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Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Anonymous Retrospect of the Tear 1908 . . . . . . 2--3
Anonymous Carrier Pigeons as Photographers . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Moving Pictures that Sing and Talk . . . 5--5
Anonymous Tidal Wave Making on the Stage . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Miniature Railroads for Country
Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
Marcus Benjamin Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Improved Refrigerating Apparatus . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Whip Socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Spring Drawer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Combined Case and Post for Tennis Nets 11--11
Anonymous An Improved Hinge . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Practical and Instructive Scientific
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 192--195
Anonymous The New Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous American and British Turbines . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous The Second Sea Power --- America or
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Possibilities of the Fusible Core
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
H. Prime Kieffer and
C. E A Movable Lock for Inclined Canals . . . 184--185
Anonymous Explosive Energy of a Boiler . . . . . . 185--186
Frederic R. Honey Morning and Evening Stars for 1909 . . . 186--187
Orrin B. Dunlap The Recent Subsidence of Niagara Falls 187--187
Anonymous United States Life-Saving Steamer
``Snohomish'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Anonymous The Isna Barrage across the Nile . . . . 189--191
Anonymous Improved Vehicle Wrench . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Device for Operating Window Shutter . . 191--191
Anonymous Kettle Still . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous A Novel Electric Motor . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Improved Garment Hanger . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Anonymous A Tribute to Roosevelt's Technical
Judgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous A Cruiser without Funnels . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Ventilation of Passenger Coaches . . . . 198--198
Anonymous A Successful Friction Clutch . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous The Projector in Surgery . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Gas-Driven Battleships and Cruisers . . 201--201
Anonymous A Peculiar Optical Phenomenon . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Did the ``Republic'' Carry Searchlights? 202--202
Anonymous The Airship of the Future . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Stress in a Vacuum Balloon . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous The Earthquake in Italy . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Curiosities of Numbers . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
William Allen The M'Call's Ferry Hydro-Electric Power
Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--205
Anonymous Test of the Bell Tetrahedral-Cell
Aeroplane in Nova Scotia . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous A Wirelessly-Controlled Torpedo . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Edward Thorpe A Cheaply-Constructed Fireless Cooker 207--207
I. G. Bayley Furnishing the Workshop --- IV . . . . . 207--207
Frederick E. Ward An Electrical Fireless Cooker . . . . . 207--208
F. D. Sweet Home-Made Blowpipe . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
A. R. Van Der Veer Unscrewing a Tight Jab Top . . . . . . . 208--208
J. Carlton Paulmier Construction of a Selenium Cell . . . . 208--208
Albert F. Bishop Home-Made Brass Furnace . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
Anonymous The Menace of the Noiseless Gun . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Opportunity for American Steel
Construction at Messina . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous The Subway Situation . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Limitations of the Hydroplane . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Aviation in America and the
\booktitleScientific American Trophy . . 218--218
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Improved Forms of the Buggy-Type
Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Anonymous The Schneider Torpedo-Launching Station 222--222
Anonymous Accuracy in Scientific Diction . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous From the Track-Walker's Standpoint . . . 222--223
Anonymous The Locust Tree: An Important Field for
Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Charles B. Haywood What is the Selden Patent? . . . . . . . 223--225
Anonymous First Aid to Those Injured by
Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Progress of the 20,000-Ton ``North
Dakota'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Alfred P. Morgan An Interesting Experiment and Its
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
J. O. Brouillet Home-Made Spring Winder . . . . . . . . 228--228
I. G. Bayley Forging a Masthead or Boom Ring . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 252--255
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Flying
Machine Trophy for 1909 . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous The Highway and the Automobile . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Close of the Fourth Dimension Contest 238--238
Anonymous Rainmaking by Dynamite . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
R. W. Wood The Mercury Telescope . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Anonymous Superiority of Lock to Sea-Level Canal 241--242
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Flying
Machine Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous Governmental Income and Outgo . . . . . 243--243
Walter L. Beasley The Navy's Dummy Drill Gun . . . . . . . 244--244
Day Allen Willey The Ice of the Arctic Waters . . . . . . 244--246
Deshler Welch Tobogganing at Caux, Switzerland . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Engine Aliner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Adjustable Head for Piano Hammers . . . 247--247
Anonymous Apparatus for Treating Rubber . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Valve for Flush Tanks . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Anonymous The German Crown Prince as an Inventor 248--248
Anonymous Improved Oar Lock . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Reciprocity in Patent Laws . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Kitchen Sink Cover . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Pneumatic Milk Can . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 268--271
Anonymous Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 258--258
Anonymous To Test Full-Sized Compression Members 258--258
Anonymous The So-Called ``Dreadnought'' Craze . . 258--258
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Charles B. Hayward An Enormous Induction Coil . . . . . . . 260--261
Anonymous Floating Lights of Inland Waters . . . . 261--262
Anonymous Aerial Defense Artillery . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous End Versus Center Doors for Exit on
Subway Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Seaworthiness of Passenger Steamships 263--263
Anonymous Defects in Motor-Sleighs . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Our New 26,000-Ton Battleships . . . . . 263--265
J. Mayne Baltimore Regrading a City by Means of Hydraulic
Sluicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
I. G. Bayley Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
K. R. Henry The Handy Man in the Factory . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 284--287
Anonymous The New Hudson River Steamer ``Robert
Fulton'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous The Renaissance of the Spanish Navy . . 274--274
Anonymous Center Versus Side Door Cars . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Recent Flights of Germany's First
Zeppelin Military Airship . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous The Fourth Dimension Essays . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous A Life-Line Air Cannon . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous The Filtration of City Water Supply . . 276--276
Anonymous Detecting Underground Streams with an
Ear-Trumpet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
W. Henry Sheak Pythons and Their Prey . . . . . . . . . 277--278
Anonymous The Commercial Possibilities of the
Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous A Problem in Mechanics . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Stereoscopic Illusion . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous New Type of Sub-Surface Torpedo Boat . . 280--280
Anonymous The Queensboro and Manhattan Bridges
across the East River . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Alfred Gradenwitz A Life Preserver for Balloonists . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous A Novel Frying Device . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous An Improved Rat Trap . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous A New Railroad Spike . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous A Simple Drawer Stop . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 301--302
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 304--307
Anonymous The Fulton Airship Flight Contest . . . 290--290
Anonymous Brick Roads for the Automobile . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Steamship Vibration . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Why Not the Electric Fire Engine? . . . 290--290
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous The Turbines of the Battleship ``North
Dakota'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Percy Collins The Eyes of Animals . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Anonymous Rainmaking by Explosion . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Formulæ for Obtaining Integral Sides of
Right-Angled Triangles . . . . . . . . . 295--295
William H. Raymond The Alaska--Yukon Exposition . . . . . . 296--298
Anonymous An Experiment with a Glider . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
K. Ragan Chemical Flasks from Electric Light
Globes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
E. F. Pabody, Jr. Rotagons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
R. V. Heuser Novel Heat Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Charles Lurcott Another Joint for Handy Man's work Bench 300--300
G. W. Naylor A Remedy for Loose Wood Screws . . . . . 300--300
H. D. Chapman Hardening Copper . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
Anonymous The ``Dreadnought'' Competition . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Economic Loss through the Mosquito . . . 310--310
Anonymous The Hudson--Fulton Celebration . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Wilbur Wright's Flights in Italy . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
William L. Hill Demolition of the Facade of the Old B. &
P. Rr. Terminal, Boston . . . . . . . . 312--312
J. F. S. Springer Experiments in Ingot Casting . . . . . . 313--314
Anonymous Glass Industry of the United States . . 314--314
Anonymous The Pearl Fishery of Ceylon . . . . . . 316--318
Anonymous A House-to-House Mirror System . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
I. G. Bayley Tools for the Workshop. --- I . . . . . 320--320
Gustave Michaud Milk Testing without Apparatus . . . . . 320--320
Anonymous Some Interesting Models . . . . . . . . 320--320
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 340--343
Anonymous The Truth about the German
``Dreadnoughts'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous ``House Fly'' should be Called ``Typhoid
Fly'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Reducing the Noise of Elevated Roads . . 330--330
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous The Amphibicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous A New Class of Submarines for the United
States Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous The New Croton Falls Reservoir . . . . . 333--334
Anonymous Submarine Wrecking Vessel . . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Steering of Ships . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Percy Collins Tricks with Soap Bubbles . . . . . . . . 336--337
F. C. Perkins The Great Ice Jam at Niagara . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 359--363
Anonymous Distorted Bridge Stories . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Signaling to Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Direct-Current Versus Single-Phase
Traction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous A Tool for Boring Square Holes . . . . . 348--348
Orrin E. Dunlap Dynamiting the Niagara Ice Jam . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Why Drunken Men always See Double . . . 350--350
Anonymous The Discoverers of the Hudson . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Wells and Darwin, and the Doctrine of
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Recent Successful French Monoplanes . . 352--352
Anonymous The Winning Motor Boats at Monaco . . . 352--352
Anonymous The Electric Aerial Mono-Rail up the
Wetterhorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Boiler-Tube Cleaner . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Delivery Apparatus for Mail Cars . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Back Pressure Reducer . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Anonymous The Earthquake Disaster . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous The Wright and Voisin (Farman) Flying
Machines Compared . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous A New Rifle-Propelled Grenade . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous A Tunnel-Boring Machine . . . . . . . . 20--20
Herbert T. Wade The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Anonymous A Novel Camera for Making Moving
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Good Roads and the Price of Food . . . . 23--23
Anonymous A Novel Filtration Plant . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Cleaning Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous A Multi-Hull Ocean Steamship . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Krupp Steel Works of To-Day . . . . 24--25
S. A. Mitchell The Peculiar Behavior of Morehouse's
Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Frederick K. Lord How to Build a Scooter . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Anonymous A Cement Grindstone . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
W. J. C. Further Details of the Home-Made Vacuum
Cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
L. Gessford Handy Coasting Skates . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
August Mencken Reducing the Range of a Rifle . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous The Next Issue of Handy Man's Workshop 29--29
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
Anonymous A Long-Delayed Tribute . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Our Stupendous Railway System . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Comparative Tests of the Scout Cruisers 366--366
Anonymous Return of the Wright Brothers . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Cork-Lined Fabric --- a Textile Novelty 368--368
Anonymous A New Color-Photography Process . . . . 368--368
Anonymous The Most Powerful Locomotives Ever Built 369--370
Frederic R. Honey The Lunar and Solar Eclipses in June,
1909 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous The New German Photography . . . . . . . 371--371
Jacques Boyer The Palace of Mirages . . . . . . . . . 371--372
M. Homolle The Excavations at Delphi . . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous Goblets of Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
O. D. Carter Holder for Grinders . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
I. G. Bayley Tools for the Workshop --- II . . . . . 375--375
Alfred P. Morgan A Tantalum Detector . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
J. A. Bergstrom Thread Cutting without a Die . . . . . . 376--376
W. C. M'Kenzie A Simple Method of Constructing a Handle 376--376
John W. E. Laker Method of Patching a Boiler . . . . . . 376--376
Joseph N. Parker Pencil Sharpener . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Arthur E. Hagarty Coppering Flowers without Wax . . . . . 376--376
W. J. C. Blue-Print Washer . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Putting on a New Clutch Leather . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Anonymous The Turbine the Complement of the
Compound Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Futile Criticisms of the Lock Canal . . 386--386
Anonymous Conditions of the Battleships after the
Long Cruise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Ornamentation in Lake-Dwellers'
Habitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Horace C. Hovey Kaemper's Discoveries in the Mammoth
Cave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous A Wonderful Model of the Strasburg Clock 389--390
B. R. Winslow Feeding the American Army . . . . . . . 390--391
Anonymous A Rack and Pinion Problem . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Sulphate of Copper as a Fungicide . . . 391--391
Anonymous The ``North Dakota's'' Turbines . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Col. J. J. Astor's Vibratory
Disintegrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Rowland Ashford Phillips The Sigafoos Tunnel Machine . . . . . . 393--394
Anonymous Injury to the Turbines of the Scout
``Salem'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Charles F. Holder The Flying Gurnards . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Alexander Petrunkevitch Latrodectus --- The Poisonous Spider . . 395--395
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 412--415
Anonymous To Keep the Peace . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Station Announcers on Trains . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Comparison of Steam and Producer-Gas
Marine Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Defense Against Dirigibles . . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous The New Knippels Bridge at Copenhagen 404--404
J. F. S. Springer Fluid Compression of Steel Ingots . . . 405--406
Anonymous The New United States Battleship
``Mississippi'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Slipping of Wheels on Curves . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Some More Lunar Superstitions . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Signaling to Mars with Mirrors . . . . . 407--407
Jacques Boyer The Manufacture of French Postage Stamps 407--409
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Can-Filling Machine . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Poultry-Picking Machine . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Self-Cleaning Brush . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 429--430
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 430--430
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patent . . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous A Word to Aeroplane Builders . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Naval Programme for 1911 . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous The Proposed New Waterway in Canada . . 418--418
Anonymous Storage of Coal under Water . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous The Bursting of a Water Tank and Its
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Anonymous A Novel French Aeroplane . . . . . . . . 421--421
Anonymous Some New American Aeroplanes . . . . . . 421--422
Anonymous The Speed of the ``Mauretania'' . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Auroras: Some Recent Theories . . . . . 424--424
C. H. Claudy Making the Eye of Science . . . . . . . 425--425
Harold J. Shepstone Excavations at Jericho, Palestine . . . 426--426
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous A Simple Method of Measuring the Speed
of Photographic Shutters . . . . . . . . 427--427
I. J. Kavanaugh A Substitute for Tinfoil in Leyden Jars 427--428
Thaleon Blake Ways to Brace Poles for Private
Telephone Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
W. D. Graves The Driving of a Nail . . . . . . . . . 428--428
W. Parkhurst and
K. Parkhurst Scroll-Saw Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
L. G. Handy Gage for Augers . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 448--451
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 449--449
Anonymous The Waste of our Natural Resources . . . 438--438
Anonymous Fewer Broken Rails . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous A New Fire-Alarm System for New York . . 438--438
Anonymous Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Jacques Boyer Belin's Improved Apparatus for the
Electrical Transmission of Pictures . . 440--440
J. F. Springer Is the Earth's Shape Changing . . . . . 441--442
Anonymous Impressions of American Inventors. ---
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous Experiments with Hydroplanes or Skimmers 444--445
Victor Barton Artificial Rubies . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
Alfred Gradenwitz An Automobile Trolley-Repair Truck . . . 446--446
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Frederick E. Ward A Simple Medical Coil . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--471
Anonymous Longer Piers for Ocean Steamships . . . 454--454
Anonymous Lighter Than Air . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous The Award of the Fourth-Dimension Prize 454--454
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
William Austin Cannon Studying the Desert Plant by
Experimental Methods . . . . . . . . . . 456--456
Walter Kendall Improvements in the De Forest System of
Wireless Telephony . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Development of the Transatlantic
Steamship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Anonymous The Aeronautic Society's First Curtiss
Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
Day Allen Willey Los Angeles 200-Mile Conduit Water
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Method of Correcting Faulty Acoustic
Properties of Public Halls . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Combined Life Bail and Gutter for
Swimming Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Expansion Cutter-Head for Boring Brass 463--463
Anonymous Distributer for Grain Bins . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Sanitary Milk and Cream Saving Device 463--464
Anonymous A New Automobile Lock . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Apparatus for Determining Density . . . 464--464
Anonymous Automatic Starting Device for Siphons 464--464
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 484--484
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 485--485
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 485--485
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 486--491
Anonymous Bearing of the Soo Canal Accident on
Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Queensboro Bridge a Safe Structure . . . 474--474
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Some Tricks of the Moving Picture Maker 476--477
Anonymous The Metropolitan Tower and the
``Zeppelin II'' Two Striking Comparisons 478--478
Anonymous Large vs. Moderate-Sized Battleships . . 479--479
Anonymous Pipes in Bail Ingots . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous Signaling to Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
W. H. Lawton Felling a Water Tank . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
Alfred Gradenwitz A Motor Plow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous Recent French Aeroplanes and their
Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--481
Anonymous The Construction of the Zeppelin Airship 481--481
M. M. Hunting A Machine that Sets Ordinary Type . . . 482--482
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
I. G. Bayley A Convenient Carrying Arrangement for a
Drawing Outfit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 69--69
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
Anonymous The 1909 Automobile . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous Standardizing the Automobile . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous Growth of the Automobile Industry . . . 40--41
Anonymous Alloy Steels and Automobile Durability 41--41
Anonymous Cost of Running a Car . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous Selecting a Car . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous The Buggy Type Automobile . . . . . . . 41--41
Benjamin Rogers The Commercial Truck vs the Horse . . . 42--43
Roger B. Whitman High Tension Ignition by Magneto . . . . 44--45
Orrel A. Parker Our Legion Tires and their Trouble . . . 46--46
Thomas D. Hanauer Automobile Lubrication --- Some
