Popular science monthly . Lli.;<TA(.o I iiiKl I ridcrwoo !, N. ^* War babies in a London day-nursery. They will not know until later, or perhaps never,that father was away at the front shooting enemy soldiers with shot and shell provided bymother in the ammunition factory at home while they spent happy days in the nursery AH And This in a Mechanical A^e! A horse drivinga type of thresh-ing-machineoften found onsmall farms longago outgrew thisexpensive andwasteful methodof obtainingdriving power The second pic-ture shows awater- wheeldriven by ahorse attachedto a g


Popular science monthly . Lli.;<TA(.o I iiiKl I ridcrwoo !, N. ^* War babies in a London day-nursery. They will not know until later, or perhaps never,that father was away at the front shooting enemy soldiers with shot and shell provided bymother in the ammunition factory at home while they spent happy days in the nursery AH And This in a Mechanical A^e! A horse drivinga type of thresh-ing-machineoften found onsmall farms longago outgrew thisexpensive andwasteful methodof obtainingdriving power The second pic-ture shows awater- wheeldriven by ahorse attachedto a gin. It irri-gates a smallfarm near Tou-louse, receivethe water drawnfrom the ancientEgyptians in-vented thisabomination Below: A dog-treadmill used inFrance. Thewheel is beltedto a pump whichraises water intoa market-gardeners tank,near Orleans.


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