Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume VI, Number 30, 23 November 1933 — THE GREAT AND SMALL... HOT AND COLD...ODITIES [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT AND SMALL... HOT AND COLD...ODITIES

The Axnerican Weekly The tailest mountain—Mount Everest, on the northern border of India, lts height being estimated at 29,000 feet. No one has ever elimbed-it. The greatest depth in the sea—Near the Philippine Islands the bottom sinks rnore than 35,000 feet below the ocean's surfaee. Deeper spots may located, but Uiia one holds the record to date. The iongest river system—The combined length ol the Mlssissippi aiid the Missouri total more than 4,220 miles, although the Nile in Egypt and Alrica, runs a close secj>nd, The tailest building—Empire state building in New York City 4 , , The iongest ship—Normandie, recently launehed in France, but not yet put into service, The smaliest working xhodel of a ship was probably aae displayed not long ago in London at a eonvention of model makers~less than a fooi in length. An English meehaiiie made the smallest eleetric iocomotive, less than an ineh long, with an armature that spun at the rate of 12,000 revolutions a minute, and the engine actually ran. The ttoy loeomotive would easily pass through a wedding ring. The iargest electric powerJiouse—No doubt the ptiant of the New York Edison company, whieh, when completed, wili have an 6utput of 1,000,000 horsepower. The largest single generator, }iowever, is in another New York City powerh'>use, at Hell and ean generate all by itsei: the exxormous total of 220,000 horsepower. lt is steam turbi»e driven. Russia holds the record on waterpower generators, the dam and power piant when comp!eted, will have an output of 750,000 horsepower. Undei construction on the Saguenay river in Canada, is another water plant of about the aame size as the Eussian project. Niagara, Falls, long believed to be the greatest voiu»uie in the world, »ow must take second plaee, for Brazilian engineers diselose that the faiis of Guayra, on the Parana river, in Sou + h Aoaenea, has twice the volume of Niagara, is able to generate, even in lpwest water flow, the . unbelievabie amount of 6,000,000 horsepower. Largest electric lamps—Those used in airplane , bfacons burn 10 kjiowatt§, 250 times as mueh as our iittle 40-watt house globes. The smaJtlest ones, i however, may be slipped down the throat of a . patient inside a rubbēr tube that has been swallowed. Physicians use it to examine or even photograph the inside of the stomach, The brighlest iight is from that tiny poirit in one of the gigantic Sperry searchlights now used in army work, almost as bright as a spot of equal size on the sun. (To be continued)