Elementary Principles . . . . . . . . . 48--49
E. W. Roberts The Two-Cycle Automobile Motor . . . . . 50--50
George Heron Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Anonymous Scraping Carbon from the Piston Heads 53--53
Anonymous Relining the Brake Shoes . . . . . . . . 53--53
Anonymous When a Lost Nut Cannot be Replaced . . . 53--53
Anonymous Getting Home with a Weak Battery . . . . 53--53
Anonymous Some Automobile Novelties . . . . . . . 58--58
Anonymous A Novel Carrying Case for Automobile
Tires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
Anonymous A New Suspension for Automobiles . . . . 58--58
Anonymous A Novel Speed-Changing Gear . . . . . . 58--58
Anonymous Automobile Notes and Suggestions . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Correcting a Leaky Carbureter Float
Valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Getting Home with a Broken Universal
Joint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Suppressing Rattle in Brakes, Mud
Guards, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous A Novel Gasoline Strainer . . . . . . . 66--67
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Anonymous The Naval Programme for 1909 . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Our Decadent Merchant Marine . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous The Traffic of a Great City . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
George Forrest The Submarine Mine . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous Aeroplanes and Motors at the First Paris
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W. J. Murray The Scientific Aspect of Earthquakes and
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Anonymous Aeroplanes in Warfare . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Multi-Hull Steamships . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous The Meat Industry of America --- I . . . 84--86
Anonymous Concrete Steel Caissons . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Curious Life Histories . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
W. J. C. Mending a Cracked Bottle . . . . . . . . 88--88
A. C. Laurence A Hydraulic Test for the Boiler . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 105--105
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Anonymous The Gatun Dam Misrepresentations . . . . 94--94
Anonymous The Ninth Annual Automobile Show in
Madison Square Garden . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous The Labor Involved in Liquefying Helium 94--94
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous The British Army Aeroplane . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Roger B. Whitman Taximeter Frauds . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Clay Products of the United States . . . 98--99
Anonymous Automatic Block Signals . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous The Meat Industry of America --- II . . 99--102
L. Lodian Some Breads of Other Lands . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Milk-Bottle Holder . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Device for Testing Eggs . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Flowing Oil Wells by Compressed Air . . 104--104
Anonymous Finger-Developing Device . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Vehicle Wheel Sled Runner . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Lessons of the ``Republic'' Disaster . . 110--110
Anonymous France and the Aeroplane . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous The ``Trust'' System as Applied to
Scientific Research . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
W. Frank M'clure The Industrial Use of the Lifting Magnet 112--112
Edward C. Sherman The Improvement of the Charles River at
Boston Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
S. A. Mitchell A Sensitive Thermometer . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous That Aerolite Again . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Are Filtering Beds Correctly
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Anonymous The Physical Energy of the House-Fly . . 116--116
A. Lay Present Conditions in the Panama Canal
Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Charles Lurcott How to Wind a Spaced Coil Spring . . . . 120--120
C. A. Pitkin A Joint for the Work Bench . . . . . . . 120--120
T. Fagan Patch for Kitchen Boilers . . . . . . . 120--120
Fred G. Warner Another Method of Making Metal Lamp
Shades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Stopcock of Glass Tubing . . . . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous Simple Support for Bicycles . . . . . . 121--121
A. V. Searing, Jr. How to File Round Work . . . . . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous How to Mend a Hammock or Fishing Net . . 121--121
Anonymous A Fire-Plug Wrench . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
William Hooper How to Solder Aluminium . . . . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous Straightening Buckled Castings . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Anonymous The Lock-and-Lake Canal Approved . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Cuba's Debt to our Engineers . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Congress and Military Aeronautics . . . 130--130
Anonymous The High-Pressure Fire Automobile . . . 130--130
Anonymous The New York Motor Boat Show . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Jacques Boyer Projecting Moving Pictures in the Light 132--132
Anonymous An Egyptian Steam Cultivator . . . . . . 133--133
Frederic R. Honey The Opposition of Mars in 1909 . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous The Practical Side of Aerial Locomotion 135--135
Anonymous Comparison of Wright and Voisin
Aeroplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous More Curious Facts about Numbers . . . . 135--135
Anonymous The Aurora Borealis and Morehouse's
Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Magnetism and the Aurora . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Novel Life-Saving Apparatus . . . . . . 136--136
William Atherton Du Puy Road Building by the United States in
Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Jacob Reighard Photographing Animals under Water . . . 138--139
Anonymous A New Direct-Reading Photometer . . . . 139--139
Anonymous A \$250 Prize for a Wet-Grain Conveying
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 158--163
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Lessons and Results of the Battleship
Cruise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous The Electric Potentiality of Fruit and
Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Pseudo-Volcanic Eruptions . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Comparative Strength of the Navies of
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Anonymous Our System of Seacoast Fortifications 149--150
Anonymous The Silent Gun --- Counterpart of
Smokeless Powder . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Santiago and Atlantic Fleets Compared 150--151
Anonymous The Extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee
St. Paul Railway to the Pacific Coast 151--152
Anonymous Carnegie Institution Magnetic Survey of
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Composition of the Fleet which Sailed
around the World . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous A Yacht Designer's Opinion of the Navy
Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Alcoline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous A Combination Anchor . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous The Itinerary of the Cruise . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 176--179
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Engineers Report in Favor of Lock Canal 166--166
Anonymous Double-Side-Door Trains on the Subway 166--166
Anonymous Consolidation of the Naval Bureaus . . . 166--166
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous A ``Putting-On'' Tool . . . . . . . . . 168--168
S. P. Fergusson The Exploration of the Upper Air by
means of Ballons Sondes . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous Impressions of American Inventors --- I,
Thomas A. Edison . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Motoring on Runners . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
John A. Bergstrom Home-Made Adjustable Socket for Tungsten
Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
I. Q. Bayley Furnishing the Workshop --- III . . . . 175--175
E. E. Clock Bicycle Coasting Sled . . . . . . . . . 175--175
B. A. Johns How to Drill through Brick and Soft
Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
George E. Huggins Another Method of Reducing the Range of
a Springfield Rifle . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Anonymous Fact and Fancy in Aeronautics . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The Cape Cod Canal . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The Copyright Act . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained 6--6
Anonymous The Cotton Industry of the United States 7--8
Anonymous The ``Michigan'' --- Our First
``Dreadnought'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Herbert T. Wade A Museum to Illustrate the Development
of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous A Huge Filtered Water Reservoir for
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Morris Rader To Install a Motor in a Small Boat . . . 13--13
August Mencken Handy Man's Surveying Instrument . . . . 13--13
Charles A. Umoselle A Home-Made Spray Outfit . . . . . . . . 13--13
J. A. Bergstrom How to Mend Garden Hose . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous A Good Substitute for Leather Belting 13--13
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 166--171
Anonymous Lessons of the Rheims Aviation Contests 154--154
Anonymous A Sanitary Drainage Canal for Buffalo 154--154
Anonymous Why do Watch Mainsprings Break? . . . . 154--154
Anonymous The First Voyage of the ``Zeppelin III'' 154--154
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous A New Speed Indicator for Marine
Propellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Powerful Hoisting and Conveying Machine 156--156
Esther Singleton Hieroglyphs of the Heavens . . . . . . . 157--158
Anonymous The Aviation Meeting at Rheims . . . . . 159--159
S. Mays Ball Measuring a River's Flow . . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous German Museum of Masterpieces of Science
and Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Gustave Michaud Home-Made Chemical Perfume . . . . . . . 163--164
I. G. Bayley Paper Hanger's Adjustable Templet . . . 164--164
George F. Worts How to Make a Simple Dry Battery . . . . 164--164
Charles A. Sidman Home-Grown Calabash Gourds . . . . . . . 164--164
R. W. Pearse The Handy Man's Spark Plug . . . . . . . 164--164
Robert H. Brockman How to Make a Simple Electric Engine . . 164--164
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 181--185
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 181--186
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Anonymous Dr. Cook and the North Pole . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous The Transatlantic Record . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Economic Loss of Overcrowding . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous The Elimination of Grade Crossings . . . 174--174
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
M. Hamilton Talbot Counting our People by Machine . . . . . 176--176
Day Allen Willey How Sudd Chokes the Nile River . . . . . 177--178
Anonymous The Recent Curious Eclipse of the Sun 178--178
J. F. Springer The Seven Bridges of Königsberg and other
Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Anonymous Termination of the Rheims Aviation
Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Anonymous A Novel Cantilever Grain Elevator . . . 182--183
Anonymous Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole 183--183
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 200--203
Anonymous Honor to Whom Honor is Due . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Report of the Chief of Ordnance . . . . 190--190
Anonymous The Composition of the Upper Atmosphere 190--190
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous An Automatic Electric Fog-Signaling
Apparatus for Railroads . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Rat Destruction by Electric Current . . 192--192
Alfred Gradenwitz Portable Outlooks for Artillery Trains 193--194
Anonymous A Heat Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Early Suggestions of Invading England by
Balloon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Sheet Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Latin-American Trade . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Trees as Witnesses in Early Surveying 195--195
Anonymous Commander Peary's Discovery of the North
Pole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Anonymous How Cook made his Latitude Observations 197--198
Anonymous Capt Cody's British Army Aeroplane . . . 198--198
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Thaleon Blake The Cold Process of Making Sirup . . . . 199--199
A. V. Searing, Jr. Vise for Polished Pipe . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Temporary Repairs to Broken Springs . . 199--199
Albert F. Bishop Simple Tapered Reamer . . . . . . . . . 199--199
F. P. M'dermott, Jr. A Cheap Lamp Rheostat . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
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Anonymous The Return of Halley's Comet . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous The Selden Patent Case . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
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Anonymous What is Heat Lightning . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous How Finger and Thumb marks were
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Anonymous Electrical Fireballs: What Are They? . . 215--215
Anonymous Does Municipal Ownership Pay . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Supersensitiveness of the Blind . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Development of the Hudson River
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Anonymous American Steamboats Prior to the
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Anonymous John Fitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
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Anonymous William Symington . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous John Stevens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous The American Walking-Beam Engine . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Three Hundred Years of New York . . . . 224--226
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 248--251
Anonymous True Significance of the Hudson--Fulton
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Anonymous One Hundred Years of the Marine Engine 238--238
Anonymous Combating Injurious Insects with the Aid
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Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Harlan T. Stetson How We Get Standard Time . . . . . . . . 240--240
Anonymous Corrugated System of Ship Construction 241--241
Anonymous The Gabet Wirelessly-Controlled
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Anonymous The ``Zeppelin III.'' Airship and Its
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John Elfreth Watkins The Modern Icarus . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Sanitary Refuse Receptacle . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Convenient Book Holder . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Improved Cutter Head . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Rail Fastener . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
Anonymous Philadelphia, the Delaware River, and
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Anonymous Palestine and Syria the Original Cereal
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Anonymous Home-Grown Sugar-Beet Seed . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous The Platinum Market . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Stereoscopic Moving Pictures in Natural
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Anonymous Erection of the Fades Viaduct . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous The Pope and the Comet . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous The Number of Our Ancestors . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous The Number of Our Ancestors and of Our
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Anonymous Why Do Main Springs Break? . . . . . . . 259--259
W. Frank M'clure Open-Air Orchard Heating in Colorado . . 260--261
Anonymous The Visiting Warships --- a Comparison 261--262
Anonymous A Novel Air Pump and Vacuum Gage . . . . 262--262
C. L. Swezey Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
B. A. Johns Thermostatic Regulator for Smoke Pipes 263--263
J. A. Bergstrom Circulating Pipe for Hot-Water Faucets 263--263
H. G. L. How to Connect Stove Pipes . . . . . . . 263--263
John B. Allen Hot-Water Connection for Kitchen Boilers 263--264
J. A. Brophy A Screen for the Register . . . . . . . 264--264
A. F. Bishop The Boiler Maker's Tool Bag . . . . . . 264--264
A. J. Jarman Coating Roofs White to Repel Heat Rays 264--264
Alfred P. Morgan A Muffler for Gas Engines . . . . . . . 264--264
L. G. Handy To Prevent Coal Gas . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Anonymous Educational Value of the Hudson--Fulton
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Anonymous Evolution Not Revolution . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous The Most Powerful Naval Gun . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous The Record Flights of Orville and Wilbur
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Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Cycling Trick in a Berlin Variety
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Anonymous The First Photograph of Halley's Comet 276--276
P. Harvey Middleton Saving the American Lobster . . . . . . 277--278
Anonymous The Number of our Ancestors . . . . . . 278--278
James Arthur Strange Scientific Anomalies at the
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Anonymous Playing a 'Cello by Compressed Air . . . 280--280
Anonymous Moving a Mountain in Utah . . . . . . . 281--282
Anonymous A New Automatic Electric Signaling
System for Railroads . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
J. Mayne Baltimore The Vessel that Accomplished the
Northwest Passage . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Charles F. Holder A Tame Nautilus . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 301--301
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous A Talk with Wilbur Wright . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous The New British ``Dreadnoughts'' and
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Anonymous Some Photochemical Reactions . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous The Spectrum of Mars . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous The First German Monoplane to Make
Successful Flights . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous The Aviation Meet at Berlin and Latham's
Flight across the City . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Jacques Boyer A Simplified Method of Teaching
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Frederic R. Honey Saturn and His Rings . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous The Height of Mount Rainier . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American at
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Anonymous Why Not a Monument to Fitch? . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous ``Inflexible'' and ``Connecticut''
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Anonymous Result of a Lightning Stroke . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The Number of our Ancestors . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The Highest Human Ascent . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Aerial Warfare in 1798 . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The Latest Submarines of the United
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Anonymous An all Seeing Eye for the Submarine . . 297--297
Anonymous Col. John Jacob Astor's Novel Steamship
Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
R. W. Wood Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Frederick E. Ward Alternating Current Experiments . . . . 299--300
James Paterson Device for Removing Wood Screws . . . . 300--300
Howard W. Nichols Mending a Broken Metallic Filament . . . 300--300
F. A. Kaiser A Simple Fruit Cellar . . . . . . . . . 300--300
C. R. M'gahey How to Make a Paper Telescope Barrel . . 300--300
Edward M. Hanson Restoring a Dry Cell . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
August Mencken The Handy Man's Sub-Caliber Gun . . . . 300--300
C. W. Fairbank A Device for Emptying a Tub . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 320--320
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 321--323
Anonymous Slag a Cause of Broken Rails . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Our Vanishing Timber Supply . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Death of Prof. Lombroso . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Count De Lambert's Flight over the
Eiffel Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Alfred Gradenwitz The Brussels Popular Electrical
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Anonymous A Curious Chemical Growth . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Playing with Fire . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Measuring Holes by Electricity . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Differential Speed Indicator . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Accident Preventer . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous A Surveyor's Telephoto . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous High-Speed Destroyers for the United
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Anonymous Leduc's Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Why Do Watch Springs Break? . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous A Magic Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous The Breaking of Main Springs in Storms 315--315
Anonymous An Optical Phenomenon . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Frederic Blount Warren How Germany Makes Forestry Pay . . . . . 316--317
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Sleigh-Runner Attachment for Baby
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Anonymous Combined Friction and Jaw Clutch . . . . 319--319
Anonymous A Perfected Form of Lock Nut . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 337--337
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 338--340
Anonymous The America's Cup . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Dover's Great Artificial Harbor . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Improvements in New York's High-Pressure
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Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Frank C. Perkins A Remarkable Mexican Concrete Conduit at
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Anonymous Terrific Boiler Explosion in Milwaukee 329--329
J. F. Springer Some Principles of Ball-Bearing Design 329--330
Anonymous A Curious Star Map . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous The Number of Our Ancestors . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous The 10,000-Ton Suction Dredger
``Leviathan'' for Use on the Mersey . . 332--332
Anonymous Some Curiosities of Invention . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous The Attitude of Diplodocus . . . . . . . 334--334
B. S. Bowdish Birds of Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous The Ophthalmo-Diaphanoscope . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Testing Bitumens for Pavements . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous The Electric Locomotive of the Future 22--22
Anonymous Drydocks for our Biggest Battleships . . 22--22
Anonymous The Railways of the World . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Directive Sense of Bees . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
J. E. Kirkwood The Guayule Rubber Industry . . . . . . 24--24
Herbert T. Wade The Standard Electrical Cell --- Its use
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Anonymous A 5,000-Ton Testing Machine . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained 27--27
J. Hammond Smith Carving Statues by Means of Photography 28--28
Anonymous The First Flight Exhibition and
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George Sherwood Hodgins A Huge Planetarium . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Improved Head for Stringed Musical
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Padlock with Incased Bolt . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Metal Rail Base and Cross Tie for
