Show ice by A new departure in ice cutting has been proposed by a man who contends that it is quite practicable to cut the ice by means of a wire heated electrically hia plan is to install a portable steam and dynamo plant at some convenient point on the shore near to the ice harvesting operation and run from the dynamo a suitable steel wire of tha required length with a proper return by generating a sufficient current to maintain tha temperature in the wire at about begs and by stretching the wire taut along the of the ice a means of cutting through the mass would at once be phia ledger |