Electromagnet in War
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Electromagnet in War
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Article Title and/or Image Caption
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Electromagnet in War
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Caption: The electromagnet is used with success by war surgeons to extract spilnters of steel which are near the surface. When used on deeply buried missiles it has been found to make bad wounds, because the fragment tears its way out through the flesh
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ThE electromagnet has long been
used by surgeons to extract splint-
ers from the eye. It has not proved so
serviceable when its use has been extend-
ed to other parts of the body. In the
present war surgeons found that deep-
lying fragments of shrapnel are literally
torn out by the magnet, with the result
that gaping wounds are produced which
are difficult to handle. For that reason
army surgeons, in Germany at least, pre-
fer to restrict the use of the electro-
magnet to those cases in which the steel
splinters lie very near the surface.
A NOVEL device which announces
to the chauffeur any overheating
of his engine is made so that a streamer
is released from the radiator cap to blow
against the windshield. The ribbon is
made of a bright-colored material, and
shows at night as well as in the daytime.
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Lingua
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1916-01
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pagine
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27
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Diritti
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