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
Anonymous Local Magnetic Disturbances and the
Genesis of Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous The Fifth Vanderbilt Cup Race and the
Good Roads Tour from New York to Atlanta 346--346
Anonymous Non-Toxic Coffee and Tea . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Ferdinand Worthington Archaeological Relics from the Sea . . . 348--349
C. H. Claudy Our Aeronautical Organization . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous Magnetism and the Breaking of Watch
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Anonymous The Renaissance Clergy and Science . . . 351--351
Anonymous Making Alcohol from Wood Waste . . . . . 352--352
Anonymous Trials of the New ``Dreadnought'' ---
``North Dakota'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--354
Anonymous The Record Flights of Count De Lambert
and Henry Farman . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
F. Willard Browne Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
A. J. Jarman Experimental Color Making with Simple
Chemical Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
C. S. Bourne An Interesting Paradox . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Charles Brecht Filter for Cisterns . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Herbert S. Davis A Close-Corner Screw Driver . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 377--383
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Anonymous Purity of Catskill Water Supply . . . . 366--366
Anonymous The New Fourteen-Inch Army and Navy Guns 366--366
Anonymous The New British and German
``Dreadnoughts'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Acceleration of Long-Distance Express
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Anonymous The Limit of Rapid Transit . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous The Other Half of the Cullinan . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
M. H. Hunting Something New in Concrete Block Making 368--368
Anonymous A ``Dreadnought'' of 1863 . . . . . . . 368--369
Anonymous Power Indicator for Internal-Combustion
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Frederic R. Honey The Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 1909 . . 370--371
Anonymous Why Watch Springs Break . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Railway Motor Cars . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Another Evil of Deforestation . . . . . 371--371
Frank N. Bauskett How Lemon Oil Is Made . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Artillery for Airship Attack . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous Wireless Communication with Balloons . . 374--374
Anonymous The Wellcome Tropical Research
Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Combined Timer and Distributer for
Internal-Combustion Engines . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous An Improved Steam Trap . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous A New Grain Bin Construction . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 398--403
Anonymous Present Conditions on the Panama Canal 386--386
Anonymous The Trials of the Battleship ``North
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Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Salvage of the United States Cruiser
``Yankee'' by Compressed Air . . . . . . 388--388
Frank C. Perkins A Gasoline Engine for Corn Husking . . . 388--389
Anonymous The Gyroscopic Mono-Railroad . . . . . . 389--390
Anonymous Controlling Steamship Engines from the
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Anonymous Sounding the Ocean of Air Above Us . . . 392--393
Anonymous A Self-Acting Mail Elevator . . . . . . 394--394
A. R. Van Der Veer Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
A. J. Jarman Plating Spoons and Forks at Home . . . . 395--395
W. J. C. Scissors with a Saw-Tooth . . . . . . . 395--395
Otto Kerner How to Wind an Open Spring . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous The Self-Smoking Pipe . . . . . . . . . 396--396
R. H. Brockmann Home-Made Knob and Tube Boring Machine 396--396
F. R. Gorton Inexpensive Apparatus for Illustrating
the ``Hydrostatic Paradox'' . . . . . . 396--396
J. O. Brouillet Device for Drawing Ovoids . . . . . . . 396--396
W. and
K. Parkhurst Device for Washing Prints . . . . . . . 396--396
Gustave Michaud Blue Roses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 417--417
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 418--423
Anonymous A Decision Under the German--American
Patent Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Cherry Mine Disaster . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous High and Cross-Country Flying Abroad . . 406--406
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Gustave Michaud Some Photographic Diversions . . . . . . 409--410
Anonymous How Does Sap Run in Pine Trees? . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Safeguarding Mines . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous An Early Marine Engine . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous A Novel Aerial Railway . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Thaleon Blake How to Observe and Record the Weather 412--412
John Elfreth Watkins Testing the Man-Engine . . . . . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Curiosities in Science and Invention . . 415--415
Anonymous The Ice Drag of the Wellman Expedition 415--415
Anonymous An Early Type of Submarine Boat . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Coin-Operated Device for Registering
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous The Great Stone Globe at Swanage . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Spray Helmet for Firemen . . . . . . . . 415--415
Katherine Louise Smith Indoor Bed Tents . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
Frederic B. Hyde An Emergency Oxygen Cup for Miners . . . 416--416
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 453--453
Anonymous Agriculture the Basis of Prosperity . . 426--426
Anonymous Sea Strength of Principal Naval Powers 426--426
Anonymous The Second Refrigeration Congress . . . 426--426
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous The Reclamation of the Arid Lands of the
West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429
Anonymous The Wonderful Iron Mines of Lake
Superior --- How the Ore is Mined and
Carried in Bulk . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Anonymous The Proposed Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep
Waterway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--436
Anonymous Another Magic Square . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous American Harvesting Machinery --- The
Birth and Growth of a Vast Industry . . 437--440
Anonymous Gary: The Largest and Most Modern Steel
Works in Existence . . . . . . . . . . . 441--443
Anonymous The Handling and Storage of our Huge
Grain Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
Anonymous Chicago and the Railroad System of the
Middle West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Anonymous Iron That Will Not Rust . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Chicago's Sixty Miles of Freight Subway 448--448
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous A Reversion to Type . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Navy Department Reorganization . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous The Value of Exhaust Steam . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous A Steam-Turbine Electric Locomotive . . 462--462
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous The New Pennsylvania Railroad Electric
Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Percy Collins The Life of a Splash . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Anonymous A Simple and Rapid Method of Measuring
the Height of an Aeroplane above the
Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous The Enormous Crops of 1909 . . . . . . . 466--466
Jacques Boyer The Ninth Annual Lepine Exhibition of
Toys in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
S. Leonard Bastin Carnivorous Plants of the Future . . . . 469--469
Anonymous The Most Ancient of Human Skeletons . . 470--470
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous How to Water-Proof Cloth . . . . . . . . 471--471
Milton Stone Sled Runner Attachment for Go-Carts . . 471--471
John A. Bergstrom A Snow-Bound Santa Claus . . . . . . . . 471--471
Howard M. Nichols How to Make Lead Pipe into Iron Pipe
without a Wiped Joint . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Chauncey W. Nieman A Method for Connecting Batteries in
Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Frederick K. Lord Power-Driven Scooter . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 492--493
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Anonymous A Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous Electrification of a Chicago Railway
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Anonymous Report of the Naval Bureau of Ordnance 482--482
Anonymous The Army Ordnance Report . . . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous The Origin of European Peoples . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous A New Theory of the Screw Propeller . . 484--484
Frank C. Perkins A Machine for Simultaneously Firing Many
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Anonymous A Pollen-Gathering Patent Dedicated to
the Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--485
S. A. Mitchell Photographing a Star Spectrum . . . . . 485--486
Frederic R. Honey The Phases of Venus . . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Roland Ashford Phillips An Aerial Passenger Railway . . . . . . 488--488
C. H. Claudy How Your Eyeglasses are Made . . . . . . 489--490
Anonymous Flight with Flapping Wings . . . . . . . 490--490
Walter L. Beasley The Baby Musk Ox and the Alaskan Bear of
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 49--49
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Anonymous Longer Daylight . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Suburban Traffic in London and New York 38--38
Anonymous Inconclusive Tests of the Scout Cruisers 38--38
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Frank C. Perkins An English Electrically Operated
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Walter Bailey A New Electric Traveling Scale Crane . . 40--41
Harold J. Shepstone A Billiard Table for Ships . . . . . . . 41--41
F. C. Ferry Second Honorable Mention Essay on the
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William Carlin A New Scotch Elevating Ferry . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous The Proposed Montreal Drydock . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous The Number of our Ancestors . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Signaling to Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
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Anonymous Foods and Digestion . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Edward Thorpe Iceless Refrigeration . . . . . . . . . 48--48
I. G. Bayley A Weatherboard Gage . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Albert Prather Quick Means for Finding the Center of
Shafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
James G. Newland A Home-Made Saw Vise . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 65--65
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
Anonymous City Terminals without Traffic
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Anonymous Magnitude of Work on New State Barge
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Anonymous Wire-Wound Versus Steel Guns . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Burglar-Proof Glass . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Gustave Michaud Some Experiments with an Orange . . . . 56--56
Percival A. Hislam Some New Warships and Their Equipment 56--56
Anonymous Opening of the Down-Town Hudson Tunnels 57--57
Charles Henry Smith The Third Honorable Mention Essay in the
Fourth Dimension Competition . . . . . . 58--59
Anonymous The Scientific Work of the Late Prof.
Simon Newcomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Jacques Boyer The Disinfection of School Books . . . . 60--61
Frank C. Perkins An American Farmobile . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous The Flight of the Curtiss Aeroplane for
the \booktitleScientific American Trophy 62--62
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Portable Winch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Automatic Drain for Compressors . . . . 63--63
Roland Ashford Phillips Panning without Water . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Lock for Electric Meters . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Expanding Brush for Cleansing Bottles 64--64
Anonymous Apparatus for Purifying Water by the
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Anonymous Paper Hanger's Trimmer . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 81--83
Anonymous Good News from Panama . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Naval Annuals of 1909 . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous As Others See Us . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Baseball at Night . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous The First Attempt at a Cross-Channel
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Anonymous How the Peace Could be Kept
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Anonymous Speed of the ``Mauretania'' . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Construction of an Ellipse . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous A New Process for Damascening, Inlaying,
and Blending Metals . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous The First of the 1909 Flights for the
\booktitleScientific American Trophy . . 77--77
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
I. G. Bayley A Ladder Extension Leg . . . . . . . . . 80--80
W. J. C. Automatic Lubricating Cup . . . . . . . 80--80
F. P. M'dermott, Jr. Experiments with Alternating Current,
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G. H. Sinclair Device for Removing Broken Wood Screws 80--80
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 98--103
Anonymous Blériot's Channel Flight . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Grandeur of the Hudson--Fulton Naval
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Anonymous Leffert Lefferts Buck . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous An Antique Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Orville Wright's Record Flights at Fort
Myer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous The First Successful Cross-Channel
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Frederic Blount Warren Electric Lamps in the Making . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous A Novel Type of Rotary Conveyer . . . . 90--90
Anonymous How Does a Bird Soar? . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Electrochemical Amalgamation . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous The Terrestrial Origin of the Moon --- a
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Anonymous The Chronosphere --- an Empire Clock . . 92--92
Anonymous The Figurehead and Its Story . . . . . . 92--94
S. F. Aaron The Cement Work of the Mud Wasps . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
A. R. Van Der Veer Folding Bracket for the Hand Glass . . . 95--95
Howard M. Nichols Electric Coffee Pot . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
John K. Brachvogel An Improvised Shoe Stretcher . . . . . . 95--95
William P. Goebel Tabouret Made From an Onion Crate . . . 95--96
William C. M'kenzie A Tin Can Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
T. G. Hoster Convenient Hanger for the Clothes Closet 96--96
Anonymous Simple Method of Pulling a Cork . . . . 96--96
L. G. Handy Alarm for Batteries of Electric Gas
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Anonymous Gas-Tube Support . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Substitute for Rod Threader . . . . . . 96--96
B. A. Johns Drop Light Made From an Oil Lamp . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Anonymous Wanted --- a Reliable Aeroplane Motor 106--106
Anonymous A Sensible ``Civil Calendar'' . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Medievalism in Modern Chemistry . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Keeping Milk by Chilling It . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Gustave Michaud Some Acoustic Experiments . . . . . . . 108--108
Charles E. Cooke Asking the Tree to Speak . . . . . . . . 108--108
Alfred Gradenwitz Marvelous Paintings of Nature . . . . . 109--109
Alexander W. Roberts Halley's Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous The Wiesen Viaduct . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Blériot's Channel Flight and other
Records in France . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Completion of the Government Contract by
Orville Wright at Fort Myer . . . . . . 111--112
Day Allen Willey An American Forestry School . . . . . . 113--114
Anonymous An Electromagnetic Drill . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Thawing Dynamite . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Frederick E. Ward An Electrolytic Rectifier for Charging
Ignition Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
C. A. Pitkin Saw-Filing Clamp . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
J. Edwin Kerr To Support Shaft when Babbittin . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Racing Yachts in a Gale . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Peary and the North Pole . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Twenty Miles under the Sea . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
An Eyewitness Testing a Torpedo-Boat Defense . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous The First Cross-Country Flight of the
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Anonymous A Record Cross-Country Motor-Boat Trip 125--126
Anonymous Thunderstorms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous The Effect of Polar Currents on Gulf
Stream Plankton . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous The Excavations at Delos . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous A New Application of the Diving Bell . . 127--127
Frederic R. Honey Conjunctions of the Planets . . . . . . 130--130
Alfred Gradenwitz A Novel Solution of the Problem of
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 148--149
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
Anonymous Anchoring Down the Floor of the Gatun
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Anonymous Far-Sighted Policy of Improvement . . . 138--138
Anonymous The Wright Aeroplane Infringement Suit 138--138
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Repairing the Crushed-in Bow of the
``Florida'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous The Edison Concrete House . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous First American to Cross the Channel
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Anonymous The Number of our Ancestors . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous The Long Island Portal of the
Pennsylvania Sub-River Tunnels . . . . . 143--145
Anonymous An Automobile Wireless Telegraph Station 145--145
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Sad-Iron Heater and Receptacle . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Slat Adjuster for Window Blinds . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Telescopic Steering Gear . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Wave and Gravity Motor . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous A Portable Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Resonator for Telephones . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Retrospect of the Year 1899 . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous Landslide at Amalfi . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous The Chester Metallic Railway Tie . . . . 6--6
Waldon Fawcett Mechanical Ore Unloader . . . . . . . . 7--7
Frederick H. M'gahie The Explosive Side of Acetylene . . . . 8--9
Anonymous New York Zoological Park . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous Motor-Wheel for Vehicles . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Consular Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous The Ives' Improved Kromskop . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Hand and Machine Production Compared . . 146--146
Anonymous Protection of Inventions Exhibited at
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Annual Report of the Commissioner of
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Anonymous California Big Trees Threatened with
Destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Dissociation of Air at Ordinary Pressure 147--147
Anonymous Horseflesh in America . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous The Beet Sugar Industry . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous The First Automobile Patrol Wagon . . . 148--148
Anonymous An Electric Automobile Ambulance . . . . 148--148
Anonymous A Combined Heating Stove and Furnace . . 149--149
Anonymous An Anchor to Prevent the Creeping of
Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
J. Guenaire The Alexandre III Bridge, Paris . . . . 149--150
Anonymous Radio-Active Matter in Magnetic Field 150--151
Anonymous Torpedo Practice at Newport, R.I. . . . 152--152
Anonymous Our Latest Protected Cruiser, the
``Albany'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Fighting Snow on the Third-Rail . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Transportation of Buildings by Water . . 154--154
Gustave Michaud A Chemical Growth . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous A Feat in Half-Tone Work . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Liquid Air Promotion Again . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous The Construction of Warships at
Government Navy Yards . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous The Work of the Divison of Chemistry of
the Department of Agriculture . . . . . 162--163
Hudson Maxim Facts Versus Claims for Liquid Air . . . 163--163
Anonymous A Billion Dollar Country . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The Asiatic Plague at Honolulu . . . . . 164--164
Anonymous A Simple Shutter-Fastener . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous A Worm and Chain Driving-Gear for
Elevators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous An Amateur's Camera for Photographing in
Natural Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Steam Electric Lightship for Cape
Hatteras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
Anonymous The Latest of the Large Mississippi
Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous M. J. De Morgan's Excavations in the
Akropolis and Palaces of Susa . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous The Chinese Rods and Cords . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous A Milligrade Thermometer . . . . . . . . 170--170
Charles F. Holder The Passing Show . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous The Supremacy of the Modern Magazine
Rifle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous New York's Water Supply --- Present and
Future Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous American Experiment Stations at the
Paris Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
Anonymous An Admiralty Board for the Navy . . . . 179--179
Anonymous The New Naval Programme . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Toning Lantern Slides and Bromide Prints
by Ferrocyanide of Copper . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Death of a Noted Inventor . . . . . . . 179--179
H. J. Shepstone The Princess Christian Hospital Train
for South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous An Electric Alarm Try-Cock for Steam
Boilers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Anonymous The Creeping of Rails on the Eads
Bridge, St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Anonymous A Novel form of Steam Engines . . . . . 181--182
Anonymous Filtration Plant for the Albany Water
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous The New French Battleship ``Suffren''
and Her Predecessor . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous The New Brazilian Armorclad ``Marshal
Deodoro'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Anonymous The Old and New Pumping Engines of Dry
Dock No. 1, Brooklyn Navy Yard . . . . . 185--186
Anonymous Removing Obstructions in San Francisco
Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
A. C. Scott A New Apparatus for Instantaneous
Photo-Micrography . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous The Isthmian Canal Survey . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous The Designs of Last Year's Battleships
and Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Breaking Ground for the Rapid Transit
Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Germany's Naval Programme --- a Lesson
for the United States . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous The Steering of Modern, Screw-Propelled
Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Anonymous Three Types of Automobiles . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Mutual Aid Societies for French School
Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous A Cheap Telephone System for Farmers . . 196--196
Anonymous A New Method of Cutting Threads . . . . 196--196
Anonymous An Improvement in Smoke Consuming
Furnaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous A Cheap and Efficient Typewriter . . . . 197--197
Anonymous The North German Lloyd Liner ``Kaiserin
Maria Theresia'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Anonymous A Rein Support and Guard for Horse
Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous American Freight Locomotives and the
Engines of the ``Oceanic'' --- a
Comparison of Horsepower . . . . . . . . 199--199
Waldon Fawcett The Marine Department of the
Trans-Siberian Railroad . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Prof. Pictet's Experiments with Liquid
Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
C. F. Holder Some American Mummies . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Obstacles to the Proposed Erie Canal
Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Automobilism in the German Postal
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous The Work of the Division of Entomology 210--210
Anonymous Changes in the Assistant
Commissionership . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Some Chinese Vegetables . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous The Patent Office Exhibit at the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous M. Trillot on Color Photography . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Our Exports of Iron and Steel . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Death of Prof. Pepper . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous A Perfected Burner for Incandescent
Mantles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous A Rope Armored Engine . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous A Non-Refillable Bottle . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous A Problem in Ship Propulsion . . . . . . 213--213
L. P. Gratacap The Asbestos Mines at Thetford, Canada 213--214
Anonymous The Expiration of the Edison American
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Anonymous Ferry Steamer with an Elevating Deck . . 216--216
Anonymous The Black-Wall Tunnel, London . . . . . 217--218
Anonymous The Cullen Ball-Bearing Rifled Gun . . . 218--219
Anonymous A French Trolley Automobile . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous New York's Water Supply and the Ramapo
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Anonymous Applied Science in Modern War . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous The Youngest Subscriber . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Death of St. George Mivart . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous A Lister Attachment for Planters . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Apparatus for Making Perspective
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Anonymous A Simple Ingenious Toy . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous The Colt Automatic Gun . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous The Gordon Bennett Cup Race . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous The Superposed Turrets of the
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Waldon Fawcett The Water Transportation of Grain . . . 232--233
Cosmos Mindeleff Houses and House Dedication of the
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Anonymous Reproduction of Working Drawings . . . . 235--235
Hugh M. Smith The Three Toothed Lamprey . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous United States in the World's Trade . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Double Turret Rejected by the Naval
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Anonymous Fox Breeding on the Alaskan Islands . . 242--242
Anonymous A New Hydrocarbon Cuprene . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Peanut Industry . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Cotton's Great Future . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Entrance to The Paris Exposition . . 243--243
Anonymous Death of Frank H. Cushing . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous A Controlling Apparatus for Mine
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Anonymous The Coming Eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Anonymous A Combined Automobile and Tramway
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Anonymous The Turquoise Mines of Persia . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous 700-Foot Floating Dock at South Brooklyn 248--248
Anonymous The Engines of the Torpedo Boat
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Anonymous The Dismal Swamp of Virginia . . . . . . 249--250
Anonymous The New Assistant Commissioner of
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Finality in Invention . . . . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Progress and Prospects of the
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Anonymous Opening of the Paris Exposition . . . . 258--259
Marcus Benjamin National Academy of Sciences . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous An American Automobile Race . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Cellulith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Aerial Sweep for the Pan-American
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Anonymous A Simple Compass with a Caliper-Scale 260--260
Anonymous The Use of Acetylene in Raising Sunken
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Anonymous A New Storage Battery . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Anonymous A Window Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous The Hydraulic System of Air Compression 263--263
Anonymous The Vagaries of a Railroad Wreck . . . . 264--264
Anonymous The New Japan Battleship ``Shikishima'' 264--265
Anonymous The Failure of the Masonry Dam at
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C. F. Holder Value of Sea Birds . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Revival of the American Merchant Marine 274--274
Anonymous The Single-Rail Suspended Railway . . . 274--274
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Anonymous Floating Dry Docks for New York City . . 275--275
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Death of the Duke of Argyll . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous A New form of Fiber-Cleaning Machine . . 276--276
Enos Brown Large Traction Engines for Siberia . . . 276--276
Anonymous An Improved Engine Valve-Gear . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous The Ives System of Color Photography . . 277--278
Anonymous The Upbuilding of the American Merchant
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Anonymous The Langen Single-Rail Suspended Railway 280--280
Anonymous Effective Ditch-Digging Machine . . . . 281--282
Anonymous A Convenient Panoramic Camera . . . . . 282--283
Anonymous Science Settles a Great Problem . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous The Passage of the Nicaragua Canal Bill
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Anonymous American Locomotives in Germany . . . . 290--290
Anonymous The Cantilever System of Bridge
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Anonymous Science for the Love of It . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous The Cape Nome Gold Fields . . . . . . . 290--290
F. A. A. Talbot Steering Torpedoes by Means of Wireless
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Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Automobile News . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Novel Window-Guard and Fly-Screen . . . 292--292
Anonymous Lord Kelvin's Electric Trolley Rail
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Anonymous A New Form of Weeding-Machine . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous The Pollak and Virag Telegraph . . . . . 293--293
W. F. Coffee The ``Orograph'' an Automatic Profile
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Anonymous The Towers and Approaches of the New
East River Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . 294--295
Anonymous The Children's Museum of Brooklyn
Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Anonymous Tall Office Building Model for the
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Anonymous The Mono-Rail Track Velocipede . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Armored Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous The New Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous The Electric Fish of the Nile . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Unearthing Fossil Remains . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Congress of Photography in 1900 . . . . 18--18
Anonymous The Geological Society of America . . . 19--19
Chester Haile Powerful Electric Pump at Austin, Texas 20--20
Anonymous Oil Engine with Direct-Connected
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Anonymous An Ingenious Tool-Grinding Machine . . . 21--21
Anonymous A Simple Trousers Clasp . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous An Automatic Lubricator for Locomotives
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Anonymous Homemade Windmills in Nebraska . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous The Bonner Rail Wagon . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous A 70,000 Horse Power Central Station . . 26--26
Chas. Fred. Holder The San Jacinto Earthquake . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Capped Projectiles and Panic Legislation 306--306
Anonymous The Shrinkage of Lake Nicaragua . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Electricity in the Field of
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Anonymous A National Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Marcus Benjamin The Methods Employed by the Assay
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Anonymous A Speedy Business Transaction with China 307--307
Anonymous Great Submarine Blast in San Francisco
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C. Field The New Russian Battleship
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Anonymous Death Valley, California . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous A New Curtain-Hanger . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous A Sterilizer for Razors and Surgical
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Anonymous Manufacture of Guns and Armor at the
Bethlehem Steel Works . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Anonymous Proposed National Memorial Bridge across
the Potomac at Washington . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Alexandre III Memorial Bridge, Paris . . 313--314
Anonymous A Pair of Curious Relics at Aberfoyle,
Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
F. A. A. Talbot Aerial Photography . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Gold Deposits and Mining Methods at Cape
Nome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Progress of the New York Rapid Transit
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Anonymous Some Needs of Modern Chemistry . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Two Impossible Bills . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous The Postal Service in the Time of Queen
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J. A. Stewart Textile Manufacturing in the New South 322--323
Anonymous The Emigration to Cape Nome . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous A Small Automatic Electric Air-Pump . . 324--324
Anonymous Shouldering Car for Leveling and
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Anonymous Count von Zeppelin's Airship . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Borax --- Old and New Methods of
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Waldon Fawcett The Sault Power Canal . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous Curiously Cut Yew Trees . . . . . . . . 329--329
Anonymous A Waterproof Detonator for Mines . . . . 330--330
Anonymous A Mechanical Cotton-Picker . . . . . . . 330--330
Chas. Fred'k. Holder Some Pacific Sharks and Accompanying
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Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Preliminary Hearing of the President's
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Anonymous Mutually Profitable . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Congress and the Pneumatic Dispatch
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Anonymous Development of Color-Photography . . . . 338--338
Anonymous The American Trotter Abroad . . . . . . 338--339
Anonymous The Japanese Grasses . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Death of Jonas Gilman Clark . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Single-Rail Storage Battery Motor . . . 340--340
Anonymous Portable Shields for Infantry . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Wood Mosaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
William B. Gamble The Assaying of Gold and Silver Ores . . 341--342
J. A. Stewart Cotton Trade Schools in the South . . . 342--343
Anonymous A New Form of Car Fender . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous The Paris Exposition . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Anonymous Electric Cab System of Paris . . . . . . 345--346
Herbert T. Wade Dr. Pupin's Improvements in
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Frank Aaron The Store-Room Beetle or Book Worm . . . 347--347
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Atmospheric Resistance to Railroad
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Anonymous The Total Eclipse of the Sun . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous Scientific Translation . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous The Central London Tunnel Road . . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Smelting Process for Zinc Ores . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous A New Tele-Photo Lens . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous The Latest Developer . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous An Improvement in Driers . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Experimental Train for Testing
Atmospheric Resistance . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous New Plow Attachment . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous The Manufacture of Salt . . . . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous Manufacture of Guns and Armor at the
Bethlehem Steel Works . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Henry Randall Webb Observations on the Eclipse of May 28,
1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
W. S. Harwood The Mummification of Cats in Ancient
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous United States Battleship ``Georgia'' and
Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous An Hydraulic Motor of Novel Construction 363--363
Anonymous An Attractive Dwelling and Conservatory
for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous The Armor Plate Fiasco . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Two Remarkable Achievements in Chemical
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Our Phenomenal Exports . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous The Railroad Systems of Asia . . . . . . 370--371
Alton D. Adams Electrical Supply by Gas Companies . . . 371--371
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Felling Tall Chimneys . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous The Herreshoff 70-Foot Yacht ``Mineola'' 373--373
D. Allen Willey Electric Head Light Effects . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous Some Unique Attractions of the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous An Adjustable Hoisting Pulley . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous A Photograph of the Solar Eclipse . . . 376--376
Anonymous Rolling-Lift Bridge over Fort Point
Channel, Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Manufacture of Carborundum at Niagara
Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous Efficient Shot-Gun Cleaner . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous Improved Vending-Machine . . . . . . . . 378--378
Robert Wilson A Curious Historic Weapon . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Etruscan Tombs at Orvieto . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous The Battleship of the Future . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Electric Furnace Litigation --- an
Important Patent Decision . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous An Experiment on the Roman Campagna with
the Malarial Mosquito . . . . . . . . . 386--387
George J. Varney Curious Things in Clouds . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Experimental Formation of the Fluorides
of Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Death of Dr. Paul Gibier . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous An Acetylene Gas Explosion . . . . . . . 387--387
W. F. Bradshaw, Jr. The First Submarine Cable . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Armored Traction Engine and Train . . . 388--389
Frank C. Perkins Electrical Coal-Mining Machines . . . . 389--389
Anonymous A Truck Attachment for Sulky-Rakes . . . 390--391
Charles W. Larned The United States Military Academy . . . 392--393
Anonymous Forest Preservation . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
Anonymous The Baldwin Acetylene Bicycle-Lamp . . . 394--394
Anonymous A Simple Wrench of Novel form . . . . . 395--395
Charles Frederick Holder Diving for Zoological Specimens . . . . 395--395
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--414
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous The Latest Liquid Air Fallacy . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Economic Value of Good Roads . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Commercial Expansion as a Science . . . 402--403
Marcus Benjamin Robert Simpson Woodward . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous A Self-Launching Fire-Ladder . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous An Improved Valve for Steam Radiators 404--404
Anonymous Examination of the Drinking Water of
Brooklyn, New York . . . . . . . . . . . 404--405
Anonymous Two Notable High-Speed Foreign Cruisers 405--406
Anonymous Some Perspectives of the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Anonymous A Military Automobile . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Ostia, the Port of Ancient Rome . . . . 409--410
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Legislative Foolishness . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Official Trial of the United States
Cruiser ``Albany'' . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous The Isthmian Canal . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous American Goods in Russia . . . . . . . . 34--34
Godfrey L. Carden British and Boer Guns --- a Lesson from
the South African War . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Palisade Preservation . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous The ``Kaiser Wilhelm'' Again Breaks her
Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Magnetism of the Earth . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Torpedo Boat Makes over 35 Knots an Hour 35--35
Anonymous A Remarkable Collection of Lamps . . . . 35--35
Anonymous A Warning to the Inventor . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous The New Croton Dam --- New York City's
Water Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous A Guard for the Projecting Parts of
Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous The Pierce Cushion-Frame, Chainless
Bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous An Improved Chain Pipe-Wrench . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous How a Weather Map is Made . . . . . . . 38--39
George Wharton James Discovery of Cliff Dwellings in the
Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Anonymous The Armament of our Latest Warships . . 41--42
Howard B. Dailey Electro-magnetic Rotation . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous The Danilewsky Flying Machine . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous A New Era in City Transportation . . . . 50--50
Anonymous The Agricultural Outlook in Puerto Rico 50--50
Anonymous ``Time is Money'' . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous A Wise Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Comparative Cost of Horse and Automobile 50--51
Anonymous Injection of Wood . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous The Pan-American Exposition of 1901 . . 51--51
Anonymous The Risks of War . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Death of Professor Egleston . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Possible Federal Protection of Birds . . 51--51
Anonymous Travel to Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Civil Engineers in Session . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous A Foot-Power Hammer . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Cables of the New East River Bridge . . 52--52
Anonymous Reconstruction of Farragut's Flagship,
the U.S.S. ``Hartford'' . . . . . . . . 53--54
Anonymous The ``Locomobile'' Steam Carriage . . . 54--55
Edgar Mels The Natives of South Africa . . . . . . 56--57
Anonymous The Diamond Mines of Kim-Berley . . . . 57--58
Anonymous Curious Mishap to a Billiard Ball . . . 58--59
Anonymous Military Motor Carriage . . . . . . . . 59--60
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous The Erie Canal Problem . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Excavations at Susa . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Automatic Machinery and the Russian
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Anonymous Stonehenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous The ``Green Ray'' at Sunset . . . . . . 67--67
Enos Brown The New Mining District at Cape Nome . . 67--67
Anonymous John Ruskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Crops in 1899 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Death of Prof. Hughes . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous An Improved Electro-Magnetic Apparatus 68--68
Francis P. Mann Stassano Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Repairing a Propeller Shaft at Sea . . . 68--69
Anonymous The New York Rapid Transit Tunnel . . . 69--70
Charles F. Holder The Ibis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous A Portable Search Light for Fire
Department Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous New Excavations at Carthage . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous The Proposed Pneumatic Balance Locks for
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Anonymous An Early Reaping-Machine . . . . . . . . 75--76
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous The Nicaragua Canal Bill --- an Affront
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Anonymous The Bill for Establishing a High Court
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Anonymous Distance and Speed . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Regulation of the Nicaragua Canal Summit
Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Report of the Smithsonian Institution 83--83
Anonymous The Foreign Commerce of the United
States in 1899 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous An International Association of
Academies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous The World's Production of Precious
Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous An Automatic Device for Stopping Engines 84--84
M. J. Hoferer and
S. J Nodes and Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Serpollet Acetylene Generator . . . . . 84--84
Waldon Fawcett Cantilever Cranes . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Anonymous Half a Century in the Development of the
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Anonymous Automobiles at the Madison Square Garden
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Anonymous A Remarkable Banyan Tree at St. Kitts 91--92
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous The American Pacific Cable . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous An Extraordinary Patent Decision . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Our Books in 1899 . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Women in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous The Chicago Drainage Canal . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Employing the Carabao for Army Purposes
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Anonymous Factory Inspection of New York State . . 99--99
