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...seems to railroad men particularly unfair that much of the money taken from them in the form of taxes has been spent to furnish free rights of way in the form of new roads, to such competing forms of transportation as motor trucking, "Even competing canals have been constructed at the railroads' expense...
...other valuable device is a distance compass. Any ordinary compass has to be placed in the pilot's pit, where it is so disturbed by the motor and other surrounding metal, as to be partially useless. The new instrument is an earth inductor compass, with no magnetic needle, but with a revolving electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course...
Install New Motor In Newell Tank
...satisfied with the results in the still-water tank at Newell, Coach Stevens, who had studied the moving water tank of the University of Syracuse, had a similar motor and water wheel attached to the Newell tank, where now the water is kept in motion, giving the oarsmen sensations similar to those felt in a shell skimming over the Charles...
...eight operations, of which six successfully ended pain. In two cases, some pain fibres escaped the knife. Said Surgeon Spiller: "It requires on the part of the operator a visualization of the microscopic anatomy of the cord and a realization that a slight misplacement of the incision may cause motor-paralysis of one or both of the lower limbs...