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Popular Science Munthly 



Mayor Harry L. Suter playing the violin and the piano at 

 the same time and making satisfactory music, at that 



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The Mayor of Moscow, Ohio, Is the 

 Town's One-Man Orchestra 



N addition to directing the political 

 destiny of Moscow, Ohio, Mayor Harr\- 

 L. Suter is the town's one-man orchestra. 

 He has devised an apparatus which makes 

 it possible for him to pla>- the piano and 

 \iolin siniullaiieoush-. It takes both of 

 Ma\(tr Suter's hands, as well as his elbows, 

 feet, and eyes to keep the two instruments 

 ji;oing in the same musical time, but the 

 results are worthy of his efforts, when 

 one considers that he is an orclieslr.i 

 all by himself. 



When the two instruments are 

 under the spell of the Mayor, 

 the ri^ht hand pla\s the solo 

 part while the bass part of the 

 piano is operated by the left 

 foot coming in contact with a 

 series of pedals siinil.ir to those 

 of an organ. The \iiilin bow is held 

 on a small standard which moves 

 along a groo\'e. A double \ise holds 

 the violin, and the part through 

 which Ma\-or Suter pa.sses his left 

 ■inn cotUrols the \iolin, so that the 

 proper siring will rest against the 

 bow. llie bow is controlled l)\' the 

 right fool, while tlu- lingers of the 

 left h.irid press the strings. T 

 elliiiu iipir.iU-s the "loud |)edal 



Air- Jet Supports a Football 

 in Mid-Air 



THE photograph below 

 shows a fiKJlball sus- 

 pended in mitl-air l)\' an air- 

 jet ha\ing a \elocit\- of one 

 hundred and twent\' miles an 

 hour. Suspended below the 

 football, and attached to it by 

 light wires is a plate which by 

 its pull offers still further 

 resistance to the air current. 

 This exhibition of the sup- 

 porting power of an air-jet 

 was given in Agricultural 

 Hall, London, and the fan 

 used was an ordinary centrif- 

 ugal high-pressure blower 

 with a si.\-inch diameter out- 

 let at the extreme end of the 

 nozzle. 



The phenomenon is ex- 

 plained in the following man- 

 ner; The jet issuing from the 

 nozzle spread out into a cone- 

 shaped formation on being 

 md the ball was held in the 

 The high-pressure jet 



released, 



center of this cone. 



acting upon the surface of the ball, caused 



a slight upward reaction which tended to 



maintain the ball in the air. 



It will be seen that the ball is in the center 

 of the jet and not on the edge of it. This 

 is in contradistinction to the theor\- that 

 the object is suspended b\- cont.ict with the 

 outer strata of air in the jet. The ball is held 

 almost |>erfectl\' at rest in the air-current. 



The ball is held suspended in the 

 center of a cone-shaped air-current 