Anonymous The New Government Printing Office . . . 99--99
Anonymous A New Way of Cleaning Ships' Bottoms . . 100--100
Anonymous A Novel Reversing Gear . . . . . . . . . 100--100
George A. Damon Magnetic Clutches . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous The Four-Cylinder Compound Locomotives
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Anonymous Auto-Quadricycle at the Bicycle and Auto
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J. A. Stewart The New Inland Waterway . . . . . . . . 105--106
Charles Minor Blackford, Jr. Curiosities of Ichthyology . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 124--125
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Revival of the Second-Class Mail Matter
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Anonymous The Problem of San Francisco Bay . . . . 114--114
Anonymous The Production of Gold . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous The Utilization of Wastes for Power . . 114--114
Anonymous A Great Russian Pipe Line . . . . . . . 114--114
Angelo Heilprin An Assumed Inconstancy in the Level of
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Anonymous Two Forms of a New Dish-Washing Machine 116--116
Anonymous A World's Record in Bridge Building . . 116--116
Anonymous A Mechanical Stoker for Furnaces . . . . 116--116
Anonymous The Progress of Practical Aeronautics
during 1899 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Casting Pig Iron by Machinery . . . . . 118--119
D. Allen Willey The Round-Lap Bale Method of Shipping
Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Anonymous A Tool for Transplanting Buds . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous An Improved Apparatus for Raising
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Anonymous The Xiphopages, Rosalina and Maria . . . 123--123
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous The Ideal Automobile . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Prospects of the Peary Relief Expedition 130--130
Altan D. Adams Electric Train Lighting . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Air Pipes for Mines, Made of Cloth . . . 130--130
Anonymous ``Hall I' Th' Wood,'' Bolton . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous The Father of Photography . . . . . . . 130--131
C. K. Hawkins Turpentine and Rosin . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Our Rapidly Growing Irrigation Areas . . 131--131
Anonymous New Steamships Building . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous An Efficient Corn and Potato Hiller . . 132--132
Anonymous A Bicycle Motor Equipment . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous A New Nut-Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous An Improved Wire-Stretcher . . . . . . . 133--133
H. A. Crafts The Snowfall and Water Supply of the
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Anonymous Belgian Hare Raising in Southern
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Anonymous Electro-Pneumatic Switching and
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Anonymous Naval Constructor Francis T. Bowles . . 137--138
Anonymous New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn . . . . . . 138--139
Anonymous Building Wharf at Pango Pango . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous An Unfortunate Compromise . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Garbage Disposal of New York City . . . 4--4
Anonymous Relation between Transverse and Crushing
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Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy in South Africa . . 4--4
Anonymous Recent Discoveries in Corinth . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Quartz Thermometers . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous Muir Glacier Destroyed . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous American Association for the Advancement
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Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Waldon Fawcett Dredges on the Mississippi . . . . . . . 6--6
Francis P. Mann The New Air Ship of M. De Santos Dumont 7--7
L. O. Howard The Differences between Malarial and
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Anonymous The Wheat Crop of California . . . . . . 9--9
Wilber Colvin Gold Mining in Georgia . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous The Elevated Railway Drawbridge, Boston 11--12
Anonymous An Air-Directing Device for Electric
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous From Cable to Trolley . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous American and British Engineering
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Anonymous Crystalline Iodide of Mercury . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Experiments of M. Moissan . . . . . . . 146--147
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- Electrical Congress 147--147
Anonymous Marconi's Latest Developments ---
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Anonymous Explosion of a Naphtha Launch . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Accumulators Working under Water . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Steam Tipping-Cart . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous An Improved Scraper . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Waldon Fawcett Irrigation in Idaho . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- United States
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Anonymous The Making of a Half-Tone Engraving . . 153--154
Anonymous Experiments on the Cathode Rays . . . . 154--154
Anonymous The Last of a Famous ``America'' Cup
Challenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous The First-Class Battleship ``Alabama'' 155--156
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous The Armament of our New Battleships and
Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Proposed Abandonment of Port Royal Naval
Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Curious Facts Regarding Mosquitoes . . . 162--163
Anonymous Another Electric Railway for London . . 163--163
Anonymous Malarial Infection on the East Coast of
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Anonymous The ``Deutschland'' Breaks Two Records 163--163
Anonymous The Great Ararat Ascended . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The Duke of Abruzzi's Expedition Reaches
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous An Automatic Acetylene-Generator . . . . 164--164
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- Models in Hungarian
Section, Illustrating Engineering Work
on Lower Danube . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Anonymous Pilot Boat Wrecked by a Whale . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous A Simple Indicator for Locomobile
Water-Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous The Greatest Business Concern in the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- Large Engine . . . 168--168
Charles F. Holder Some Living Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
G. H. P. M'vey Laying a 24-Inch Gas Main across the
Harlem River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Gustave Michaud The Climate of our New Possessions . . . 171--172
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Awards to American Exhibitors at Paris 178--178
Anonymous Poulsen's Telegraphone . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Mechanical Stoking in the United States 178--178
Anonymous English vs. German Atlantic Liners . . . 179--179
Anonymous The Temple Library at Nippur . . . . . . 179--179
Altan D. Adams Distant Water Powers . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Exports of American Coal . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous The Spiral-Globe Lamp . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous An Automatic Oval Wood Dish Machine . . 180--180
Anonymous Poulsen Telegraphone . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Waldon Fawcett The New Era of the American Sailing
Vessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- Austrian Palace . . 184--184
Anonymous Models in Austrian Section of the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Coney Island's Centrifugal Railway . . . 185--186
Anonymous Color Screen for Telescopes . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Rebuilding Niagara's Reservation Bridges 187--188
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Another ``Invention'' --- a 70 Knot
Submarine Boat? . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous The Galveston Disaster . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous New Torpedo Destroyers for Holland . . . 194--194
Anonymous Hand-Labor in Chinese Mines . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Traffic in European Ports . . . . . . . 194--195
Anonymous The British Association for the
Advancement of Science . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous The International Physical Congress . . 195--195
Anonymous The Chicago Automobile Show . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous The ``Fortis'' Electric Exerciser . . . 196--196
Anonymous A Phosphate Transporter at Sfax . . . . 196--197
Anonymous The Damage to the ``Oregon'' . . . . . . 197--197
Anonymous Two Novel Harrows . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
Anonymous The Mareorama at the Paris Exposition 198--198
Anonymous A Japanese Trade Mark . . . . . . . . . 198--200
J. W. Kime Penetrative Quality of Light as Tested
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Anonymous The New Army 16-Inch Gun . . . . . . . . 201--202
Anonymous Aborigines of the Nilgiris in South
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous The Report of the Merchants' Association
on the New York Water Supply . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Galvanic Action of Copper Sheathing . . 210--210
Anonymous Spectrum of Radium . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Pallado-Oxalates . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous The Mastery of the Ocean . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Experiments on Amalgams . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Operation of Welsbach Burners . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous A Cactus in the Botanical Garden at
Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Paris Exposition Awards . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous A Novel Grooving-Saw and Dado-Head . . . 212--212
Anonymous The Langen Mono-Rail Road at the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous A Cotton Per Cent Scale . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous The Use of Flexible Bridles on Kites . . 213--213
Anonymous Some Metallurgical Exhibits at the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
Anonymous Manufacture of Illuminating Gas . . . . 214--215
Anonymous Aleuts of the Alaska Peninsula . . . . . 216--216
Anonymous A Unique Pigeon Postal Service . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous The Langston mooring device . . . . . . 217--218
Arthur T. Kellogg Chicago Automobile Exhibition and Race
Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Anonymous The Tri-State Fair Automobile Races . . 219--219
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Extension of the Rapid Transit Tunnel to
Brooklyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Railroad Speeds in 1899 . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous The World's Naval Progress for 1900 . . 226--226
Alton D. Adams Culm Banks and Fuel Gas . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous The Nobel Prizes for Scientific
Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Frank C. Perkins High Power Engines and Three-Phase
Generators at Paris . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Owen B. Maginnis The Practical Application of the
Hydrostatic Level in Building
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous The French Meteorological Observatory at
Trappes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous A Cable-Grip for Mining-Cars . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous A Convenient Envelop Moistener and
Sealer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Electrical Palace and Fountain at the
Paris Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Launch of the Monitor ``Wyoming'' . . . 232--232
Anonymous An Ingeniously Whittled Fan . . . . . . 233--233
Anonymous Electrical Dredge for the Volga River,
Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Howard B. Dailey Acceleration of the Spark Discharge in
Static Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous ``Broadway Chambers'' --- Exhibits at
the Paris Exposition . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous The Mono-Rail for High-Speed Travel . . 242--242
Anonymous The Water-Tube Boiler on Trial . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The ``Wisconsin'' and the ``Variag'' . . 242--242
Anonymous The Latest Developments of Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Anonymous Calcium Carbide at the Congress of
Applied Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Congress of Applied Chemistry at
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Borax in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous A New Military Folding Bicycle . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous A Collapsible Lathe-Dog . . . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- Building of the
German Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Reconstruction in Concrete of Dry Dock
No. 2, New York Navy Yard . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous A Mechanical Scarifier . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous The 16-Inch Rifle and 20-Inch
Smooth-Bore Compared . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Strengthening the Cantilever Bridge at
Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
S. Frank Aaron The Pantry Moth . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
R. E. Thomas Re-Invention in the World of Surgery . . 251--251
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 268--269
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous To the Armor-Plate Makers . . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous An America Cup Contest in 1901 . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Zeppelin's Airship on Trial . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous The New Liner ``La Lorraine'' . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous The Local Forecaster on the Galveston
Hurricane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous ``The Progress of Invention in the
Nineteenth Century'' . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Report of Rear Admiral Farquhar on the
Newport Naval Maneuvers . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Indigo in Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous The School Gardens of Europe . . . . . . 259--260
Anonymous ``Vieux Paris'' at the Exposition . . . 260--260
Anonymous An Improved Clothes-Washing Machine . . 260--260
Isaac Taylor Headland The Unscientific Chinese . . . . . . . . 261--261
Anonymous Gas-Generating Plant at the Paris
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Anonymous The Reconstruction of the Kinzua Viaduct 262--262
Anonymous Photographic Method of Determining Speed
of Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous The Electric Fire Automobiles of the
Paris Fire Department . . . . . . . . . 264--264
George Stark Railbreaker for Removing Old Tracks . . 265--265
L. O. Howard Two Interesting Uses of Insects by
Natives in Natal . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 284--286
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Irrigation in the Eastern States . . . . 274--274
Anonymous A 40-Knot Steam Yacht . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous The National Memorial Bridge at
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Our Railroads at the Close of the
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Soda Water Fountain in Great Britain . . 274--275
Anonymous Congress of Tramways at Paris . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous The United States National Museum . . . 275--275
Anonymous How Russia Corners Sugar . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous A New Operating Table for Horses . . . . 276--276
Anonymous A Reversible Engine of Novel Form . . . 277--277
Anonymous Electric Locomotive at the Paris
Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous A Simple Sulky Attachment for Harrows 277--277
Anonymous The French Cruisers ``Cecille'' and
``Suchet'' at New York . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Anonymous The Rieder Electro-Engraving Apparatus 280--280
Anonymous The Construction of a 150-Ton Flywheel 280--280
Anonymous A Rack Railway on the Island of Sumatra 281--281
Anonymous The Aerostatic Exhibits at Paris . . . . 282--283
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 300--303
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Atlantic Steamships --- Present and
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--289
Anonymous That Centrifugal Gun Again . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous American Engineering Methods for the
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Anonymous Steamship Competition on the Atlantic 290--290
Anonymous Lake Tanganyika Explorations . . . . . . 290--291
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Anonymous A Square for Marking Shaft-Keyways . . . 292--292
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Anonymous A Portable Thread-Cutting Machine . . . 292--292
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Waldon Fawcett The Production of American Pottery . . . 296--297
Anonymous An Accident to a Train of Steel Cars . . 297--298
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Anonymous The Manufacture of Guns and Armor at the
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Anonymous A Compensation Tie-Plate . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Frederick Holder A California Cycleway . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 316--316
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Anonymous California's Big Trees . . . . . . . . . 306--306
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?. Bichat and
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous The Woods Electric Vehicles . . . . . . 308--308
Frank C. Perkins Electric Mining Locomotives . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous The St. Lawrence Power Company's Plant
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Anonymous A Screw-Propeller of Novel Form . . . . 311--311
Anonymous The New Battleships . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Anonymous Traveling Stairways for the Elevated
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George M. Hopkins A Home-Made Steam Engine . . . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous The Automobile Show at Madison Square
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Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Object Lessons in Centrifugal Force . . 322--322
Anonymous Armor Controversy Finally Settled . . . 322--322
Anonymous Bogus Patent Attorneys in Great Britain 322--322
Anonymous The Annual Meeting of the Society of
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Anonymous Close of the Paris Exposition . . . . . 322--322
George W. Melville The Steam Turbine in Large Merchant
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Anonymous A Holder for Car-Platform Stakes . . . . 325--325
Anonymous A Paint-Striper of Improved Form . . . . 325--325
Anonymous The Underwood Typewriter . . . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Progress of Work on the Rapid Transit
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Anonymous The Selden Patent Suit . . . . . . . . . 327--327
C. Field Remarkable Gravestone at Forres,
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Anonymous The Torpedo Boat ``Viper'' in Dry Dock 328--328
Edward Hale Brush Progress of the Pan-American Exposition 329--330
George M. Hopkins II. The Electric Chime . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 350--350
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Anonymous Pacific Coast Ship-Building . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous The Comparative Efficiency of the Krupp,
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Aug Right Coherers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Artificial Lightning . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Charles Frederick Holder Fighting Fire with Wine . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous A New Bicycle Handle-Bar . . . . . . . . 341--341
Waldon Fawcett Handling Anthracite Coal . . . . . . . . 341--342
Anonymous Liquid Air Automobile . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous The Making of Pictures in Wood . . . . . 344--344
Anonymous The New Armored Cruisers of the
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Anonymous The Pollak Prize for Life-Saving Devices 345--346
Anonymous Electric Clock Run by Earth Plates . . . 346--347
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 363--364
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 367--367
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Anonymous Fireproof Dock Construction . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous Congress and the Isthmian Canal . . . . 354--354
Anonymous The Chief Constructor of the United
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Anonymous International Congress of Railways at
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Anonymous Failure of the Display of Leonids . . . 355--355
Anonymous Sugar Inventions Wanted . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous The Brunt Improved Regulating
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Anonymous A Novel Electro-Magnetic Brake for
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Anonymous American Coal Briquettes . . . . . . . . 356--357
Anonymous The Serpollet Steam Automobile . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous The First-Class Battleship ``Wisconsin'' 358--359
Anonymous Bird's-Eye View of the Pan-American
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Anonymous Separation of the Brazilian
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George M. Hopkins III. Simple Electric Motor . . . . . . . 362--363
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 380--382
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission 370--370
Anonymous The Relative Cost of Steamship
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Anonymous Report of the Commission on Patents and
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Anonymous Alcohol as a Fuel for Motor Carriages 371--371
Anonymous The Direct Combination of Alumina and
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Anonymous Electric Tramways in London . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Curious Knot Formation . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous A Simple Portable Acetylene House-Lamp 372--372
Anonymous New Telephone Meter . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous A Safety Attachment for Water-Gages . . 373--373
Anonymous Scotte Traction Engine --- Type Shown at
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Anonymous Electric Freight Conveyers for Loading
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Anonymous The New 12-Inch Naval Gun . . . . . . . 376--377
Anonymous The Third-Rail Equipment of the
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George M. Hopkins IV. Simple Electric Motor . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 396--399
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous The Metric System in Congress . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Boston and the ``America'' Cup . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Filtration of our Water Supply . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Imports and Exports of the Countries of
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Anonymous Report of the Chief of the Bureau of
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Anonymous The Greatest Iron Ore Mine in the World 386--387
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Anonymous The Iron and Steel Institute at Paris 387--387
Anonymous A New Ratchet-Wrench . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Power Scrapers on the St. Lawrence Power
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Anonymous The Plecher Electro-Pneumatic Telephone 388--388
Anonymous A Recharging Motor for Electric Vehicles 389--389
Anonymous The Manufacture of Edison Phonograph
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Anonymous A Novel Wind or Water Motor . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous The Roze Dirigible Airship . . . . . . . 392--392
W. E. Robinson Disappearing Demon . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Anonymous The Protected Cruisers of the ``St.
