New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 13

are set into set, inon pan at- ront knit sliy 1sing the scal- the fash- rayon - has aring at is Into " Oy Z R R, § E § E f L e Z Does the Honey Bee Hold the Secre of Longer Life for Man? Science’s Task Is to Find the Elemental Content of “Royal Jelly, " the Predigested Semi-Liquid Upon Which the Queen Bee Is Nutured to Maturity and Which, It Is Believed, Produces a Span of Life from Six to Eight Times Greater Than That of the Ordinary Honey Bee, and Then Develop a Synthetic “‘Royal Jelly,” Cspable of Similar Reaction Upon the Human Body. A Honey Bee Upon the Wing, Showing the Pos of Its Middle Legs When They Touch and Pat Down the Masses of Pollen. UPER-MEN ten feet tall and living more than two hundred years! Such will be the men of the future if scientists are successful in wresting from the honey bee the secret of long life and greater stature. Medical science, alert to the pos: bilities which may lurk in the most commonplace phases of ant and animal life, is hot on the trail of an amazing discovery in the beehive. The task that confronts the scientists is to discover the elemental content of royal jelly, that predigested semi-liquid upon which queen bees are nurtured to maturity, and which, apparently, pro- duces a life span six to cight times reater than that of the ordina: oney-maker. Another step will be to discover if royal jelly, so potent as bee food, is capable of similar ch reaction upon the human body. If so, a third task will be to disc r means of manufacturing synthetic royal jelly in volume sufficient to meet the vast de- Seeking a .SJ_J’TUTE fo “Syntho- carbon,” the New Substitute for Gasoline. Is Made of a Mixture of Coke and Peat. It Is Poured Into a Specially Built Tank on the Car and Heated to Generate the Gas to Drive the Vehicle. The New Fuel Burns Without Soot. UCCESSFUL experiments have recently been made in Gerr with a substitute for g called “synthocarbon.” It is ture of charcoal, coke and peat. Meant especially for automobile fuel, it is put up for sale in paper sacks, conveniently for the motor use. All he has to do is to pour mixture into a tank on the car. The tank has at its bottom a burner, where- by the mixture is heated and i to give off a gas whose expansion drives the machine. The “synthocarbon” burns witho soot, and, it is claimed, develops twice the. power -of gasoline relatively to cost. Ernest Godward, a young New Zea land inventor, recently America a device which he thin save motor car owners in the Unit A Motor Surfboard NOVEL type of aquaplane or A surfboard has been patented by Charles O. Johnson, of Britta torp, Sweden. It is entirely of metal, hollow, with a flat deck on which the swimmer lies The bottom tap upward at the f ward end. A haped open the bottom toward the stern accom modates a propeller and its shaft. Connected to the rear end of the deck is a rod bent upward at right angles and terminating in a large kno! This rod is straddled by the swimmer, who is protected from contact with the propeller by a guard. Inside the hollow body of the craft is a small electric or gasoline motor which drives the shaft of the propeller At the bow end, on top, are the starter and other controls for the motor. In- let and exhaust pipe, one within the other, are supported above the aqua plane at the bow. The swimmer lies on the de: legs extending backward into the wa- ter. He statts the motor and the surf- board is propeled by the screw. @ nd that would follow. Dr. Frederick G. Banting and Professor H. F. Jack- son, of the U ty of Toronto, have acce t investigat- ing the life-prolonging possib s of royal jelly. Dr. Banting, although y already has impressed h scientific genius upon the world, hav- ing won the Nobel Prize in medic in 1923 as discoverer of insulin, used g diabetes, and hailed as one eatest medical discoverers of modern times. The appearance of a freak queen bee in a hive belonging to John I. Mec- ard claims that his invention enables the ordinary gasoline motor to run on cheap fuel oil, such as is used in oil burning furn This apparatu ular Science Monthly pot in which is set a thin, curved pl central core Vict fly to dust in t robably there of the du accountable but ju The nevw the prote Other ty f used, but the important point i the inspired air shall be du A contrivance designed for this pur- pose make porta- s a small rof and a du thur, Jr., one of the leading api 3 of Ontario, is responsible for the re- search movement, ording to a con- tributor to London Tit-Bi The insec :d atterition because its gres i s much larger than the ordinary gueen bee. Examination showed that while po: g the upper body of an ordinary worker bee, the ins equipped with the delicate lower structure of a queen. or years apiarists have known that r GASOLINE exhaust. ¢ oil, drawn through buretor, s over the surface of > warm pl where it is con: verted into dry gas before reaching the nders. The inventor designed a wple apparatus to test the efficiency of motors. It measures the unburned gas