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Popular Science Monthly 



Forty-Five Miles an Hour on 

 This Motorcycle Sleigh 



WHILE all the automobiles and other 

 vehicles in his neighborhood were 

 stalled on account of the snow, Clarence H. 

 Lydamore, of Lake Placid in the Adiron- 

 dacks, was hard 

 at work planning 

 to convert his 

 motorcycle into a 

 powerful motor- 

 sled. The result 

 was that soon he 

 was successfully 

 riding into town 

 on business trips, 

 and was sleigh- 

 ing on the lake 

 for pleasure 

 while the other 

 cars were rusting 

 in their garages. 



The conver- 

 sion was simple 

 enough. The 

 front wheel was 

 removed and the 

 sleigh runner 



shown in the photograph was put in its 

 place. A sidecar, also mounted upon a 

 runner, was attached to the motorcycle 

 framework. This served the double pur- 

 pose of providing for another passenger 

 and of preventing the new sleigh from 

 tipping should it skid on the ice or snow. 



On attaching extra heavy anti-skid 

 chains to the driving wheel, the sled was 

 ready for work or play. Over the roads, a 

 speed of forty-five miles per hour has been 

 attained on it. Over the lake, with the 

 assistance of the wind, a party of four 

 has almost doubled this speed. 



The motor-sled, devised 

 and a sidecar, makes 



from a motorcycle frame 

 forty-five miles an hour 



Hot Water in an Instant Is 

 Promised by This Heater 



THERE is a new hot-water heater on the 

 market which comes as near to being 

 "instantaneous" as it seems possible for a 

 heater to be. So cleverly is it constructed 

 that you can draw as much heated water 

 as you want to use without any appreciable 

 "wait" between the pailfuls that you draw. 

 The body of the heater is placed just 

 below your kitchen boiler. It consists of 

 a large globe of comparatively thin iron 

 and a large gas burner secured just below 

 this. A two-way pipe connects the boiler 



with the globe so that the water can flow 

 as easily from the boiler to the globe, as 

 in the other direction. An auxiliary tap 

 connects the bottom of the globe with a 

 faucet. This addition is the principal im- 

 provement which makes the neater differ- 

 ent from others. No sooner has the water 

 in the bottom of 

 the globe become 

 heated than you 

 draw it off 

 through the fau- 

 cet, if you desire. 

 You do not 

 have to wait 

 for the heated 

 water to per- 

 meate slowly up- 

 ward to the top 

 of the boiler, as 

 with the ordi- 

 nary heater. 

 Not that you 

 can't use this ar- 

 rangement as an 

 ordinary heater, 

 too; for if you 

 wish a whole 

 boilerful of hot 

 water, you simply let enough of the 

 water which is being heated in the globe 

 rise through the two-way pipe. 



You could then tap the vater off through 

 the faucet at your sink, or from any of 

 the faucets connected with the piping 

 from the boiler, instead of drawing it 

 off by the pailful from the faucet at the 

 bottom of the heater. 



-Cold water supply pipe 



■Reservoir 

 Connecting conduit 



Recesses 

 Spherical water 

 heater 



Gas heater 

 Hot water faucet 



In a few seconds after the 

 gas is lighted the water 

 in the iron globe is hot 

 and can be drawn off 