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Charles F. Holder Armored Burrowers . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
George M. Hopkins V. An Inexpensive Water Motor . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 413--414
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 414--419
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Edward W. Byrn A Century of Progress in the United
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Anonymous Ritchie's Telautograph . . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Some Automobiles Exhibited at the Paris
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Anonymous A Rapid Method of Vulcanizing Rubber . . 406--406
Jos. Strauss Unites States Naval Proving Ground,
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Anonymous The Halford Gradient Railway . . . . . . 408--408
D. A. Willey Logging in the Northwest . . . . . . . . 409--410
George M. Hopkins VI. A Metallic Thermometer . . . . . . . 411--411
Charles Frederick Holder Some Curious Sculpins . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Anonymous Some Recently Patented Novelties . . . . 412--412
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous American Engineering Competition . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Our Battleships in the Light of the
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Anonymous The ``Deutschland'' . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Pressed Steel Cars . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous French Congo Region . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Anti-Alcohol Serum in France . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Canet Gun with Gas-Recoil-Check . . . . 36--36
Anonymous A Fireproof Shutter . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous A New Steam Turbine . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous China and the Chinese . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Anonymous Riverside Drive Viaduct, New York . . . 38--39
Anonymous London's New Underground Electric
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Anonymous Attack on the Coast-Defense Ship
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Anonymous An Improved Marking-Gage . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous The Statue of Lafayette at Paris . . . . 43--43
Anonymous A Springless Harness Snap-Hook . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Fireproofing Wood . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Anonymous The End-of the-Century Steamship . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Our Vast Railway System . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Increase of our Navy Since the Spanish
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Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous An International Exhibition and
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Anonymous A Large Water Rolling Mill . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Accident to the Torpedo-Boat ``Dupont'' 52--52
John Trowbridge The Electrical Plant of the Jefferson
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Anonymous An Ingenious Calculator . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous A Yacht that Sails itself . . . . . . . 56--56
Anonymous Locomobile Wrinkles . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Otis T. Mason Types of American Indian Basketry . . . 57--58
Anonymous Through Niagara Whirlpool Rapids in a
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Electrical Equipment of the Park Avenue
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Anonymous An Important Patent Suit . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Rail-Joints and Street Noises . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Resources and Improvements in China . . 66--67
Anonymous The New Agriculture of the Tropics . . . 67--67
Anonymous Indican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous As Others See Us . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous The Preservation of Wild Animals of
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Anonymous The Queen--Schultz Chronoscope . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Artillery Practice of the National Guard 68--69
Anonymous The Hone Automatic Flood-Gate . . . . . 69--69
Anonymous A Perforator for Printing Presses . . . 69--69
Anonymous An Improved Packing . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Anonymous A Convenient form of Sash-Weight . . . . 70--70
Benjamin Sharp The Guardian of the Oyster . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous The Hamburg--American Liner
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Anonymous Clever Feat with the Camera . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous A Musical Bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous The Protection of American Game . . . . 82--82
Anonymous High Speed in War Vessels --- The
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Anonymous American Engineering Competition . . . . 82--83
Alton D. Adams Petroleum Fuel for Warships . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Operation on the Xiphopages . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous A Novel Engine for Die-Sinker's Use . . 84--84
Howard B. Dailey Electrical Top and Motor . . . . . . . . 84--84
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Anonymous The Paris Exposition . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous The Ascension of Count Zeppelin's
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Anonymous Underground Electric Railway, London ---
Methods of Construction . . . . . . . . 89--90
D. Allen Willey The Petrified Forest of Arizona . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Recent Experiments with the Radiations
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Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Economies of Superheated Steam in the
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Anonymous Tool Steel at the Bethlehem Steel Works 98--98
Anonymous Chinese Artillery and the Present Crisis 98--98
Anonymous A Suggestion as to Street Signs . . . . 98--98
Anonymous The Leading Railway Systems of the
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Anonymous The Entrance to the Mississippi River 98--99
Anonymous Irrigating the Sugar Plantations of
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Anonymous New form of Cellulose . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous International Mining Congress . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Death of De Witt Clinton Haskin . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Caviar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Telegraph Line in Germany . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous A Curious Case of Skin-Shedding . . . . 100--100
Alonzo R. Marsh The Marsh Motor Cycle . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous New Form of Electric Automobile . . . . 101--101
Anonymous The Most Powerful Locomotive Ever Built 101--101
Anonymous The Manufacture of Mechanical Rubber
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Edward McGarvey The Use of Harmonic Vibrations in
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Anonymous Palace of Hungary at the Exposition . . 105--106
Cosmos Mindeleff White Indians of New Mexico . . . . . . 107--107
Charles F. Holder Some Pacific Jellyfishes . . . . . . . . 107--108
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 124--125
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Progress of the New York Rapid Transit
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Anonymous High-Lift Locks for the Erie Canal . . . 114--114
Anonymous Recent Armor Plate Bids . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Lowering of the Atlantic Record . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Compressed Air Traction in New York City 114--115
Alton D. Adams Limits of Electric Transmission . . . . 115--115
Anonymous The Chemistry of Soot . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Paris Exposition Notes . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Experiments with X-Rays in Electrostatic
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Anonymous Super-Heated Water Motor for Railroad
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Waldon Fawcett Problems of the Chinese Campaign . . . . 117--118
Anonymous Some Stage Effects in ``Ben Hur'' . . . 119--119
Anonymous The Paris Metropolitan Underground
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Anonymous The Howell Disappearing Carriage . . . . 121--122
Anonymous A Simple Rotary Pump for Light Service 122--122
Anonymous Gathering and Curing Crude Rubber . . . 123--124
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Air Resistance to Moving Bodies . . . . 130--130
Anonymous The Element of Safety in Smokeless
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Anonymous A New Gas Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous An Interesting Clock . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Inquiry Concerning Water Tube Boilers 130--130
Anonymous Polyglot China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous The Death of Prof. J. E. Keeler . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Awards at the Paris Exposition . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Locomotive Snow Plows in Europe . . . . 132--132
Anonymous The Silk-Producing Spider of Madagascar 133--133
Anonymous First Class Battleship ``Kentucky'' . . 134--135
Anonymous Salvage of the ``Oregon'' . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous The Brooks Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Paris Exposition --- Interior of the
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Anonymous Nernst Lamp at the Exposition . . . . . 138--139
Anonymous Lumber Rafts on the Columbia River . . . 139--139
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous California Raisin Culture . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Retrospect of the Year 1900 . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous A Pyrotechnic Fire-Alarm . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Method of Constructing Wooden Water-Pipe 6--6
Anonymous A Wonderful Clock . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
W. C. Peckham A New Induction Coil . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Some Interesting Experiments in
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Anonymous The French Armored Cruiser ``Montcalm'' 10--10
Anonymous A Safety Military Spy-Glass . . . . . . 10--11
Marcus Benjamin The Bolometer or Actinic Balance . . . . 11--12
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous The New Star in Perseus . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous An Important Telephone Patent Decision 146--146
Anonymous The Slaby System of Wireless Duplex
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Anonymous A New Permanent Phonograph Record . . . 147--147
Anonymous The Pollok Memorial Prize . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous An Improved Gasoline Automobile . . . . 148--148
Anonymous San Gimignano and Its Towers . . . . . . 148--148
Charles P. Holder Trees and Plants of Southern California 149--149
Anonymous The Paige Typesetting Machine . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous The Slaby System of Wave-Selective
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W. Frank M'Clure Automatic Ore Unloader . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Anonymous A Pail for Live Bait . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous A Valve Motion for Small High-Pressure
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Anonymous A New Book or Copy Holder for
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous The Proposed Naval Memorial Arch . . . . 162--162
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Anonymous Curiosity and Science . . . . . . . . . 162--163
Anonymous Eros, the Celestial Range Finder . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The Automobile in the Klondike . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Experiments with Animal Tissue . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The Longest Subterranean Telegraph Cable
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Anonymous The Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers . . 164--164
Anonymous The Old Boonton Forge . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Most Powerful Express Locomotive in the
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Anonymous The Pitch Lake and the Asphalt Industry
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Anonymous Third Rail in the Baltimore Belt Line
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Charles F. Holder Solar Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous The Fleming Safety Collar for Shafts . . 170--170
Anonymous An Efficient Single-Pull Ceiling-Switch 170--170
Anonymous A Folding Bunk for Cars and Ships . . . 170--170
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
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Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous American Engineering Progress . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Current of 3,000 Volts at the Motors . . 178--178
Anonymous Construction of the Simplon Tunnel . . . 178--179
Anonymous Three Important Patent Decisions by the
United States Court of Appeals at New
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Anonymous The Glasgow Exhibition of 1901 . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Resignation of Commissioner Duell . . . 179--179
Anonymous Production of Phosphorus and Chlorides
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Anonymous The Burry Page-Printing Telegraph . . . 181--182
Anonymous Transport Service to the Philippines ---
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Anonymous A Peculiar Railroad Accident . . . . . . 184--184
J. Carter Beard Three Characteristic Types of American
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J. A. Stewart The New Street Railway Tunnel under
Boston Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Anonymous A Novel Pipe and Stud Wrench . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous An Automatic Weighing-Machine for
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 203--204
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous The Ganz System and the London Electric
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Anonymous Cup-Yacht Designing . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Yellow Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous New Method of Aerial Telegraphy . . . . 194--195
Anonymous Builders' Trial of the ``Illinois'' . . 195--195
Anonymous The Patent Office --- Resignation of the
Commissioner of Patents . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Russian Army and Marine . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous The Remains of an Old Indian Village . . 195--195
Anonymous The Mutoscope and Machinery in Motion 196--196
Anonymous The Topophone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Anonymous The International Racing-Yacht
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Anonymous A New Method of Manufacturing Steel Pipe 200--201
Anonymous Porter Rotary Engine . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Anonymous A Novel Self-Heating Sad-Iron . . . . . 202--202
Charles F. Holder A Singular Industry in the Poisonous
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Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Prospects of the New Erie Canal . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Water-Tube Boilers in the British Navy 210--210
Anonymous Longitudinal Framing for the Herreshoff
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Anonymous Our Advancing Trade . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Sylviculture and the Suez Canal . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Automobiles in New York . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Method of Detecting Hypo in Photographic
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Anonymous Electrically Illuminated Fountains . . . 212--212
Anonymous The new Russian Battleship
``Czarevitch'' as she Will Appear When
Completed for Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
Anonymous A Sugar Cane Reaper Wanted in Hawaii . . 213--214
Anonymous Training School for New York Streetcar
Motormen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous The Omnigraph --- an Instrument for
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Anonymous Hydraulic Electric-Car Brake . . . . . . 216--217
Charles F. Holder A Remarkable Salt Deposit . . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous An Improved Pipe-Wrench . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous A New Wickless Oil Burner . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous The Wentworth Cotton Gin . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 235--235
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Extension . . 226--226
Anonymous A Step Backward . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Lake Vessels for the Atlantic Trade . . 226--226
Mary Proctor Government Eclipse Expedition . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous Electrical Protection of the Mails . . . 227--227
Anonymous The New Commissioner of Patents . . . . 227--227
Anonymous The New York Botanical Garden Museum . . 227--227
Anonymous Launch of the Pacific Mail Liner
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Anonymous An Interesting Boiler Explosion . . . . 228--229
Arthur B. Weeks Recent Developments at the Niagara Falls
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Anonymous Rodney Hunt Turbine Plant at the Great
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Anonymous Balloons at Vincennes . . . . . . . . . 232--232
Anonymous A New Pile Driver . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Anonymous Fifteen Years' Development of the
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Anonymous An Improvement in Lubricators . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous The Erie Canal Muddle . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous Application of the Coherer to Detection
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Anonymous Improved Process of Duplicating
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Anonymous New Products in the Glass Industry . . . 242--242
Anonymous New Chemical Compounds . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Anonymous Local Conditions Favorable to the Cotton
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Anonymous A Moving Grazing Pen . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Stern-Wheel Steamers on the Mississippi
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William C. Peckham The Present State of X-Ray Work . . . . 245--245
Howard B. Dailey Electrical Gyroscopes . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Construction of the New East River
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Waldon Fawcett Modern British Ordnance . . . . . . . . 248--249
J. H. Collins Making Large Plaster Casts . . . . . . . 249--250
Anonymous A Novel Haystacker and Derrick . . . . . 250--250
Anonymous A Pen with Increased Ink Capacity . . . 250--250
Anonymous A Completely Inclosed Arc Lamp of Small
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Anonymous A Machine for Cleaning Blackboard
Erasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 267--268
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous The Locomotive of the Future --- a
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Anonymous Behr on his High-Speed Monorail System 258--258
Anonymous Submarines for the British Navy . . . . 258--259
Marcus Benjamin The National Academy of Sciences . . . . 259--259
Anonymous The Ordnance Board's Test of Thorite . . 259--259
Anonymous Death of Prof. Henry A. Rowland . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Death of Richard P. Rothwell . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous A New Weather Cannon . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Will. B. Stout How to Make a Gramophone . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous Parsons 1,000-K. W. Turbine and
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Anonymous Raising A Submerged Steamship . . . . . 261--261
Anonymous Army Transport Service in the
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Anonymous An Improved Plow . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous An Automatic Boiler-Feeder . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous A Wheat Hospital on Lake Superior . . . 264--264
J. Carter Beard Some New Features in Ant Life . . . . . 265--266
Anonymous The Cooper Hewitt Lamp . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 268--268
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous The North River Bridge Bill . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Rerolling Old Steel Rails . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Nitro Cellulose vs Nitroglycerine
Smokeless Powders . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous The Smithsonian Report . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Anonymous The Baldwin--Ziegler Expedition to Franz
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Anonymous The New Assistant Commissioner of
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Opening of the Pan-American Exposition 275--275
Anonymous A Perpetual Motion Clock . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Launch of the White Star Liner
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Anonymous The Murray Page-Printing Telegraph . . . 277--278
Anonymous The Nile Irrigation Works . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Turkish Submarine Boat of the
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Anonymous Siberia in the Glacial Age . . . . . . . 280--281
Anonymous Hofman's Flying Machine . . . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous A Simple Car Mover . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Combination Metal and Wood-Working
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Anonymous A Novel Fifth-Wheel . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Chicago Drainage Canal Complications . . 290--290
Anonymous Liquid Air as A Blasting Agent . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Train Brake Results of High Speed . . . 290--290
Anonymous Waterways and Canals of Canada . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Transportation of Trains on Lake Baikal 290--290
Anonymous Thorium Compounds . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Anonymous Some Figures of the First Cost and
Operation of Southern Cotton Mills . . . 291--291
Anonymous A Tool for Driving Screw-Eyes . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Automatic Frost Valve for Water-Pipes 292--292
Anonymous A New Igniter for Explosion-Engines . . 292--292
Anonymous The Launch of ``Shamrock II'' . . . . . 293--293
Anonymous Construction of the Yacht
``Constitution'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Parker Simonsen How to Make an Iron Rose . . . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous A Disappearing Town . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Cosmos Mindeleff A Cliff-Dwelling Park in Colorado . . . 297--298
S Frank Aaron The Bean Weevils . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous Business and personal Wants . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous The Efficiency of the Steam Turbine . . 18--18
Anonymous The Ship-Subsidy Bill . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Edmund O. Hovey The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the
Geological Society of America . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Proposed Improvements at the Sault Ste.
Marie Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Moving Picture Litigation . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Death of Lord Armstrong . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous A New Quick-Firing Gun . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Irrigation in the Hawaiian Islands . . . 20--21
Anonymous The Zodel Flexible Coupling . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous A Simple Method of Broaching Brasses and
Bearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous The Building and Repairing of Tall
Chimneys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Anonymous A Large Lathe for Turning Granite
Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
D. A. Willey Curious Effects of Boiler Explosions . . 24--25
Anonymous Dredges for the New 40-Foot Channels of
New York Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous Three Recently Patented Novelties . . . 27--27
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous The Existence of Bodies Smaller than
Atoms --- The Corpuscular Hypothesis . . 306--306
Anonymous Proposed Abolition of the Army Transport
Service on the Atlantic . . . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous A New Type of Coast Defense Gun . . . . 306--306
Anonymous ``Shamrock'' and ``Constitution'' . . . 306--306
Anonymous New Electric Traction Systems in Europe 306--307
Anonymous Variability in Light of Eros . . . . . . 307--307
Enos Brown Cultivation of Rubber in Mexico . . . . 307--307
Anonymous An Attachment for Trolley Poles . . . . 308--308
Ralph C. Davison A Concrete Chimney . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous A New Ice-Conveying Apparatus . . . . . 308--308
Waldon Fawcett The Tobacco Industry . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous New Gas Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Manufacture of Plate Glass . . . . . . . 311--311
Alfred G. Mayer The Mastodon at the Brooklyn Institute
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
Anonymous Launch of the ``Constitution'' . . . . . 312--313
Emil Gathmann Gathmann 18-Inch Torpedo Gun . . . . . . 313--314
Anonymous Malaria and its Prevention . . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Pipe Galleries for the Rapid Transit
Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Remarkable Results at Sandy Hook . . . . 322--322
Anonymous The Growth of London and New York . . . 322--322
Anonymous Forestry in India and Canada . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous New Process for Plaster of Paris . . . . 322--323
Charles Frederick Holder Wild Animals in Winter . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous New Trans-Pacific Cable . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Russian Bayonet Exercises . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous The Popoff--Ducretet Apparatus for
Wireless Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous A Hydraulic Bicycle Joint . . . . . . . 324--325
Anonymous Government Tests of Maximite at Sandy
Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Some Features of the New York Rapid
Transit Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous An Ice Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--328
Anonymous The ``Shamrock'' Under Sail . . . . . . 328--328
W. F. Watson The Amateur in Photomicrography . . . . 329--329
N. Hudson Moore An Interesting Insect --- \em
Thyridopteryx Ephemeræformis . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 347--351
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous The New Edison Storage Battery . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Last of the Cable Systems in New York 338--338
Anonymous Opening of the Pan-American Exposition 338--339
Anonymous High-Class Work at our Navy Yards . . . 339--339
Anonymous The ``Factor of Safety'' in ``Shamrock'' 339--339
Anonymous The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Double-Track Railway Viaduct Over the
Des Moines River . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous The United States Experimental Model
Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
Anonymous Jerome Park Reservoir . . . . . . . . . 342--343
Enos Brown Pine Needles Industry in Oregon . . . . 344--344
Anonymous Alcohol as Fuel for Motor Carriages . . 344--344
Anonymous Removing the Disabled 65-Ton Gun of the
``Kearsarge'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Anonymous The Experiments of M.Curie . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous A Portable Mortising Machine . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Business and personal wants . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous The Canadian Route from the Great Lakes 354--354
Anonymous Hydraulic System of Air Compression . . 354--354
Anonymous Comparative Efficiency of Krupp and
Other High-Power Guns . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous Growth of the Tinfoil Industry . . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Methods Proposed for Dealing with
London's Congested Traffic . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy for the Prevention
of Shipping Disasters . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Waldon Fawcett Copper Mining in America . . . . . . . . 356--357
Anonymous Electric Automobile --- Krieger System 357--357
Anonymous A New Flying Machine . . . . . . . . . . 357--357
Frank C. Daniel A Whistling Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Launch of the Battleship ``Ohio'' . . . 359--359
Anonymous The Cultivation of Cocoa in the West
India Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
Anonymous The Pan-American Exposition . . . . . . 360--362
Anonymous A Pneumatic Spring for Vehicles . . . . 362--362
Anonymous A New Metal Railway Tie . . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous A Supplemental Seat for Vehicles . . . . 362--362
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 363--364
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous The Greatest of Power Stations . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous A Costly Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Rapid Transit Tunnel to Brooklyn Assured 370--370
Anonymous The Wave Line of the ``Georgia'' . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Germany's Foreign Trade in Machinery . . 370--370
Anonymous Laws of Absorption of X-Rays for
Different Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
M. Proctor Expected Return of Encke's Comet . . . . 371--371
Anonymous The St. Louis Exposition of 1903 . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Twenty-Five Knot Naval Scouts . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous The Steam Yacht ``Lysistrata'' . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous An Efficient Car-Fender . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous The Electrograph --- a New Facsimile
Telegraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous Floor System of the New East River
Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous A Chinese Telephone System . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous The New Edison Storage Battery . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous The New Floating Drydock for the United
States Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous A Simple Brick-Carrying Device . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous A Self-Measuring Pump for Liquids . . . 378--378
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous American Locomotives Abroad . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Protection of Iron Structures . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Our Fastest Battleship . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Aime Witz Gas Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous The Clothing of the Ancient Romans . . . 387--387
Anonymous An Adjustable Power-Hammer . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Launch of the Submarine Torpedo Boat
``Fulton'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
J. Guenaire The Form of Mercury Bath --- Experiments
at the Observatory of Paris . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous The Three Cup-Yachts of 1901 . . . . . . 389--390
Anonymous Pressed-Steel System of Car Construction 391--391
Anonymous The Stralau--Treptow Tunnel under the
River Spree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Frank D. Adams Method of Testing Specimens of Marble 393--393
S. Frank Aaron The Life History of an Insect Parasite 394--394
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Anonymous Biggest in the World . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous Extraordinary Speed in the
Paris--Bordeaux Automobile Race . . . . 402--402
Anonymous The Lesson of the Recent Ferryboat
Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
Anonymous The New Clyde Line Steamship ``Apache'' 402--402
Anonymous Reconstruction of German Cruisers . . . 402--403
Anonymous Death of T. C. Clarke . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous A Novel House Mail-Box . . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Curious Docking Accident . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous A Self-Closing Spigot or Faucet . . . . 404--404
F. B. Embree The Water Supply System of Chicago . . . 405--406
Anonymous Provisioning a Transatlantic Liner . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Ganz Electric Line of Valtellina . . 408--408
Anonymous Method of Utilizing Old Street Cars . . 409--410
Anonymous Three Recently Patented Novelties . . . 410--410
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 411--412
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 43--44
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous A Brake that Works . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Whom the Gods Would Destroy they First
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Anonymous That Message from Mars . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Continental Criticism of the 16-Inch Gun 34--34
Anonymous The Tunneling Craze . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous The Enlargement of the White House,
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Anonymous Speed Records of the Bicycle for 1900 34--34
Anonymous Transmitting Signals through the Sea . . 34--35
George D. Rice Some of the Singular Foods of the
Filipinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous An Overhead Hoisting and Carrying Device 36--36
Anonymous Panhard & Levassor Petroleum Locomotive 36--36
George M. Hopkins VII. Simple Hygroscope . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous The Rapid Transit Tunnel . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous The Mirograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Anonymous An Interesting Group . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Manufacture of Water-Gas at the
Forty-Fourth Street Station New York ---
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Waldon Fawcett American Car Ferries . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Anonymous Vaccine Virus --- Its Preparation and
its use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Effect of Forced Draught on Coal
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Anonymous The Twentieth Century Sailing Vessel . . 50--50
Anonymous Pupin's Long Distance Telephony . . . . 50--50
Anonymous The Kress Airship . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous The International Convention for the
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Edward S. Holden Orbits of Revolving Double Stars . . . . 51--51
Anonymous A Prize for Beer-Cooling Mixtures . . . 51--51
Anonymous A Wonderful Piece of Clockwork . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous A Runner for Vehicles . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous The Burton Plastic Pressure Tube
Expander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
D. Allen Willey Irrigation Farming in the Southwest . . 53--54
Frank C. Perkins German Express Locomotive with Auxiliary
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Anonymous An Eight-Mile House Moving . . . . . . . 56--56
Anonymous Train Lighting from the Car Axle . . . . 56--57
Anonymous Recent Gasoline Automobiles . . . . . . 57--57
Anonymous The Annual Bicycle Show at Madison
Square Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Anonymous Electrical Engineers in South Africa . . 58--58
Anonymous A Combined Miner's Candlestick and Tool 58--58
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous The Naval Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Yacht Racing and the Towing Tank . . . . 66--66
Anonymous The Importance of Registering Trade
Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Electrolytic Preparation of Phosphorus 66--66
Anonymous Tesla's Wireless Light . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous The Twin-screw Cruising Yacht
``Prinzessin Victoria-Luise'' . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous A Simple Saw Setting and Gumming Machine 68--68
Charles Frederick Holder Famous Basaltic Columns . . . . . . . . 68--68
J. A. Stewart Unique Elevated-Underground Street
Railway in Boston . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Waldon Fawcett The Steepest Railways in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Death of Prof. Elisha Gray . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous A New Flying Machine . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous The New York Cycle and Automobile Show 73--73
Arthur J. Mundy Submarine Signaling . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
George.M. Hopkins VIII Mercurial Barometer . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Beaumont Oil Well . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Anonymous Press for Preparing Fomentations . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Novel Inventions Recently Patented . . . 75--75
Anonymous Picture Making on the Typewriter . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous Business and Personal . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Rail Joints and Street Noises . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Pound-Per-Horsepower Economy . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Progress of Turbine Propulsion . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Air Resistance of Railway Trains . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Relative Fighting Efficiency of Warships 82--82
Anonymous Comparative Cost of Prime Movers . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Efficiency in Action . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous The Spontaneous Breaking of an Inkwell 84--84
Anonymous The Subway of the City of Berlin . . . . 84--84
Anonymous A Lens Attachment for Lamps . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Telephone Auto-Commutator . . . . . 85--86
Anonymous The Hamburg American Yacht ``Prinzessin
Victoria Luise'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous What can be made of Orange Peel . . . . 88--88
Anonymous The Proposed Widening of London Bridge 88--88
Waldon Fawcett The Canals of Canada . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous The Old Cutler's Shop at the Exposition 90--90
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 107--108
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Superposed Turrets for Our Latest
Battle-Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous An Aluminium Transmission Line . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous A Point in Boiler Construction . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Vibration from Underground Trains . . . 98--98
Anonymous The Annual Report of the Commissioner of
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous England's Long-Deferred Decadence? . . . 98--99
Isaac Taylor Headland The Unscientific Character of Chinese
Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Vanderbilt Locomotive Boiler . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous A Combination Pipe and Bench Vise . . . 101--101
Anonymous Steering Torpedoes by Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Anonymous Manufacture of Water-Gas at the Forty
Fourth Street Station, New York --- II 102--102
Waldon Fawcett Ingenious Water-Wheels . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous The Truncated Man . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
N. Hudson Moore The \em Mantis Religiosa in Rochester,
N.Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous A Novel Hinge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous A New Form of Insulator . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous An Instrument for Drawing Ellipses . . . 106--107
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous East River Rapid Transit Tunnel . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Sir William White and the New Royal
Yacht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Tesla's Wireless Telegraphy . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous High-Speed Passenger Steamers on the
Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Smokeless Powder and Gun Erosion . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Prizes for Inventions a Legitimate
Encouragement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous Are You about to Build? . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Zenobe T. Gramme . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Our Business and Personal Want Column 115--115
Anonymous Zodiacal Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Powerful Nine-Ton Dipper Dredge . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Petroleum as an Illuminant for Buoys . . 117--117
Anonymous The Orchestra-Man of the Exposition . . 117--118
Anonymous Silk Manufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Anonymous De Dietrich Automobiles . . . . . . . . 120--120
Charles Frederick Holder Running Down Whales . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous A Glimpse of the Naval Battle of
Santiago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Three Recently Patented Novelties . . . 122--122
Anonymous Repairing a Broken Shaft at Sea . . . . 122--122
Anonymous A Simple and Efficient Clipper Grinder
and Surface Grinder . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 123--123
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March, 1901 . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Cables for the New East River Bridge . . 130--130
Anonymous The Retirement of Rear-Admiral Hichborn 130--130
Anonymous Aeronautical Congress . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Lotus Poison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Estimation of Tungstic Acid in its Ores 131--131
Anonymous Musical Sounds from the Electric Arc . . 131--131
Anonymous An Automatic Reducing Valve of Novel
form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous The Largest Camera in the World . . . . 132--132
Anonymous The Potter of ``Old Berry'' at the
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Pod Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Albert T. Clay Excavations at Nippur . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Anonymous The Kress Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous The Vertical Growth of New York City . . 137--138
Anonymous A Simple Door Latch for Refrigerators 138--138
Anonymous A Triple-Jawed Pipe-Wrench . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous An Improvement in Capsuling-Machines . . 138--138
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Handling Excavated Material at Jerome
Park Reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Anonymous Railroad Connections with Manhattan
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous American Locomotives in England . . . . 2--2
Anonymous Height of Ocean Waves . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous Selenides of Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Alton D. Adams Coke as a Substitute for Anthracite Coal 3--3
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous A Wyoming Fossil Quarry . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous A Starting-Device for Hydrocarbon Motors 5--5
Anonymous A Trolley Palace Car . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous A Novel Twine Holder and Cutter . . . . 5--5
Charles F. Holder Pyramids of Del Mar --- Erosion on the
Pacific Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The Thomas Auto-Tricycle . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous The Lance-Boats of the German Cavalry 9--10
Anonymous A New Instrument for the Measurement of
High Temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 11--12
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous A Promising Type of Gun . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Some Chemical Mysteries . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous The Design of Propellers . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Marconi Telegraphs on the British Fleet 146--147
William H. Hale Pan-American Meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers . . . 147--147
John Chamberlain Extermination of the Mosquito . . . . . 147--147
Budd A. Wright A Simple Home-Made Lathe . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous A Laboratory Apparatus for Liquefying
Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous The Manufacture of Matches . . . . . . . 149--150
Alton D. Adams Distribution of Combined Electrical
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous New 5-Inch Segmental Wire-Wound Gun for
the United States Army . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous The Willis Avenue Bridge Over the Harlem
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Marcus Benjamin How Money is Made . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous The Wreck of the Santos-Dumont Balloon 155--155
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous The Attempt on the President . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous ``Columbia'' --- Twice a Cup Defender 162--162
Anonymous A Timely Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Target Practice at Aldershot . . . . . . 162--162
E. O. Hovey The American Association for the
Advancement of Science . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The Best Class Trade Paper . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The New Atlantic Liner ``Kronprinz
Wilhelm'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Anonymous An Improved Chalk-Line Holder . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous The Loschwitz Suspension Railway . . . . 165--165
Anonymous A Grease-Pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous The Temporary Footways of the New East
River Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
Anonymous The Five-Horned Giraffe . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous The Ascent of the Matterhorn . . . . . . 168--169
Anonymous The Newport Automobile Races . . . . . . 169--170
A. Frederick Collins How to Construct an Efficient Wireless
Telegraph Apparatus at a Small Cost . . 170--171
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous ``God's Will be Done --- Not Ours'' . . 178--178
Anonymous Proposed Remodeling of the Croton Dam 178--178
Anonymous A Great Salvage Feat . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Canaigre Growing in the United States 178--178
Anonymous Rapid Development of Wireless Telegraphy 178--179
Anonymous The New French Liner ``La Savoie'' . . . 179--179
Anonymous Germany's Commercial Depression --- Its
Causes and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous A New Driving Axle for Automobiles . . . 180--180
Anonymous Self-Propelling Automatic Grab Bucket 180--181
Anonymous House Boat ``Loudoun'' . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Anonymous An Adjustable Electric Book Lamp . . . . 181--182
Anonymous The Croton Dam for the Water Supply of
New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Improved Hydrographic Instruments . . . 184--184
Anonymous The Manufacture of Caramels . . . . . . 185--186
Charles Frederick Holder A Curious Means of Defense . . . . . . . 186--187
Anonymous Increasing use of Oil on Highways . . . 187--187
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Peary's Arctic Discoveries . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous ``Columbia'' and ``Shamrock'' . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous New York--Buffalo Endurance Race . . . . 194--194
Anonymous The M. Santos-Dumont Balloon No. 6 Fails 195--195
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous An Electrical Water-Heater . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous An Improved Fertilizer-Distributer . . . 196--196
Anonymous Harbor Improvement, Oakland, Cal . . . . 196--197
Anonymous Curious Locomotive Explosion . . . . . . 197--197
Anonymous A Locomotive Curiosity . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Waldon Fawcett Rolling Lift Bridges . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Foster's Fog Signals . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Orrin E. Dunlap Foolhardy Attempts at Passing the
Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara . . . . . . 201--202
Anonymous A Destructive Bolt of Lightning . . . . 202--202
Anonymous A New Motor Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Trade Dollar Consolidated Mining
Company's Electric Plant, Snake River,
Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous The Towing Tank and the Deep Sea . . . . 210--210
Anonymous The Royal Tombs at Abydos . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous The True Point of View . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous The Holland Submarines for the British
Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Belleville Versus Cylindrical Boilers 211--211
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous The ``Fool Killer'' Taking Soundings . . 211--212
Anonymous Eighty-Ton Floating Crane for the Santos
Harbor Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous An Electrical Glass-Furnace . . . . . . 212--213
Anonymous The ``Santos-Dumont No. 6'' . . . . . . 213--214
Wilber Colvin Electricity in Gold Mining . . . . . . . 216--217
Anonymous Fifty Years of ``America'' Cup Contests 217--218
Anonymous Synthetic Talking Machine . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous The Loss of the ``Viper'' and the
``Cobra'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous The Tandem Compound Locomotive . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Some of the English Royal Treasures . . 226--227
Anonymous Extensive Project for Irrigating Egypt 227--227
Anonymous Inventing Games and forms of
Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous The Ezekiel Airship . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Great Sluice Gates for the Nile
Irrigation Works . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous An Automobile Forage Wagon . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Queen Alexandra's Dairy . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Jupiter Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous The New 50-Caliber Rapid-Fire Guns of
the United States Navy . . . . . . . . . 232--232
Anonymous The 1901 Contest for the ``America'' Cup 232--235
Anonymous A Skein for Wagon Axles . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Turntable for Hand-Cars . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous A Novel Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous A Fireproof Pipe Covering . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Delayed Naval Construction in Private
Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Aftermath of the ``America'' Cup
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Anonymous Deterioration of the Brooklyn Bridge . . 242--242
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Anonymous A New Automatic Telegraph Repeater . . . 245--246
Anonymous A Curious Windmill . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Burial Monuments of North Africa . . . . 248--248
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Anonymous A Curious Example of Petrifaction . . . 249--249
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
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Anonymous Feeding the Wild Animals . . . . . . . . 259--259
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Anonymous A Large Wood Pulley . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
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Anonymous The Russian Battleship ``Retvizan'' . . 263--263
Anonymous French Military Folding Bicycle . . . . 264--264
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Anonymous Count De La Vaulx's Balloon Trip across
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J. Carter Beard Something about Ancient American
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
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Anonymous Important Application of Electric Power
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Anonymous Thirty Years' Growth of the Locomotive 276--276
Anonymous Tandem Compound Locomotive for the
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Enos Brown A California Marine Railway . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous How to Make a Simple Split Pulley . . . 277--277
Anonymous Progress of Construction of the Rapid
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Anonymous Waste-Heat Auxiliary Engine . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous The Electric Cable Span at Carquinez . . 280--281
Waldon Fawcett Bee-Keeping in the United States . . . . 281--282
Anonymous An Ingenious Writing Machine . . . . . . 283--283
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
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Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Anonymous New Department of the
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Anonymous Forced Versus Natural Draft . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Accident to the 10-Inch Brown Segmental
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Anonymous Marconi Telegraphy on the High Seas . . 290--290
Anonymous Gas Engine Plants . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous The New York Central Tunnel . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Balloon and Automobile Match . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Recent Automobile Accidents . . . . . . 290--291
George E. Walsh The New Coast Signal Service . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous How to Study Autumn Leaves . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Hrolf Wisby Style in Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Enos Brown The Artificial Cultivation of the Rubber
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Harold J. Shepstone Building the New Beachy Head Lighthouse 294--295
Anonymous Some Methods of Construction of the
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Anonymous Towing the New Naval Drydock to Algiers,
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Anonymous United States and German Patent Practice 298--298
Anonymous Col. J. J. Astor's Marine Turbine . . . 298--299
Anonymous An Adjustable Ventilator for Windows . . 299--299
Anonymous An Improved Saw-Sharpener . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Devices Curious and Interesting . . . . 299--300
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 27--27
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Anonymous Paris--Berlin Automobile Race . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Death of Prof. John Fiske . . . . . . . 19--19
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Anonymous A New Street Sign for Lamp-Posts . . . . 26--27
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Anonymous Proposed Increase of the Navy . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous The Tunnel Between Scotland and Ireland 308--308
Anonymous The Problem of the Locomotive Boiler . . 308--308
Anonymous New London Telephone System . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous The Berlin--Zossen High Speed Electric
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Anonymous Paris Exhibition of Alcohol-Consuming
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Anonymous End of the Pan-American . . . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous Prizes Covering Over . . . . . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Waldon Fawcett A Novel Salvage Operation . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Building the Approaches of the New East
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Anonymous French First-Class Battleship
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George M. Hopkins A Few Meteorological Instruments . . . . 312--312
Anonymous Work on the Simplon Tunnel . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Santos-Dumont Wins the Deutsch Prize . . 314--314
Anonymous Some Exhibits at the Automobile Show . . 314--316
Anonymous The Wheel within Wheel . . . . . . . . . 316--316
J. G. M'curdy The Teredo and Its Work . . . . . . . . 317--317
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Our New Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous A Compound Condensing Steam Carriage . . 324--324
Anonymous M. Santos-Dumont's Plans to Cross from
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Anonymous Further Tests at Sea of the Belleville
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Marcus Benjamin The National Academy of Sciences . . . . 325--325
Anonymous Dr. Stein's Travels in Chinese Turkestan 325--325
Anonymous German Port of Emden . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Frederick Moore Cable Laying in the Philippines . . . . 326--326
Orrin E. Dunlap New Concrete Arch Bridges at Niagara . . 327--328
A. B. Wyckoff The Puget Sound Navy Yard . . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous The Lick Observatory---Crocker Eclipse
Expedition to Sumatra . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Some Exhibits at the Automobile Show ---
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A. C. Carson The Opossum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 334--334
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 353--353
Anonymous The Recent High-Explosive Shell Tests at
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Anonymous A New Thermo-Electric Couple . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous The Growth and Status of Natural Gas . . 340--341
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December and The New Star
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
S. Frank Aaron Useful Spiders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous The Cape to Cairo Telegraph . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Important Competitive Test of
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Anonymous Our Latest Design for Battleships . . . 345--346
Anonymous New Automobile Speed Records . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Anonymous Three New Electrical Devices . . . . . . 349--349
Anonymous Removable Firebox and Grate for Cooking
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 352--352
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Reconstruction of the Croton Dam . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Irrigation of the Delta of the Colorado 358--358
Anonymous The Conversion of Grape Tendrils into
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Anonymous Cave Drawings of the Palæolithic Epoch 359--359
Mary Proctor Nebula in Nova Persei . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Fred P. Woodbury A New Synchronism Indicator for
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Anonymous New Atlantic Type of Passenger
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Anonymous Rankin Bridge for the Transit of Molten
Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous The Manufacture of Oil-Cloth . . . . . . 362--362
Frederick Moore The New Drainage and Sewerage System of
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Anonymous Portraiture by Flash Light . . . . . . . 365--365
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Treating Fruit-Trees for Scale . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Improvement in Dredge Shovels . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Peace and a Powerful Navy . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Warship Construction at the Government
Navy Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Our Naval Development Since the War with
Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous ``Revolutionizing'' Naval Warfare . . . 374--375
Anonymous Battleships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous ``Alabama'' Class --- First-Class
Battleship ``Wisconsin'' . . . . . . . . 376--378
Anonymous Engines of the Battleship ``Wisconsin'' 378--378
Anonymous ``Maine'' Class --- First-Class
Battleship ``Maine'' . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous ``Virginia'' Class --- First-Class
Battleship ``Georgia'' . . . . . . . . . 378--381
Anonymous Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Guns and Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
Anonymous Gun-Mounts and Breech Mechanisms . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Armor Plate and High-Explosive Shells 384--385
Anonymous Armored Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous The Semi-Armored Cruisers of the ``St.
