SOME RECENT INVENTIONS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7738, 18 April 1896, Page 6 (Supplement)

SOME RECENT INVENTIONS.

A typewriter tor the use of the blind has been invented. It works like an ordinary typewriter impressing the print of the letters, but also makes a raised cut on the side by which the blind can read, fatter written in this way can be used both by the blind and those who can see.

A reel and meter for measuring either wire or rope, which is somewhat jv novelty, has recently been placed on, ths. market. The wire passes between two rollers, which automatically ad'iist themselves ijo, any size of wire. The pointers are movable and readily adjusted to the zero point. The standard size of meter registers to 1000 feet. A bicycle bell attached to the outer end of one of the handles, without disfiguring it or offering any impediment to the freo use of the handle bar, while while it affords sufficient volume of sonnd for practical purposes, it comprises a combined handle and alarm bell, which may be placed on the handle bar instead of one of the ordinary handles. The device is made to fit various sizes of handle bars.

A stove which furnishea not only the heat, bat also, th.3 olectn'«al ourrrent for lighting a room, has been invented by Dj. Girand, of Chantiily, France. This tbermo-eleotric stove has the oatward appearance of a cylinder provided with ribs. The ribs seive for the abundant radiation of heat and to promote tho circulation of air in the. jo-oin. In the hollow space heivueeu the outer and inner wall qX t&e stove tho elements of tfya theumo-olectrical column are arranged in rings above each other, so as to surround the stove in its entire hight.

The kinematograpfo has been invented by M. Lumiere, oE Paris,

which is a great improvement on the kinteoscope. The principal feature is a mechanism by which the film is at rest during two thirds of the time of pas sage of each image: in the remaining third it is seized and carried forward to" the next image by a set of teeth attached to a frame whose motion is governed by a cam worked by a revolving handle. There is also an arrangment for projecting the image upon a screen so as to be visible to many persons at once. The same apparatus serves as a camera for taking the photographs and for printing transparencies from the negative film.