ff 1 y SVl kc TJi PUUIQTOR T1 ftW APPARATUS jmVOMC Y WCl GAM OJ P JPOPSYG JJrF 5 UCLE SAM has very good reason to plume himself because of a number of important recent achievements that most distinctly make for progress Some of triumphs have taken the form of W J that wero virtually impossible of others none the less valuable have been in the line of discov eries of ways and means for doing things that have been done heretofore but of doing them more easily more quickly more economically or more effectively than has heretofore been deemed possible Tho national government has been taking the lead In scientific mechanical and engi neering development to a constantly increas lng extent in late years For of course the reader will understand that in speaking of Uncle Sams current triumphs in the field of invention and experiment reference is made not to the federal government as represented by its own experts and employes Now tho national government has always been a con tributor to tho cause of science and invention there being dual reasons for its activity in such direction On tho one hand the central government with paternal instinct has been bound to contribute in every way to the well bcing of the whole people and as is well known such benefit is more often than not con ferred through the instrumentality of scien tific discoveries and inventions Obviously then It is up to Undo Sam to foster Yankee ingenuity by every possible means Yet the second Incentivo to federal activity in this broad field has been even more of a spur than tho first It arises from the fact that the national government la to an extent ggfe strz - v ni ffWLY JJWFSfrr 0 VACtflP GAUGE Ar TNJ 3lAlOF 37A WARDS but this does not prevent the magnet from do Ing stunts of great popular interest now and then When the magnet is charged with its fuP electric current of 125 amperes a piece of metal weighing hundreds of pounds might bo sus pended at the pole pieces and the leakage that is the stray magnetic field way out at the ends of the magnet is sufficient to suimort In all sorts of positions wrenches and bars of juiib no mutu us uvb or bix pounus apiece whereas wire nails in series of half a II IIHmw iiial I i i hm I II I I i ArortfX W STYU 11L CWVSYQA appreciated by comparatively few of our citi zens an operator of scientific laboratories a manufacturer and a business corporation Now with Uncle Sam in the actual conduct of arts and Industries on a greater scale In some in stances than they are being carried on by any private corporation it has become imperative from tho hard practical business standpoint that tho government shall have the benefit of the highest possible attainments in time and labor saving equipment In the effort to keep abreast of or a little Ahead of the worlds march of progress the federal establishment ha3 continually carried on tests and experiment with a view to dis closing new capabilities in instruments and ap paratus of one kind or another that rank as cAn soTte fACHste cisr sywxKP sn cmsis dozen or more end to end are supported In horizontal position One of the most amazing tricks per formed by the mag net Is to support a glass dish by means of a small piece of iron placed inside the dish the power of magnetic attraction being exerted upon the iron through the thickness of the lay er of glass Another impressive illustra tion of tho power of this monster magnet Is afforded when a handful of nails are thrown In the air perhaps three or four feet away from the magnet As though whisked in by an in- visible hand and almost more quickly than the eye can follow the operation these nail3 are one and all drawn to the highly magnetized surface This new magnet a worlds record breaker In size as well as in power was constructed specially for the United States government by a firm of instrument makers in Switzerland The circumstances connected with the design ing of the magnet illustrate how great minds may run In the same direction Mr Frederick Bates the United States government expert who is at the head of the division of polarlmet ry at the bureau of standards and working In conjunction with other government scientists Just worked out the detailed plans for such a magnet when ho discovered that the foreign commercial products and as such may bex instrument makers who ultimately built this bought in the open market But a large share of what nan been accomplished these past few years has been due to new Inventions evolved iy government officials And it is pleasing to note that there Is an increasing disposition on part of the men on Uncle Sams payroll to regard as federal property the inventions from which they might otherwiso reap a fortune There have from time to time been charges and rumors putting in question the ethics and honesty of men who derived private wealth from inventions alleged to have been worked out in government time and with the aid of facilities offered by a governmental position Happily however such cases appear to bo