NEW INVENTIONS.
A POWERFUL i'BOJECTILE. Press Associitiou—Bjr Telejtaph—Copyright, LONDON, March 22. Sir Hosraivl Vincent announces that the lliulliold Stool Foundry lias introduced a now projectile which will pierce any aiiiimif. . DRIVING WARSHIPS ]IY GAS. LONDON, March 22. Messrs Yickeio, Maxim, and Co. have invented a system of driving warships by gas, thus obviating the use of funnels, and {jiving an all-round fire. i'KTROLKUM HAS ENGINE. KKW YORK, March 22. Mr Nixon, an American marine architect, has palened an engine to he worked by petroleum gas. He claim? that its wr will enable vessels to cross the Atlantic ill tout darn.
SKALING MAILUAGR. ADKLAIDK, March 23. Mi.Morlcy, of the Taxation Office, luis invented an effective contrivance for I'losinj; ami sealing mailbags. Its adoption would save the Commonwealth between £10.000 and £15,000 now spent on wax and string.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13860, 25 March 1907, Page 5
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136NEW INVENTIONS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13860, 25 March 1907, Page 5
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