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CHINE

BLUE printing machine, de

signed for econ

omy, that will print continuous rolls or separately cut sheets, is a recent device that is finding favor among draughtsmen. The paper, traveling with the feeding belt on an incline with the tracing, is carried to the feed roller and around the printing cylinder, in which is mounted the lighting apparatus. The blue print paper is then delivered to the light-tight storage compartment and the tracing returned to the operator. Any length of blue print can be made, from two to forty-eight inches in width.

HIS MACHINES

AN AUTOMATIC MACHINE FOR MAKING PRINTS

BLUE

work required is that of placing the tracing and the blue print paper on the continuous traveling belt. There is no need of working in a darkened room, as the lightproof compartments take its place.

DIGGING POTA

TOES WITH
POWER

A

MECHANI-
CAL potato

digger has

been invented for use

in large potato fields where scientific harvesting methods are required. It is drawn by horses and operated by a light-weight, 4 horse-power gasolene engine. This machine lifts out the roots and loose potatoes, separates the clinging potatoes from the dried

The machine is automatic. The only vines, and deposits the potatoes in crates.

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That grubs the potatoes, separates them from the vines, and deposits them in crates. The photograph has been retouched to emphasize the salient parts of the machine

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The wireless laboratory of one of the great Western railroads. How the wires are coupled between cars FORESTALLING THE CARPENTER

A NOVEL EXPERIMENT IN WIRE

LESS TELEPHONY

T THE Omaha of one

IN California, where the majority of bungalows are built without base

A of the great Western railroads ments, it is sometimes more con

experiments in wireless telephony on trains have been conducted with a view to perfecting the system so that communication may be established with trains at any time. Messages have been received by operators on trains employing the ribs of an ordinary umbrella as antennæ and making connections by means of the high resistance of the human body. In the wireless laboratory illustrated herewith the six blocks represent cars. The method employed in coupling the wires between cars is also

AN UMBRELLA AN- shown. It is con

TENNA

Operator receiving a

wireless message through the ribs of an umbrella

fidently expected

soon be perfected.

venient for the plumber to lay the necessary pipes before the floor is laid. The illustration shows such a case in which the plumbing work was done for a ten-fixture installation as soon as the foundations were laid and before any carpentry had been done. This system, however, cannot be successfully employed in districts where the houses are built with basements.

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PLUMBING BEFORE CARPENTRY

construction has been started on it

that the system will Installing the plumbing system of a house before

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They consist of a canvas sheet stretched upon metal tubes and can be folded back out of the way

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lever each chain is given an initial tension sufficient to keep it firmly in position.

A NOVEL METHOD OF TESTING ARC LAMPS

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N order to test street arc lamps under actual service conditions an outdoor rack

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and a portable in-
tegrating sphere
have been assem-
bled on the roof of
an electrical labora-
tory in New York.

The rack accom-
modates eighteen
series lamps, and in
makingmean spher-
ical candle-power
tests each lamp is
lowered into the
forty-inch integrat-
ing sphere, the ac-
curacy of which was
verified by three
other standard
methods. When
this sphere is not be-

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ing used it is rolled COMPACT AND SANI

into the compartment erected just back of the rack.

TARY

Replacing the offensive, germ-laden bunk of earlier days

BENDING PIPES

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HE pipes or tubing shown in the accompanying photograph were all bent on a recently invented machine. They range from one to six inches in diameter, the radii of the bends being from three inches to three feet. The time for making these bends varied from one half to two and one-half minutes. Some of these bends, done by hand, would have required a gang of men, gas or fuel of some kind, and several hours of labor, so that in the saving of expense this machine pays. for itself in a short time.

A 5-horse-power electric motor drives the machine, and it operates on any shape of pipe or tubing and makes any shape or style of bend.

PIPES BENT INTO VARIOUS SHAPES

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THE TELEPHONE METER

An inexpensive machine for ascertaining the length of telephone calls

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By means of which a pipe can be bent to any desired shape in a few minutes

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THE WISDOM OF INVESTING THROUGH BANKERS
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC LEADER IN CONGRESS

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BURTON J. HENDRICK 136

ARE AMERICANS MORE GERMAN THAN ENGLISH?

JAMES MIDDLETON 141

ITALY AND THE GREAT WAR (Illustrated) W. MORTON FULLERTON 148
I. A SPIRITUAL EXERCISE IN "SACRED EGOISM"
BEHIND THE GREEK AND BULGAR SCENES GEORGE MARVIN
SWEDEN'S RÔLE IN THE GREAT WAR - - D. THOMAS CURTIN
AMERICAN COMMERCE AND BRITISH VICTORY OR DEFEAT

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THEODORE H. PRICE 183

SHALL WE HAVE RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT? (Illustrated)
I. THE BUDGET SYSTEM VS. THE PORK BARREL BURTON J. HENDRICK 189
NEW YORK HARBOR AND THE NATION'S FOREIGN TRADE

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THE DRAMA OF THE DYESTUFFS -
BALANCING DOMESTIC TRADE BY FOREIGN TRADE

MAN AND HIS MACHINES (Illustrated)

203

WILLARD C. BRINTON
FRENCH STROTHER

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Published monthly. Copyright, 1915, by Doubleday, Page & Company.
All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Garden City, N. Y., as second-class mail matter.
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