feet. The speed was fourteenmiles an hour, but at one point it reached forty. Theengine, which is of French construction, ran from1,100 to 1,200 revolutions a minute. Ordinary gasolinewas used as fuel. Ballast was carried but not used. During a recent storm the airship was badly injuredbecause of poor housing. It is questionable whether itwill ever sail again. • » ■ i ♦ The Pennsylvania Railroad School of Telegraphy. A school of telegraphy was opened at Reading, Pa.,by the Pennsylvania Railroad on September 16. Thesupply of well-trained men is at present insufficient,and national legislation limiting the daily work ofrailway telegraphers to nine hours will enforce uponrailway companies the problem of supplying a largenumber of additional operators. On the Pennsylvaniaroad alone, which now employs more than 3,000 op-erators, it is estimated that 700 additional men will
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1 lit skeleton of the floats is made of wood ani aluminium. every 100 miles of the journey a sledge will be leftcontaining provisions, in case of any accident. Thewinter quarters will be at Mount Melbourne, the high-est known point of the dark continent. At that spotthey will be 731 miles from the pole; and assumingthat the motor cars carry them beyond latitude 82deg. south, they would then be starting on the re-maining 464 miles as fresh as if they were startingfrom the ships side. Shackleton thinks they canfollow the trend of the southern mountains a longdistance before needing to turn east or west. Shouldit be necessary to veer east, and tney find it impos-sible to surmount the glacier fields with the car, theycan resort to the method of pulling the sledges upwith the ponies. If that expedient is impracticable,they may go eastward until they find it necessary toreturn to winter quarters at Mount Melbourne. Butif, on the other hand, the mountains turn to thewest, they could go due s

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