What is MENISCUS? The departure from a flat surface where a liquid meets a solid, due to surface tension. The effect can be seen clearly through the wall of a glass tube. The surface of water in air rises up the wall of the tube, while that of mercury is depressed, SIGHT-FEED LUBRICATOR.
An abandoned mud-covered scooter is found during the draining of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, France Charles Platiau/Reuters
exists and is an alternate of . In 1902 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt decided to take on the abandoned works of the Panama Canal that had been started by the French, but the Colombian government in BogotÃ¡ balked at the prospect of a U.S. controlled canal under the terms that Roosevelt's administration was offering.