coming from the exhaust pipe. Twenty Philadelphia buses have been equipped with the invention and have run 300,000 miles over steep, hilly Six hundred addi- tional interurban buses of that city are being fitted to burn the heavy oil Motors burning the new fuel are said to start as quickly as when using gaso: line and to show an increase of as s fifteen per cent in horsepower. the device can use ther oil or g In other t were ope- rated on heavy oil instead of gasoline. Dr. Joseph S. Ames. of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronauti predicts that eventually special Diese zines burning the s expensive fuel may be installed in airplanes. in the e%z al is no « ¢ bet destined to be quee to sult, but in n v the difference in appearance is so marked as to be un- mistakable. “This particular s of both nd the Is of the hive determine 1 be quee and which worker ely by the struc ture of the cell in which th2 old quee has laid her egg and thé type of food fed to the nursling. “What are the elements in this strange royal jelly which, when fed to a bee larva, makes a queen cf her, with a life span of from three to five year: while a worker bee, which gets none of the royal jelly during the development period, grows to a size hardly two- thirds that of the queen and ordinarily lives only a single season? The drones or males seem to have longer life than workers, but are never on a parity with the queen in size “Undoubtedly the secret of the queen bee’s high development and long life lies in the food given her by the bee nursemaids.” vancois Huber, the blind Swiss ist of a century ago, was pe e first to discover the myster ous alchemy of royal jelly. He kid- [_\-Vhat Inventors Are Doing W doorkneb provid. venient lock, which operates when the button is pressed. It de by ly turn- knob, but a key is needed to a con- n the in e e which is intended as a iinst thiev and o gaining entrance to a house, of the house is alone, of pretending to be errand, is a ] metal nstalled in the rance dos and ordinarily kept closed. the doorbell rings the housewife can before opening the door and giving an opportunity for calling on a door, ent ims of Asthma filter—the box being connected by a rubber tube to the mask or respirator worn by th \matic person. Th :em very uncomfortable, hat will give relief to a hma is a blessing. The Asthma Mask Is Connected With a Tube to a Portable Box Which Containe a Small Rotating Motor Fan and a Dust-Filter, entrance, open the small metal door in this device and see who is on the outside. If she is uncertain about the person there she can interview the ough the device w ut open- he door and risking an. intrusion. PR Two new devices have been brougl out by a leading manufacturer of ele; trical equipment, which will add to the convenience of home ment. The first of these is the switch- tap and pilot light. This one unit combines a ch, an outlet and a warning light. A plug may be in serted in the outlet which is then given rter turn to switch on the power. ewel light is a constant warn the light is on. The second device an improved type of pull socket, h: a simplified mechanism smoother action and trouble-free service. It has a one-piece porcelain body, a simplified ratchet anism and the commutator con from one piece of me New X-Ray Marvel NEW X-ray ¢ enables a surgeon to see his patient’s in- terior in the “round,” and not flat as hitherto. This new instrument, scopic X-ray, which, it is pred revolutionize medical science, is discovery of Mr. A. T. K. London electrician It is claimed that this n makes it possible to see the exact position of fractures and will obviate the risks of delicate operations. Much of the dread of the surgeon’s knife will pass, because there necd no longer be a chance that the knife will cut a fraction too deeply. Under the stereo- scope the surgeon knows to within the smallest fraction of an inch how deep he has to cut Ordinary X-ray apparatus. it is pointed out, shows a picture of only two dimensions—Ilength and breadth The stereoscope apparatus offers a complete solution of the problem of obtaining a shadow picture in relief to its true rclationship. In the case of a patient lying on his back, it is not ary to turn him over to examine E All that the surgeon is now required to do is to press a switch, and a reverse view is immediately obtained. Newspaper Featurs Service 1929, naped the que waited. A BICYCLE That A nary worker menu. ime apiarists have plete experiments, teed royal jelly and have been young worker to all intents f n height, strong as now 4 with life spans of 250 to 1,000 years! ave made a study have found the insect a social life surpris- ying the type of since been her eggs are ilized eggs The food tter determines me the under- the fully-devel- i three or four . Itgrows like as it touches the b is a part of the regular honey ter six days the ged. Larvae in the are farger and e the others, are fed the rich, sticated royal se in ord s are fed The result is ing process. 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