. Scientific American Volume 91 Number 04 (July 1904) . ing extraordinary rush of passengers. The extreme speed per hour of the large cars (with-out trailer) is to be miles; of the small cars, ; and on branch roads, 31 miles. THE ADJUSTABLE UNIVERSAL JOINT COMPLETE. The first of the new type of battleships for theBritish navy has been launched at Pembroke. Thiswarship is a combination of the battleship and cruiser,possessing the most prominent features of each, and more heavily armed than the cruiser ofthe latest design, and resembling the battleship inmany respects.
. Scientific American Volume 91 Number 04 (July 1904) . ing extraordinary rush of passengers. The extreme speed per hour of the large cars (with-out trailer) is to be miles; of the small cars, ; and on branch roads, 31 miles. THE ADJUSTABLE UNIVERSAL JOINT COMPLETE. The first of the new type of battleships for theBritish navy has been launched at Pembroke. Thiswarship is a combination of the battleship and cruiser,possessing the most prominent features of each, and more heavily armed than the cruiser ofthe latest design, and resembling the battleship inmany respects. The armament is particularly for-midable, comprising six guns, ten 6-inch, andtwenty-eight smaller quick-firing weapons. There arethree submerged torpedo tubes. The main armamentis carried in a citadel amidships. Under all the 6-inch guns are small auxiliary magazines and shellrooms. The maximum speed is to be knots perhour. The battleship cruiser, as it is called, will cost$5,659,410 to complete. JlTLV 23, I904. Scientific American 61. A FIREMAN CLAD IN A PROTECTIVE SUIT, TO WHICH AIR IS SUPPLIED. THE BRITISH FIREMANS MASK AND SMOKEJACKET. BY W. G. FITZGERALD. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade of Londonnow have among their outfit, not only atthe Southwark headquarters on the southside of the Thames, hut also at all the lead-ing sub-stations, a number of ingeniouslycontrived apparatus which are somethingmore than mere masks enabling the firemento enter smoky buildings, being regularjackets and masks combined, and the wearerbeing supplied Willi fresh air by means ofpumps, precisely as though he were a diverentering the depths of the sea. The utility of this apparatus was veryfully demonstrated a few weeks back, whena great and destructive Are broke out at alarge chemical works on the eastern out-skirts of London, the smoke from the burn-ing material being dense, deadly, and poison-ous in the extreme. These apparatus, or at any rate, the moreelaborate of them, are mad
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