| Show I V Fortunes Offered for Discoveries 1 I H HERE IL RE are the the I largest tg st p prizes izes offered of ot otI t I a a feIed to Inventors andas ye Yet Unclaimed Tb Tho list was C compiled by bythe bythe bi bithe the Scientific American m V The International Ass Association J of Rec Recognized Automobile dUbs Clubs offers about fo for fol a S 1 I tute for gas gasoline as asa a fuel i i. i must be suitable for use in existing Internal combustion m motors tors must bo available in sufficiently large larg quantities quantities and nd must be incapable of f monopolization L by a trust and the tho association will l I lay layno v i ino no no claim to the patent rights rights The British Society of ot Motor 1 Manufacturers Manu Manti- and nd Traders offers an additional addi adIf additional prize of 2000 guineas 9 for lor o- o othis this fuel if it can be ba manufactured pr profitably In Great B Britain The Government of or New Zealand offers 1200 1200 for fol a n more ec economical r way of or making coal w waste ste into bri ri rl- rl V V VV V The m mining int Interests interests' n the Dort Dortmund DOft- DOft mund round district distri t in Germany offer ro for an electric lamp fo for the use use nse ot of coal miners combined with a reliable deJ de de dc J Y V V vice for tor for defecting tig a and d giving warning rf of f pus ls s ses jez The French Frenc r Academy ademy of at Sciences 3 has has jia francs francs francs' given given b by Pierre fierre Guzman which It will award tei to any cue Olle who can devise a a 8 p practicable t cable 1 method 1 thod of or communicating with a J Jany any of our sister planets Mars Mare ex ex- I T Fi The e Academy of ot Sciences of ot Goat GMt th ge Germany hold to be awarded to whomsoever can furnish a i ig general g proof of Fermat's theorem which his is to the effect that in the equation equa equa- J tion a 2 8 1 s z if jf r n stands stands' for or an t integer er w whole ol number greater than 2 no io integral values can bo be found for far x x y dud and nd 2 z This mus must be furnished before Sept ept 1 2007 The French Ac Academy demy of or Sciences awa awards award's ds d's every five years the Jean V 1 Reynaud prize of ot for the best beat original work in mathematics V The ho Conservatory of or Arts Aits and Trades Paris has still about left eft of ot the Pollock l o k f fund nd for pr promoting m lingl I the he invention of appliances to 5 save sava P Phuman human lil life a at sea j r. r J |