who make pretensions to science, and practical mechanics ... than steam carriages on common roads. An invention to be successful must not only be new, but useful—an improvement.

By Britain’s Imperial Chemical Industries: a new synthetic-wool fiber, called Ardil, made from peanuts. Cheaper than sheep’s wool, Ardil can be mixed with wool, cotton or rayon, is shrinkproof ...

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