Popular science monthly . is the designer andconstructor. The new press embodies avast number of improvements, so in spile of its tremeniloiis speeil the atten-lidii it rociiiires is e\en less than that ofliie ordinary jiress. It de-liwrs folded into either S, 16, orT,2 pages. Ciroat difticnlties were o\cr-come before the folder was of aeronautics were apjilied. 676 Popnlar Science Mnnihly 677 Sitting Down in Comfort ona Painters Job THK simple skill of the sailor evolved aseat in which he could paint the sidesof his ship or repair his topmost rigg
Popular science monthly . is the designer andconstructor. The new press embodies avast number of improvements, so in spile of its tremeniloiis speeil the atten-lidii it rociiiires is e\en less than that ofliie ordinary jiress. It de-liwrs folded into either S, 16, orT,2 pages. Ciroat difticnlties were o\cr-come before the folder was of aeronautics were apjilied. 676 Popnlar Science Mnnihly 677 Sitting Down in Comfort ona Painters Job THK simple skill of the sailor evolved aseat in which he could paint the sidesof his ship or repair his topmost was merely a notched board set into alooped rope-end—a childs swing, exceptthat it depended from one line instead oftwo. It was an uncomfortable, one-handedaffair at best; yet it was, and is still,used by steeple-jacks, painters and .^such like, with small variationThe inventive mind had passedit by until recently, when anemployee of a New Yorkelectric company trans-formed the old swing intoan aerial eas\
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