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 $10.50 a month for this 9 x 2' Junior South Bend Back-Geared Screw Cutting Lathe

Weight 325 lbs. Price with countershaft and equip-ment

$1.50

$30 down, $10.50 per month. Also available on 11″ and 13″ sizes, countershaft drive silent chain motor drive, underneath belt motor drive in bed lengths from 3' to 8⅛', both bench and floor leg tpyes. Practical for manufacturing. also service work on valves, bushings, pistons, differential cases, connecting rods and brake drum work on light cars.

13″ × 4′ Model Junior back-geared scre cutting lathe, weight 980 lbs. Handles brake drum work on Ford, Chevrolet and other light cars. Price with countershaft and equipment $308

$61.00 dtnrn, $21.56 per month.

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change in order to perfect an invention. Take, for example the Young gas gen- erator. Ten years ago, Daniel J. Young, an engineer of Tacoma, Wash., proposed that, in making water gas, the "run" be occa- sionally reversed; that is, that the steam be run through the generator from the oppo- site end. This idea, greeted with laughter by the gas companies, was tried out, and in less than ten years it was adopted by every gas company in the world.

WATER gas is made by passing steam through a bed of red-hot coal. The oxy- gen in the steam combines with the carbon "in the coal, leaving hydrogen, which is made into illuminating gas by adding hydrocarbon elements from oil. Young's "back-run" proc- ess increases the production of gas from a given quantity of coal to such an extent that about ten per cent of the fuel is saved, or approximately three cents on every 1,000 feet of gas manufactured. Figure that out for all the gas plants in the world! All that is necessary to effect this saving is to pipe the steam into the former exit end of the machine. Part of the secret lies in the conversion into useful gas of carbon deposits which, in the old system, were not only wasted but had to be removed at a price. Last July, the Franklin Institute of Phila- delphia conferred its much-coveted Walton Clark medal on Young for his achievement.

Similar was the famous improvement made by Henry A. Adams in the corn-shelling machine invented by his father, Augustus Adams. In the father's machine, the chute into which the ears of corn were fed was often clogged up, despite the fact that rotat- ing fingers had been provided to push the ears downward. A farm hand usually was needed to clear the chute by punching the ears with a stick. Henry Adams merelv rotated the lingers in the opposite direction, and any corn farmer will tell you that no extra hand is needed today to push the ears down the chute.

Or consider Dr. Langmuir's much-discussed high-vacuum tube patent. In 1925, Lang- muir was granted a patent on a vacuum tube which did not differ in any way from those invented and patented previously, except that it was evacuated to a greater degree. In other words, Langmuir succeeded in subtracting almost nothing from nearly nothing and, in a manner of speaking, pat- ented practically nothing at all!

THIS does not mean that his invention was not useful. Quite the contrary. The higher vacuum virtually eliminated ionization in the tube. Let me explain. The operation of a vacuum tube depends on a flow of elec- trons from a heated cathode, or metal ele- ment, to a plate, which is another near-by metal element. That electron flow can take place only when the number of air molecules in the tube is reduced to a point where the electrons have a relatively clear path. If too many air molecules are present, the elec- trons, moving away from the heated ele- ment at terrific speed, strike these molecules and disassociate or ionize them. This ioniza- tion prevents operation of the tube as an electrical oscillator, just as a steel spring would be prevented from ibrating by wrap- ping cotton batting around it.

Acting as an electrical oscillator is the chief function of a vacuum tube, As devised by Lee De Forest, it forms the basis of all modern radio transmission and reception. By producing a more complete emptiness in the tube, Lang- (Continued on page 125)

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