growing moro rare and to counterbalance the isolated instances we have oxamples such as recently afforded by Major Squier assistant chief 3ignal officer of the United States army when he dedicated to tho free use of the American people the patents covering his new system of multiplex telephony Some of the most spectacular of Uncle Sams current scientific triumphs are being worked out by the aid of the most powerful magnet In the world which has recently been installed at a cost of 1200 at the United States bureau of standards This magnet Is in effect an en larged edition of the familiar toy from which femall boys dorive so much enjoyment and it may he whispered that the government scien tists are getting a proportionate amount of ex citement from the almost miraculous powers of this largest of all magnets Primarily the new magnet is employed by the government experts for optical work of the most highly technical character a pushing back of the bounds of the unknown In this scientific field one for our government had been covering the same ground at the same time each inventor unconscious of tho activities of his rival on tho opposite side of the Atlantic Perhaps the most unusual attribute of this magnet is that it Is made available for con tinuous use this being accomplished by re placing ordinary insulated wires such as are commonly used with copper tape This cop per tape is surrounded by insulating oil Through this oil there are run C0II3 of copper tubing about one half Inch in diameter and through this tubing cold water is circulated to carry off the enormous heat which Ib devel oped In the same room with the new magnet is a yet newer Invention the product of gov ernment scientists which promises great things It is known as a vacuum gauge and it will enable more minute and moro accurate measurement than has heretofore been possi ble in the case of a vacuum One of the most notable of Uncle Sams scientific triumphs of the present year is the new system of multiplex tolephony mentioned above and which by its disclosure of a method of transmitting a number of telephone mes sages simultaneously over the same wire Is ex pected to greatly reduce the cost of long dis tance telephone conversation In connection with the development of this new form of tel ephony which will make one wire do the work of ten Major Squier and his associates have carried on some experiments which though originally Intended only as a means to an end now promise to have a distinct value of their own in disclosing the possibilities of transmit ting music by telephone The music of a phonograph or graphophone X SK 0 av5 jxe ft fvrvviw D m s r - Jt uSJ slx w mm m w AeC Ar N Ol ZXSXfJ r hi PSSP5r t v 7 yj V 5FvV iia s vr CfWfC1D QFJUVOyjFJL I fiW 5Ty P1AL COfiVFQR ji x sC fss Tf MOSF3OWlJL MAGYTJff Tf WOJ2LD air tight connection between the human lungs and the mechanical lungs of the machine It is said of this new invention that It will make a corpse breathe meaning that it will compel the diaphragm to move in a body In which life is wholly extinct The new device costs 800 making it one of the worlds most expensive pieces of rescue equipment as it is certainly one of the most effective Comparatively little experience is required for its succssful opera tion Government officials have within the past few months invented several new machines for quickening and cheapening the manufacture of paper money and postage stamps and whereas these inventions may not find very extensive adoption outside the government workships they will exert an important Influence there Among these new Inventions is a remarkable combination machine which at one operation stamps the successive serial number on each bank note impresses in color the official seal cuts tho sheets of money into individual notes and counts the bills tasks that formerly re quired as many different machines and an im mense expenditure of time Another new inven tion is a machine which automatically trims at one stroke all four edges of a sheet of bank notes A third new invention is a machine for automatically wetting the sheets of paper used in printing our currencs a chore that had for- tiT fZir A sL j mi feA n mmwm - - mrmxazttmm rrrv znxssaK va - yum ri tt6nm2mtmsMi 7yA5M7TG JWOflOGffAPSf JW5fC BY PlHOfS was the particular form of melody transmitted and the results were really surprising In many respects For one thing the music as heard at the other end of the line was remarkably clear and sweet Indeed It was seemingly more perfect tone production than that obtain able under any other conditions inasmuch as the telephone served to entirely eliminate tho needle nose the one suggestion of the me chanical which talking machine inventors have never been able to entirely eliminate It Is believed that this disclosure of the possibili ties of transmitting music by phone will ulti mately enable people to enjoy concerts by the best vocal and instrumental talent when seat ed In their own homes This would of course