Participants, and their various craft, who took part in recent races of miniature vessels at Victoria Park, inaugurating a new sport. Scene in German East Africa. The elephant is a pet of an officer and has been "raised," so far, literally on the bottle. THIS AUTO ROAD, NEAR ST. GIRONS, IN THE PYRENEES, FOLLOWS A STREAM THROUGH SOLID ROCK. The white square is a placard warning motorists to go slow. The judges assumed that the cost of shoeing, bedding and axle grease for the horse and buggy will offset the omission of grease charges in the operating cost of the automobile. In order to get a fair decision, disinterested disinterested observers were appointed to keep the records of the test and also, as a matter of fairness, the automobile was kept locked up while not in use so that no repairs could possibly be made without their being charged up against it. Of course the fact that the automobile covered three times the distance in a given time should be taken into consideration for, as the business man or the traveling man on a salary knows quite well, "time is money" in a very literal sense indeed. Further tests of a nature similar to the one outlined will probably show like results. A FRENCH SCHOONER DRIVEN CLEAN ASHORE BY A GALE ON THE CORNISH COAST, ENGLAND. It is seldom a vessel so wave-pounded holds together. along the way at the average retail price, just as the feed for the horse was purchased at livery stables en route. For depreciation an allowance was made. of $8.24, making a total cost of $14.44 or per passenger-mile an average of $.0157. The horse and buggy in the same time, and under as nearly possible similar conditions, made the following record: They covered 197.3 miles at a cost of $5.80 for the distance, no charge being made for repairs. Depreciation was allowed for at $1.47, making a total cost of $7.27, or per passenger-mile a cost of $.0184. Thus it will be seen that the expense of operating a runabout is a trifle less per mile than that of driving a horse and buggy, but as the test was for only six days and as no charges for repairs occur in the case of neither automobile nor buggy, this item of up-keep remains to be compared if a fair estimate is to be made. EXPOSITION OF AERIAL AT LOCOMOTION T the international aerial locomotion exposition in Paris, the biplane Coanda was without doubt the principal attraction. It is built of wood, including the wings; the interior frame work is of steel, two uprights only, uniting the lower planes; and passive resistance is very greatly diminished. It seems by its structure to be capable of greater speed than the monoplane. The efforts in the biplane are about the same from one end of the wing to the other. The greater part of the carrying surfaces are reinforced toward the forward part and taper toward the rear. The slender end has a certain suppleness, and consequently under the effort of propulsion the extremity of the wing will inflect upward like that of a bird's wing. This effect has TESTING AN AUTOMATIC PARACHUTE FOR AVIATORS. AT VINCENNES, FRANCE. A guinea pig is being tied to the model for an experiment on a small scale. been accentuated in the Coanda biplane. This machine presents another remarkable peculiarity: the screw propeller is replaced by a turbine, drawing in the air at the front and rejecting it at the rear. When ready for flight the Coanda weighs about 925 pounds. The many improvements in the construction of this biplane may very well. place it on an equality with its competitors. LUIS MAINO CONSTRUCTOR, BUT NOT THE INVENTOR, OF THE MULTIPLE TELEGRAPH A REMARKABLE CONTRIBUTION TO COMMERCIAL SCIENCE, SOARING ABOVE THE AUDIENCE SUSPENDED FROM A WOODEN EAGLE. A German actress amusing the crowd in a Berlin theater, This invention is used for transmitting and receiving the Morse system. It can send ten telegrams at the same time. Each touch puts in movement a vibration which sends over the line ultimate currents of high potentiality with unvarying and established periods. These currents are received at the station to which they are sent by a special mechanism and based on the different Morse Telegraph apparatus. With the Andrini system it is possible to send from ten to fifteen telegrams at the same time and on the same circuit. This makes it possible to transmit from 300 to 600 telegrams an hour, the original line being able to handle only from 30 to 40. The invention needs only a simple and inexpensive installation and does not interfere with, but rather supplements the telegraph system already in use. The remarkable value of this is easily understood, especially with its relation to the newspapers, etc., which above everything else require a prompt transmission of long messages with the least possible delay imaginable. |