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Poor old steam power, staggering under the body blows of electricity, has now to face another enemy. A mercury boiler 50% more efficient than the best steam turbine, and considered by engineers the "greatest advance in power production in many years," is the latest achievement of the General Electric Co. W. LeR. Emmet, consulting engineer of the Company, is the man behind the boiler. Time will be required to develop and perfect the system, but two of the boilers already exist, one in the laboratories at the Schenectady works, the other in actual and successful operation at a generating station...
...result has been the "ready-made- newspaper-a paper full of syndicated news (i. e., identical articles furnished from one source to a large group of papers), syndicated "features", even syndicated editorials made of "boiler plate" (articles set in type on the face of meta plates, a column in width), "matrices" (composition molds bearing the imprint of type, pictures, etc., into which it is only necessary to pour type metal) anc "patent insides" (sheets of newspaper printed on one side, with articles, advertisements, etc., furnished principally to country newspapers. On the blank side the editor places his own articles advertisements...
Last year, while ineligible, Milstead kept in condition by scrimmaging on the second team and stoking the fires in the boiler room of the Hotel Taft...
...other instruments (to all intents and purposes a pair of steam calliopes), and the gentleman in Wilmington who wishes to talk about the natural development of cucumbers. The general effect is something between water disappearing from the kitchen sink, a street car sour-milking round a curve, and a boiler-factory on the rampage...
...unusual as the aim itself. From the coal used in the engines he will extract the benzol, which he thus obtains free through the sale of the valuable by-products. From this benzol he will get as much energy as from the original amount of coal through an efficient boiler system. This, together with the "sweating of executive brows" will provide the wherewithal to buy the sewing machines and phonographs. The autos he does not need to worry about...