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The turbine consists of but two mov- 

 ing parts, a driving member attached 

 to the engine-shaft and a driven member, 

 fastened to the front end of the propeller- 

 shaft of the car. Both members are con- 

 structed exactly alike and are made up 

 of two circular housings with 

 blades or fins radiating from 

 a central rectangular cham- 

 ber. The two members 

 stand apart and touch 

 only at the bearings on 

 the shafts. The space 

 inside the housing is par- 

 tially filled with oil. 

 When the engine of the 

 car is started, the blades 

 of the member attached 

 to the engine force the 

 oil up against the blades 

 of the housing mounted 

 on the propeller shaft so 

 that it, and finally the 

 rear wheels are turned to make the car go. 

 The speed of the car is controlled by the 

 throttle, although the device may be 

 thrown out of contact with the flywheel 

 if it is necessary to shift the gears in the 

 usual manner. 



As long as motor-driven vehicles are 

 used, the quest for im- 

 provements and labor- 

 saving devices will go 

 on, stimulated partly by 

 economic dictates and 

 partly by the inherent 

 inclination in the human 

 race to simplify me- 

 chanical contrivances. 



Making It Easy for Old Dobbin to 

 Eat Out of the Feed Bag 



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The spring keeps the feed 

 bag adjusted so that the 

 horse can get at the oats 



HE feed-bag support invented by 

 William Meier of Jersey City, N. J., 

 is designed to overcome the difficulties 

 invariably connected with the 

 use of the feed bag. This 

 bag is provided with a spring 

 so that it will adjust itself 

 when the food gets out 

 of reach of the horse as 

 it diminishes in quantity. 

 Even under the most 

 favorable conditions part 

 of the oats will be spilled 

 in the horse's attempts 

 to get at it. Mr, Meier's 

 invention consists of a 

 yoke-shaped frame of 

 heavy spring wire, which 

 is suspended from the 

 head and neck of the 

 animal in the manner shown in the il- 

 lustration. The bag is suspended by a cord 

 running through a loop of the spring. 



"Strangler" Lewis, the 

 famous wrestler, uses 

 the dummy for exercise 



Practicing the Head-Hold with a 

 Wooden-Headed Adversary 



BOXING with a dum- 

 my which can't be 

 knocked down is a well- 

 known and recognized 

 form of training for 

 pugilists, but hitherto 

 wrestlers have been 

 rather unprovided for in 

 this respect. Now, how- 

 ever, Mr. B. C. Sandow, 

 of Rochester, New York, 

 has brought out a dum- 

 my head to train a man 

 to give enormous pres- 

 sure in the head-lock. 



This apparatus is a 

 wooden, life-sized head, 

 made in two equal pieces 

 divided down the center 

 of the face. The halves are 

 kept apart by three coil 

 springs. The wrestler 

 practices squeezing the 

 halves together, as he 

 would in the head-lock, 

 until he can conquer the 

 tension of the springs. 



