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The new life-guard boat 

 which can not capsize. 

 The man lying down is 

 looking through the glass 

 bottom to locate bodies 



A Life-Boat That Cannot 

 Capsize or Sink 



ANEW life-boat built 

 along the lines of a big 

 surf board, has proved so 

 satisfactory that it has been 

 officially adopted by the city 

 of Long Beach, California. 



The boat, sixteen feet long, 

 forty inches wide and four- 

 teen inches deep, is non- 

 capsizable and self-draining, 

 and is the invention of 

 A. M. Nelsen of Long Beach. 

 It has many advantages over 

 the skiffs now used by the 

 municipal life-guard squad 

 of that city. It can be put 

 through the heaviest surf 

 without waiting for a calm. 

 It has air tanks on both 

 sides, at the ends, and down 

 and has a glass bottom through 

 bodies that may have sunk 

 may be located. With one 

 man paddling, and the other 

 stretched at full length peer- 

 ing through the glass bottom, 

 a body can be located in 

 twenty feet of water and 

 brought to the surface by 

 means of grappling hooks or 

 by diving after it. 



The boat is propelled with 

 double-bladed paddles by two 

 guards. It can make a speed 

 of six miles an hour, and will 

 support twenty people. 



Popular Science Monthly 



A New Machine Husks a« Bushel of 

 Corn a Minute in the Field 



NEW type of corn husker which 

 promises to relieve the farmer of the 

 tedious and disagreeable work of husking 

 corn in the damp fields has just been 

 completed by W. H. Tschantz, of Ohio. 

 The apparatus is driven by a gas en- 

 gine and not only husks the corn but 

 deposits the clean ears in a wagon bin by 

 means of an elevator forming a part 

 of the device and binds up the 

 husks and silks in bundles 

 like wheat, eliminating all litter 

 and loss. 



The apparatus consists of 

 a small four-wheeled wagon 

 on one end of which are 

 mounted the gas engine and 

 a suction blower, with the 

 husker and binder at the other. 

 In operation the wagon is 

 drawn from shock to shock by 

 horse or mule power. The un- 

 husked corn is deposited on 

 one side of the binder. The 

 shock is first torn into small 

 bundles and thrown on the 

 feed board, which carries the 

 bundles up to a series of hori- 

 zontal rollers. Most of the 

 husk is removed while passing 

 through these rollers, and the 

 ears are dropped on to a pair 

 of rollers beneath the husking 

 rolls. Here the silk is removed, 

 after which the clean ear drops 

 through a trough into the base 

 of the elevator, which deposits 

 them in a wagon or other 

 waiting receptacle. 



The buoyant air tanks are 

 at both sides, at the ends, 

 and down the middle. 

 Above: Launching the 

 boat in a heavy surf 



the 



middle, 

 which 



Path of silk from bottom 

 trough to binder 



Blower 

 Binder side' 

 The bundles of corn are thrown on the feed board which 

 carries them to a series of rollers which remove the husks 



