If there is a country which should above all others lose no time in adding the motor to her means of defence, that country is Great Britain.

As the writer has personally inspected a Barry engine, he is able to give a brief account of its action.

The Wolseley Motor-Car Company has established a type of chemical motor fire engine which promises to be very successful.

On arriving at their destination the firemen receive valuable help from the "position indicator," which guides them to their work.

All power gears are so arranged that, in case of a breakdown of the power, a hand-wheel can be quickly brought into play.

The most striking objects on the Vulcan are two huge hydraulic cranes, placed almost amidships abreast of one another.

The most useful sphere for a diver is undoubtedly connected with the harbour work and the cleaning of ships' bottoms.

An "elevator"—nine sacks fixed to one frame—will raise twenty-five to thirty tons.

The pneumatic elevator is often installed on a floating base, so that it may be moved about in a dock.

The development of methods of transportation has gone on simultaneously with the improvement of machinery of all kinds.

Scarcely less important than the rapid transference of materials from one place to another is the quick and accurate weighing of the same.

The Nantes "transporter" over the Loire differs from its fellows in one respect, viz. that it is built on the cantilever or balance principle.

In lifting a ship, as she comes out of the water and gets heavier on the platform, additional discs are taken on by the accumulator ram as required.

The "escalator" (Latin scalae = flight of stairs) hails from the United States, where it is proving a serious rival to the elevator.

The main lines are doubled—an "up" and a "down" track; short branches have one tube only to work the inward and the outward despatches.

Count Piscicelli's electric post is an adaptation of the electric cableway to the needs of parcel and letter distribution.

Agriculture is at once the oldest and most important of all national industries.

Modern methods of dairying demand the most scrupulous cleanliness in all processes.

The Egyptians admired magnitude; the Greeks perfection of outline

Rapidity of fire is only one of the desirable features in a firearm.