Show BITS OF SCIENCE Electric power is being used in felling trees in the Galician forests The throat telephone is operated by the vibrations which take place in the throal when one is speaking A new electric brake recently tried in England stopped a car in sixty yards when traveling thirty miles an hour Fuel gas made by electricity from crude petroleum is said to bo made at a cost of seventeen cents per thousand Electricity is now used to temper and harden steel wire A one horse power dynamo tempers 1200 feet of wire of eighteen gauge The pulsion telephone has two simple sim-ple instruments connected by a nonin sulated wire which may bo slack and also may be buried in the earth A new instrument called the telegraph tele-graph one enables the sender to record his message on the cylinder attached to the receiving instrument in the absence of any one to hear it and then to have it repeated to insure its correctness |