Since the establishment of the Independence of the Latin-
American States, no year has passed in which they did not increase their
trade relations with foreign nations. The prominence given to the Third
International Conference of the South American States; the postponement
of The Hague Peace Conference; the subsequent appointment...
During the last twenty-five or thirty years the
growth of the fire insurance business of the United
States has been in close correspondence with the increase
in this country of insurable property, and hence
at present, instead of not realizing the advantages of
this form of protection against loss, it...
"In 1862 Secretary Chase recommended a scheme for
the management of National Banks which was modeled
after the New York Act, A bill embodying the principal
measures proposed by the Secretary was passed in
1863. The plan, however, proved to be inoperative,
and was superseded by the Act of June...
Few discoveries of any importance have been the result of a moment's happy coincidence; rather have they been the fruit of many hours of tedious thought and experiment. This is especially true in the realm of organic chemistry. Here, where progress is made only by the most painstaking experimentation, extensive...
Literature is recorded thought or knowledge; the aggregate of books and other publications, in either an unlimited or a limited sense; the collective body of literary productions in general, or within a particular sphere,
period, country or language. In a restricted sense, the
class of writings in which expression and...
As a nation salad is a dish we do not sufficiently
appreciate; while the French perhaps surpass all other countries
in the number and variety of their salads. Their quick ingenuity
seems to enable them to turn almost everything in nature
that is edible into a tempting salad.
Am expert...
A storage battery is a cell. or a series of cells capable of storing up electric energy and giving it off at a required time. A storage battery acts upon the same principle as a galvanic cell in giving forth electric current as the equivalent of chemical energy, but it...
The rapid advancement of electrical science has led it to invade
the field of marine engineering. On ship-board, all ship's lights,
search lights and signal lights are entirely electric. Of power appliances
outside of uses on men of war,ship's ventilation is completely
electric; electric deck winches and boat cranes are...
Electromagnetic engines, or motors, are machines in which the motive power is derived from electric currents by means of their electromagnetic action. The following design is for a 1½ K.W. bi-polar motor.