inch thick and of infinite variety in pattern are produced with any wished-for outline, to fit the projections and recesses of the apartment for which they may be ordered.
Flexible and malleable glass are no longer scientific curiosities; and toughened glass bells break the night's silence with their sweet chiming of the hours as they fly.
In porcelain and other ceramic wares the long-lost arts of the ancients have been rivalled or revived; and the most exquisite productions of the Land of the Rising Sun duplicated or excelled.
In brewing and wine-making all hurtful compounds are eliminated, and none but the health-giving and gladdening retained.
In mechanics an entirely new principle has been applied; the cold of winter, as well as the heat of summer, being harnessed to do man's work. The scientific engineers of 1925 recognized the fact that in any motor it was the difference between the initial and final temperatures of the steam, gas, or other medium employed, that did the work; this work being the utilizable percentage of that difference in temperature; and acting upon this idea, by 1935
