A French inventor’s parachute can be guided in falling by pulling cords to draw in its sides.
Extensive deposits of iron ore have been discovered in Bavaria, the ore lying close to the surface of the ground.
In the last twenty years the per-capita consumption of paper in the United States has increased about six-fold.
Aluminium can be rolled into sheets one-two-thousandth of an inch in thickness that are as strong as tinfoil.
Charcoal made of peat and formed into briquettes has been used successfully for melting iron ore in England.
A new sanitary holder for tumblers is made of spring wire, so shaped as to touch the glass as little as possible.
To enable a man to walk on an inclined roof, spiked frames, to be strapped under the shoes, have been patented.
Experts from the United States Department of Agriculture are making an extensive study of the coconut industry in the Philippines.
To enable visitors to get a closer view of the whirlpool of Niagara Falls, a passenger-carrying cableway will be built across the river.
California possesses more than one-twelfth of the hydroelectric power development of the United States, about 450,000 horse power.