Show BOTTLE new yorker cla ms to have solved problem in S mple manner A scientist some weeks ago stated in an interview that a bottle that could not be refilled had never been invented that it probably never would be invented and that many inventors had gone insane over the problem the interview went the rounds ol 01 the country other scientists agreed the non refillable bottle was in a class with perpetual motion A young man in working clothes called at the sunday telegraph office tuesday afternoon my name is frank waters he said I 1 am a molder in my spare moments I 1 invent things I 1 read in the sunday telegraph that a non re bottle could not be invented wondered if I 1 could do it I 1 sat cellier ce flier tt th s Is walters idea down and thought diligently the problem baffled me I 1 thought hard er and harder one evening I 1 suddenly laughed aloud the easiest and most al way had suddenly come to me then I 1 made the hot tie I 1 took an ordinary bottle whose neck was slightly bulged and filled the neck with stone cement so that when hard it could not come out then I 1 ran tiny pipes through the cement one extending to the bottom of the bottle which I 1 had already filled then I 1 turned it upside down the water ran out of one of the tubes so far so good I 1 took a small tunnel and did my best to return the water to the bottle it was no use I 1 had invented the non refillable hot tie the water Is forced from the hot tie by air which gets behind it through the tube which extends to the bottom of the bottle it is air also which prevents the water from being returned it cannot be forced through either pipe because of the air which sets in through the other the principle can be understood by studying the accompanying diagram new york telegraph |