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- Fresh-Water Hydra
In fresh-water ponds, attached by its base to the under surfaces of aquatic plants, may be found a very small animal, just large enough to be seen without the aid of a lens, usually pale green, but sometimes of a brown color. This is our common hydra, technically called Hydra fusca. It is nothing more than a tube or sac, with a sucker at one end to hold on with, and a mouth at the other, surrounded with[37] from five to eight hollow tentacles or feelers, which opens into a central cavity or stomach. Firm and muscular are the walls of the sac, so that the little creature, which is not fixed permanently to whatever it is found clinging to, may stretch itself out or draw back as its own volition dictates, or move slowly along by means of its sucker, or float easily or contentedly upon the water. But the most remarkable, as well as the most interesting thing about this odd creature is the power which it possesses of overcoming animals more powerful and active than itself. - Menu
- Breakfast
- Barrel Torpedo used at Charleston
Barrel Torpedo used at Charleston, made of an ordinary barrel with ends of solid wood; fired by electricity - Dinner
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- Star-fish Opening an Oyster
When first seen stranded on the shore the Star-fish, by the uninitiated, is thought to be a creature incapable of movement of any kind. But this is far from being the case, for in its native element it moves along the bottom of the sea with the greatest ease, being provided with an apparatus specially adapted for the purpose. Ordinarily its arms are kept upon the same level, but in passing over obstacles that lay in its path, the animal has the power of raising any one of its several arms. Elevations are ascended with the same[42] ease and facility as progression on plane surfaces is effected. - KT or TK
- Chinese Floating Mine
One of two, tied together, with which an attempt was made to blow up H.M.S. Encounter. - Pedrail
The Pedrail, as it has been named, signifies a rail moving on feet. Mr. Diplock, observing that a horse has for its weight a tractive force much in excess of the traction-engine, took a hint from nature, and conceived the idea of copying the horse's foot action. The reader must not imagine that here is a return to the abortive and rather ludicrous attempts at a walking locomotive made many years ago, when some engineers considered it proper that a railway engine should be propelled by legs. Mr. Diplock's device not merely propels, but also steps, i.e. selects the spot on the ground which shall be the momentary point at which propulsive force shall be exerted. - Wine List
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AA - KS
KS - Indian Gipsy calling Jackals
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Transparent PNG - La Morgue
- Early Attempts at Maxim Guns
In all probability each barrel of the first gun had to be loaded separately and fired by hand, one after another. In the second case, the eight little cannon are apparently secured to a kind of turntable, to be revolved by hand. - Confederate Torpedo for Rivers
A, Outer shell. B, Air chamber to keep end up. C, Gunpowder. D, Pistol with trigger connected with rod. E, Rod with prongs to catch vessel coming up stream. F, Iron bands with rings. G, Weights anchoring torpedo. - T
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- GGS
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AA - Rough Diagram, showing Comparative Sizes of Famous Ships at Different Periods
The sizes of these ships can only be shown approximately, as in some cases only the length of the keel is known; in others a mean has to be taken between length of keel and length over-all; while in others the authority does not say where the length was measured. H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth—650 feet long, with a beam of 94 feet—is bigger than all the rest put together.Rough Diagram, showing Comparative Sizes of Famous Ships at Different Periods The sizes of these ships can only be shown approximately, as in some cases only the length of the keel is known; in others a mean has to be taken between length of keel and length over-all; while in others the authority does not say where the length was measured. H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth—650 feet long, with a beam of 94 feet—is bigger than all the rest put together. - Rue des Chantres
- Lifting Insensible Man
- A Boy Scout's Necktie
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- SK or KS
- SK or KS
- The Boy Scout in Action 2
- Princess Pocahontas
- CCH or HCC
- Supper
- Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, d’après Nicolle
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- Le Ministère de la Marine
- Fire Engine
- 'Spotty-face' for Strengthening the Eyesight
- Bain-froid Chevrier
- The 'Struggle' for Strengthening the Heart
- Pharyngeal syringe or salivary pump of Fulgora maculata
Accessory to the salivary apparatus there is on the ventral side of the head, underneath the pharynx, a peculiar organ which the Germans have called the "Wanzenspritze," or syringe. The accompanying figure of the structure in Fulgora maculata shows its relation to the ducts of the salivary glands and to the beak. It is made up of a dilatation forming the body of the pump, in which there is a chitinous piston. Attached to the piston is a strong retractor muscle. The function of the salivary pump is to suck up the saliva from the salivary ducts and to force it out through the beak. - L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame
- L. J.-Marie Bizeul
- Pioneering Scouts in Ashanti
- 'Japanese Cock Fighting' to Strengthen the Legs
- Clement of Scotland burned by the Romanists
- Le Ministère de la Marine -fifth state
- L’Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris
- The boy who apes the man by smoking will never be much good
- Sinking Central Shaft, Hoosac Tunnel
- Camp Kitchen
- Torture
- The gibbet at Stang's Cross
- Rue Pirouette aux Halles (D.49), third state
- Collège Henri IV
- Teaching the Youngsters