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Show REMARKABLE INVENTIONS. Among remarkable recent Inventions are the pneumoslito, the topodict the telemeter, the telephone-ears and the thermophile. The pneumoslito Is an automobile especially designed for use on Ice, but which can just as easily be used on land. It Is moved by a propeller pro-peller wheel run by a 24-horse-power electric motor, the propeller turning In the air and moving the carriage at a speed of twenty miles an hour. . The topodict is a combination of a pantograph panto-graph and telescope, by means of which any person can make a drawing in cor rect perspective of any scene before him, even if he. knows nothing what-ever what-ever of drawing. By means of the tele meter the exact distance of far-away objects can be measured and recorded. The "telephone-ears" Is an apparatus by which a ship . .is automatically warned of submarine dangers. By the aid of the thermophile It Is possible to furnish heat by means of a fine electrto wire which can be woven into rugs, blankets or cushions, and all that is required is a very small electric battery. bat-tery. The Inventor claims for It that It will do away with the necessity of ever having fires In even the coldest of weather. Strand. |