prove an especial boon in the case of subur banites and residents of the rural districts where the use of the telephone has increased so tremendously in recent years In the ex periments with multiplex telephony the graph ophone music was employed to still further demonstrate the possibility of using a single wire for the transmission of various messages simultaneously each independent of the others For instance on one occasion Caruso by means of a talker sang on the line while The Charge of the Light Brigade as re cited into a separate transmitter close at hand was carried over tho same wire at the same time without in any way Interfering with the famous tenors voice Of Uncle Sams recent innovations In tech nical equipment none bids fair to ultimately work greater wonders than the lately intro duced Pulmotor The Pulmotor is a delicate ly adjusted machine that occupied a portable case not much larger than the ordinary dress suit case and its function is to bring back to life persons supposed to be dead The gov ernment provided the first of these new mir acle workers for the use of the newly estab lished United States bureau of mines In its work of rescuing men overcome by the-poisonous gases In coal mines but the advent of the invention is opening up life saving possibilities In other fields as for instance at bathing beaches and In city hospitals In short in any case where death is threatened through the filling of the lungs with gas or water The Pulmotor Is in effect an automatic breathing machine its functldn being to draw the poisonous gases out of the lungs and to force into the lungs In turn the life giving oxygen The mechanism includes a cylinder in which oxygen is stored under pressure a blow ing and suction valve actuated by two accordion bellows and a hood or mask which fits over the mouth and nostrils of the patient making an merly to be done by hand and a fourth in vention is a mechanism which neatly arranges in coils the postage stamps which are to be placed on sale in venrfing or stamp selling ma chines which it is planned to introduce in this country following the example of Germany and other foreign countries Much has been printed from time to time re garding the machines that almost think in vented by the mechanical experts of the United States census bureau to aid Uncle Sam in the big task of counting noses However there is one invention newer than any of the others re garding which little has been said This is the automatic card sorting machine the function of which is to sort mechanically the ninety odd million cards representing the people of the United States for under our present system of card indexing the country the census office has on file a bit of pasteboard to represent every man woman and child In the republic The new sorter sorts cards at a speed of from 300 to 325 per minute sorting the cards Into thirteen different drawers The machine Is operated by electricity and the sorting is done through the medium of sensitive needles which seek out the holes which have previously been punched in each card to record biographical facts and dis tribute the cards according to the location of these holes Uncle Sams greatest business institution the postoffice department has lately fostered its share of new inventions aside from the stamp vending machines with which it has long been experimenting The late novelties include an electric canceling machine for canceling the stamps on letters and postmarking the envel opes a trolley system for handling mall in city postofflces and a belt conveyor system for the same purpose Two clerks in the postoffice de partment lately Invented a machine that cuts down work 20 per cent in the money order branch of our postal headquarters through its faculty in automatically printing the money or der fees as the amounts of the paid money or ders are recorded for auditing purposes And finally tho department is on the eve of per fecting a remarkable new machine for the use of every postmaster throughout the country whe conducts a branch of the new postal savings bank This last mentioned Invention Is sugges tive in appearance of the familiar cash register and its function Is to mechanically fill out the deposit slips of the lately established poor mans bank a work that had formerly to be done by hand Not only will this new mechan ical toiler save time and labor but It will make dishonesty virtually Impossible on the part of any employe handling postal bank deposits STONE 1H BLADDER REMOVED IN REMARKABLE WAY A year and a half ago I wa3 taken with a severe attack of kidney trouble that pained me to such an extent that mor phine had to be given me Was attended by a doctor Avho pronounced it as stone in the bladder and prescribed Lithia Water I took Lithia Water and tablets for some time and received no relief from them I stopped taking medicines for some time and having come Dr Kilmers Swamp Itcofc in the house I decided to 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