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Page 24 - PENCIL the best work you need the perfect pencil, VENUS. It is the world's standard quality pencil. Look for the distinctive VENUS finish. 17 Hack Jflrea.
Page 15 - ... provided with a special arrangement for cutting off the current or applying the brakes, should the vehicle escape from the control of the learner. It usually takes a week to train a new man so that he can manage all the brakes and levers with perfect presence of mind. Both of his hands and both of his feet are fully employed. With his left hand he manages the power lever, pushing it forward one notch at a time to increase the speed. With his right hand he controls the steering lever, which, by...
Page 32 - ... makes the landscape drear? The stink-evolving, grass-dissolving chemical engineer. Who is the man who'll draw a plan for everything you desire? From a transatlantic liner to a hairpin made of wire? With "ifs" and "ands," "howe'ers" and "buts
Page 55 - The amount at 28 days is about 0.1 per cent and at 6 months about 0.2 per cent. 2. Mortar contracts on hardening in air and expands on hardening in water. The contraction in warm, dry air at 28 days is about 0.045 per cent for 1 : 2 and 1 : 3 mortar and at 6 months is 0.078 for 1 : 3 mortar and 0.085 for 1 : 2 mortar. The expansion in water is 0.01 per cent for...
Page 13 - drivers " of Paris have ridden thousands of miles in their road wagons, have climbed mountains, and raced through half of Europe, meeting new accidents, facing new adventures, and using strange new devices for which names have yet to be coined.
Page 55 - By special assignment to the whole problem of a portion of the force of the Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose interests and good work along other lines of the road question are already well recognized.* 3.
Page 12 - Press your thumb down hard on a little button at the top and a bell rings sharply—a mere friendly warning that you are about to start. Now push the lever forward one notch and off you go, smoothly and steadily, but slowly; another notch, and you are making the speed of a trotting horse; still another notch, and you are flying like the wind, far faster than any horse ever goes under harness. While your right hand is thus employed with the speeding lever, your left is firmly holding the steering...
Page 1 - I shall transgress from this just a moment to give you the preliminary thought that, generally as a nation, when it comes to our heritage of splendid natural resources, we are wasteful, apathetic and forgetful. We waste our natural resources with shameful prodigality; we are apathetic of the future. It has been said that we waste our resources like a sailor spends his money on...
Page 16 - self-propeller" is popular and so is "auto-car," the latter being. apparently the favored designation. "Motor vehicle" seems to be the more generally accepted name in this country. But whatever it is, or is yet to be called, the thing itself must now be rated an accepted and established appliance...