Louis'' Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Protected Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387
Anonymous Submarine Torpedo Boats . . . . . . . . 387--388
Anonymous Torpedo-Boats and Destroyers . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Torpedo-Boat Destroyer ``Perry'' . . . . 388--390
Anonymous Our Relative Standing Among the Naval
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal Station
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Anonymous Nicaragua or Panama . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous An Interesting Automobile Damage Case 407--407
Anonymous The Robert Fulton Memorial . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous The International Kerosene Oil Motor . . 408--408
Anonymous Safety Device for Engines and Condensers 409--409
Anonymous Iron Making on the Pacific Coast . . . . 409--410
Anonymous An Improved Hay Stacker and Builders'
Derrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Giant Sand Wheel for the Calumet and
Hecla Mining Company . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Mary Proctor Measuring the Heat of the Stars . . . . 412--413
Hrolf Wisby The Evolution of the Motor Cycle . . . . 413--414
Anonymous Hypnosis in Frogs . . . . . . . . . . . 414--415
C. F. Holder A Rare Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 416--416
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January, 1902 . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 432--433
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 434--434
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Anonymous Books: New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--437
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Transoceanic Wireless Telegraphy . . . . 422--422
Anonymous Appreciation of the Naval Number . . . . 422--422
Anonymous Bridges Versus Tunnels . . . . . . . . . 422--422
M. Loewy Annual Report of the Work of the
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Anonymous A Pendulum Propeller . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
A. Frederick Collins The Slaby--Arco Portable Field Equipment
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Anonymous The Pennsylvania--Long Island Connecting
Railroad Tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
Anonymous New Submarines for the United States
Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous The Combined Third and Traction Rail
System of Haulage . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
Anonymous Alcohol Automobiles at the Paris Alcohol
Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
Anonymous Method of Lighting the Great Water Tank
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 430--430
Anonymous Simple Interesting Inventions . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 433--433
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous A New Scheme of Trade Mark Blackmail . . 34--34
Anonymous The Struggle of the Cup Champions . . . 34--34
Anonymous A Naval Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Defective Assignments of Patents and
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Anonymous Introducing American Methods in England 35--35
Anonymous Manufacture of Celluloid Beads . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Ernst Ruhmer The ``Photographophone'' . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous A New Typesetting Machine . . . . . . . 37--38
Anonymous Two of the Latest Types of Battleships 39--39
Anonymous Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Automobile
for Military Purposes . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous The First Passenger Turbine Steamer
``Edward VII'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Waldon Fawcett The Most Primitive American Savages . . 41--42
Anonymous The West Virginia Flood . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 45--45
Edgar L. Larkin The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The Relocation of our Railroads . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Some Results of the Albany Filtration
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Anonymous An Epitome of American Railway Methods 50--50
Anonymous The Future Possibilities of Siberia . . 50--51
Anonymous Two Eminent California Scientists . . . 51--51
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous New Weaving Device . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous The Fastest Trip of the ``Deutschland'' 51--51
Anonymous The Westinghouse Electric Brake and
Heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Fog Studies on Mount Tamalpais,
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Anonymous A Novel Chain-Stopper . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Anonymous An Improved Blowpipe . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Leon M. Hall Electric Hoists on the Comstock . . . . 53--54
Anonymous The Manufacture of Blown Glass-Lamp
Chimneys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Anonymous The Paris--Berlin Motor Carriage Race 56--57
Anonymous The Conquest of the Air . . . . . . . . 57--58
James M'ilhenny A Natural Sand Blast . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Future Reconstruction of the Brooklyn
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Anonymous Recent Developments in the British Navy 66--66
Anonymous Electrical Method for Determining the
Variations of Mineral Waters . . . . . . 66--67
H. Pellat National Physico-Technical Laboratories 67--67
Anonymous The Work of the Egyptian Exploration
Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Baby Incubators at the Pan-American
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous The New Riverside Viaduct, New York . . 69--70
Anonymous The Three Great Suspension Bridges
across the East River, New York . . . . 70--70
Anonymous A New Kind of Water-Tank . . . . . . . . 71--71
Charles F. Holder A Wave Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous The Largest Floating Dock in the World 72--73
Anonymous Some Remarkable Tree Growths . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Nemethy's Flying-Machine . . . . . . . . 73--74
Anonymous A New Semi-Dry Battery . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Failure of the Brooklyn Bridge . . . 74--76
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Supervision and Safety of the Brooklyn
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Anonymous The New York Central Railroad Tunnel
Nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Divergent Opinions on Battleship Design 82--83
George E. Walsh Various Uses of Paper . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous A Combined Box-Cap and Shoe-Plank Holder 84--84
Anonymous Stephenson's Locomotive . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous A Novel Can-Opener . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Frederick A. Talbot The Electrical Causes of Changes in the
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Anonymous Coke Making in the Connellsville Region 86--86
Anonymous The Examination and Sorting of Eggs . . 88--88
Anonymous The Turbine Engines of the ``King
Edward'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous The Santos-Dumont Balloon . . . . . . . 89--90
Edward Coleridge Roberts A New form of Barometer . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous The New Battleship Design Controversy 90--91
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous To Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Mishap to the Santos-Dumont Airship . . 98--98
Anonymous Big Ships and Deep Waterways . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Humidity and Heating Systems . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous The Proposed History of the Patent
Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Water-Tube vs. Fire-Tube Boilers for
Naval Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Arthur B. Weeks In the Terminal Station at Buffalo . . . 100--100
Anonymous Relative Speed Indicator . . . . . . . . 100--101
Charles F. Holder Burning the Sierra Madres . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous East Indians in the Island of Trinidad 101--102
Anonymous Railroad Track Nut-Lock . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous The White Star Liner ``Celtic'' . . . . 103--103
Day Allen Willey The Erection of the Gokteik Bridge . . . 104--104
Anonymous Yale's Large Dinosaur . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Waldon Fawcett Self-Propelling Fire Engines . . . . . . 105--107
Anonymous Sir Norman Lockyer on Sun Spots . . . . 107--108
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
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Anonymous Trade and Higher Education . . . . . . . 114--114
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Anonymous Modern Structural Steel . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous American Adulterated Fabrics and Tests 115--115
Anonymous Baron Nordenskjöld Dead . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous A Device for Straightening Rugs . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Freight Locomotive for Heavy Grades . . 116--116
Anonymous A Simple Locomotive Engine Indicator . . 116--116
Anonymous Modern Grain Elevators . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Alton D. Adams Steam Heat with Condensing Engines . . . 118--119
Anonymous The Telepherage System of Transportation 120--120
Waldon Fawcett A Fire Department Drill School . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous The Eleventh Challenger for the America
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Anonymous A New Luminous Fountain . . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Vulnerability of the Superposed Turret 123--123
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 124--124
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 134--135
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Germany's Industrial Crisis . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Vast Municipal Improvements in New York
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Anonymous Railway Systems of the United States . . 130--131
Marcus Benjamin Charles Sedgwick Minot . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Exports to Porto Rico . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Advantages of Paper Negatives . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Cantilever Bridge on the White Pass and
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Anonymous An Automobile Mower . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Palermo--Monreale Electric Incline . . . 133--134
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Anonymous A Novel Lubricator and Heater . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous The Bogue Window-Sash . . . . . . . . . 138--138
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Anonymous The Fastest Long Distance Train in the
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Anonymous A 70,000 Horse Power Plant . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous How Various Countries Subsidize their
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Anonymous Earth Telephone Experiments of M.
Ducretet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous A New Type of Motor Car . . . . . . . . 168--168
William S. Crandall A Pneumatic Fire Escape and Tower . . . 168--168
Frederick Moore Test of the New Floating Drydock at
Algiers, La . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
A. Frederick Collins The Guarini Repeating Wireless Telegraph
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Waldon Fawcett Ore Handling at Furnaces . . . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous The Villard Flying Machine . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous A New Level and Plumb . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Electrical Hot-Water Heating System . . 174--174
Anonymous Simple and Interesting Inventions . . . 174--175
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
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Anonymous The Park Avenue Hotel Fire . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy in Naval Warfare . . 182--182
Anonymous A Pledge to Improve the Park Avenue
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Anonymous The British Naval Program for 1903 ---
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Frank C. Perkins The Search Light in Photographic Work 184--184
Anonymous The Atbara River Bridge . . . . . . . . 184--185
Anonymous The Mergenthaler--Horton Basket-Making
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Anonymous Electrolytic Refining of Copper . . . . 187--187
Anonymous The New York Assay Office --- Melting
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Anonymous A New Equatorial Telescope for Oxford 189--190
Anonymous ``Bataclan'' --- The French Army
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 193--193
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
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Anonymous The New Era for the Steam Engine . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Temporary Relief at the Brooklyn Bridge 200--200
Anonymous Use of Various Motors in Aerostatics . . 200--201
Ansley Irvine Incomes of Successful Inventors . . . . 201--201
Anonymous Lead Mining in Wisconsin . . . . . . . . 201--201
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Anonymous The Motsinger Ignition Dynamo . . . . . 202--202
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Anonymous Some Disastrous Acetylene Gas Explosions 203--203
Anonymous The Engines of the New York Edison Power
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Anonymous The Cranberry Industry . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Frank C. Perkins Three-Phase 10,000-Volt Railway at
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous A New Spring Block . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Double-Moldboard Hilling-Up Plow . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Hydrocarbon Burner . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Simple and Interesting Inventions . . . 209--209
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 211--212
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1902 . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 230--230
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Anonymous Speed on the Elevated Railroad Curves 218--218
Anonymous Moving Sidewalk for the Brooklyn Bridge 218--218
Anonymous Faulty Pipe Threads . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous A Novel Turbine Destroyer . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Armor Plate for the Russian Government 218--218
Anonymous Fire Inspection of Hotels . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Objections to the Pennsylvania Tunnel
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Anonymous Sailing Vessels in the Suez Canal . . . 218--218
James Asher Electricity and Power Direct from Heat 219--219
Irving U. Townsend A Curious Instance of Re-Invention . . . 220--220
Anonymous An Oil-Burning Water-Tube Locomotive
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Anonymous Cave-in at the Park Avenue Rapid Transit
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Anonymous Shell Practice in City Armories . . . . 222--223
Anonymous The Severo Airship . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Automobile Department . . . . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Flexibility of the Frame . . . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Automobile Coupé Built for the Sultan of
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Anonymous A Novel Three-Wheel Automobile . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous A Motor Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous A New Water-Level Regulator for Steam
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Anonymous Automobile Novelties . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Recent Fire Losses in America . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous East River Bridge No. 3 . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous A Healthy Decadence . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Safe Explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous The Work of the Weather Bureau in 1901 234--234
Anonymous Coming Automobile Endurance Tests . . . 234--235
Anonymous Scientific Nomenclature . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous A Brief History of Street Gas . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Frederick Moore The South Widening Her Field of
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Anonymous The Park Avenue Tunnel Cave-in . . . . . 237--237
H. J. Shepstone The New Bermuda Floating Dock . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous The Glass Palace in ``Beauty and the
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John Trowbridge Lightning above and below Water . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Reconstruction of the Union Pacific
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J. Carter Beard Where Instinct Fails . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Chainless-Bicycle Coaster-Brake
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Anonymous The Hartford Steel-Plate Exhauster . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Regan Locomotive Boiler . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Station Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous The Latest Steam Turbine Plant . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous The Largest Locomotive Engine in Great
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Anonymous A Novel Method of Bridge Erection . . . 252--252
Anonymous American Methods for English Workmen . . 252--252
Anonymous A Comparison of Water-Tube Boilers . . . 252--252
Anonymous French Railway Enterprise in Abyssinia 252--253
George E. Walsh The Expansion of Winter Farming . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Waldon Fawcett Broadside Launchings . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous The Improved Simplex Typewriter . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Night Signal for Trolley Lines . . . . . 255--255
A. W. Clapp Southern Pacific New Line Across Great
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Anonymous A Water-Tube Locomotive Boiler . . . . . 256--256
L. C. Schafer Capsizing of the French Bark ``Asie'' 258--258
Anonymous An Object Lesson in Heavy Ordnance . . . 258--258
Day Allen Willey Indicating and Recording the Tides . . . 259--260
M. C. Frederick Something about Pelicans . . . . . . . . 261--261
Anonymous The Future of Photography: An Early
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous The American Scholarships at Oxford . . 270--270
Anonymous Unjust and Ungenerous . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous The Airship and the Aeroplane . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Men of Wealth as Inventors . . . . . . . 270--271
Anonymous Record of American Auto Shows . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Electric Searchlight for Field Service 272--272
Anonymous Railroad Train Taking Its Own Photograph 272--272
Anonymous Home-Made Device for Decorating Glass 273--273
Anonymous A New Variable Speed Transmission . . . 273--274
Edward W. Byrn The Mechanical Work of the Twelfth
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John L. von Blon A Boat on Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Henry L. Geissel Some Interesting Features of the Krupp
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Herman Muckermann An Insect Geometrician . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous The Hanson--Lee Typewriter . . . . . . . 279--280
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 298--299
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 301--301
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Reconstruction of West Point Academy . . 288--288
Anonymous The Fleets of the World . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous The Cost of Ammunition at Manila and
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Anonymous Report of the Prussian Commission on
American Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy and the Promoter . . 288--289
Marcus Benjamin Recent Meeting of the National Academy
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--289
Anonymous The Improvement of the Erie Canal . . . 290--291
Anonymous A Self-Starting Gasoline Motor of Novel
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Anonymous A Gas-Engine Friction Clutch . . . . . . 291--292
Anonymous The Manufacture of Steel Rails . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous A Canal Excavator for Java . . . . . . . 294--294
S. Frank Aaron Insects in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Breaking up 15-Inch Cast-Iron Guns . . . 295--296
Anonymous An Acetylene Wireless Telephone
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Anonymous Roman Forum Excavations . . . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 299--299
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous The Panama Canal Treaty . . . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Great Steamship Combine . . . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Steering with Twin-Screw Engines . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Combining the Airship and the Aeroplane 306--306
Anonymous Sanitary Condition of Street Cars . . . 306--307
Anonymous Lord Kelvin --- England's Greatest
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Anonymous New Airship Under Construction for the
British War Office . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous Powerful Locomotive for Suburban Service 308--309
Anonymous The Growth of the Transatlantic
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Frank C. Perkins Underground Electric Railways Abroad . . 311--311
S. Harbert Hamilton The Sisal Industry in the Bahamas . . . 312--312
Day Allen Willey Mechanism for Predicting the Tides . . . 312--313
Anonymous Zuni, an Ancient City of the Pueblos . . 313--314
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Anonymous Adjustable Claw-Bar . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Automatic Drive-Gate . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Tree-Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 317--317
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Fastest Authentic Railroad Run on Record 324--324
Anonymous Perils of Submarine Navigation . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous The Gathmann Gun Again . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Fessenden's Electric Wave-Detector . . . 324--324
Anonymous Attuned Wireless Telegraphy . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous The Naval Appropriation Bill . . . . . . 324--325
Anonymous American and British Locomotives in
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Anonymous The Recent Automobile Endurance Test . . 325--325
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Anonymous The New Japanese Battleship ``Mikasa'' 326--327
Anonymous New System of Street Cleaning . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous The Testing of Highspeed Engines . . . . 327--328
Anonymous Experiments of M. Curie . . . . . . . . 328--328
Anonymous Ash-Sifter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--328
Anonymous A New Means of Using Compressed Air in
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Anonymous London Smoke Deposits . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Day Allen Willey Novel Uses for the Trolley Current . . . 330--332
Anonymous A New Stereopticon Light . . . . . . . . 332--332
Charles F. Holder Tameness of Wild Animals . . . . . . . . 333--333
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
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Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous The Alcohol Motor and Its Possibilities 18--18
Anonymous Large Stationary and Marine Engine Units 18--18
Anonymous Automatic Closing of Watertight
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Ansley Irvine The First Iron Vessel in Great Britain 18--19
Marcus Benjamin Clarence King . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous A Hardware Locomotive . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous The Launch of the Battleship
``Missouri'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Opening the Power Station of the
Manhattan Elevated Railway . . . . . . . 21--22
Thomas R. Baker A Contrivance for Collecting Atmospheric
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Waldon Fawcett Making Roads by Machinery . . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous The Nernst Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous An Automatic Car Tipple for Mine
Railways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous A New Rotary Engine . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 28--28
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Our Vast Steel Industry . . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous The Stations of the Rapid Transit Subway 342--342
Anonymous Electricity or Steam for High-Speed
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Anonymous Roentgen Ray Burns . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Guarding against the Submarine . . . . . 342--343
Anonymous The United States and the Metric System 343--343
Anonymous Admiral Sampson . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous The Photorama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Anonymous The Venice of Long Island . . . . . . . 345--345
Anonymous Manufacture of Steel Rails --- II . . . 346--347
Anonymous A New Heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Frank C. Perkins The Introduction of the Steam Turbine
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Charles Frederick Holder Buttes and their Formation . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Automobile Department . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous The Simms Armored War-Car . . . . . . . 350--351
Anonymous Some Modern Automobile Accumulators . . 351--352
Walter L. Beasley Monster Crustaceans at the American
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous Volcanic Eruptions and the Isthmian
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Anonymous Havana Transformed . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
Anonymous Liquid Fuel for Steamships . . . . . . . 360--360
Anonymous Fusion of Quartz . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Anonymous A New Revised Design Patent Law . . . . 361--361
Ernest Ashley The British Submarines . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous A Novel Tool-Grinding Attachment . . . . 362--362
Anonymous Total Wreck of the Severo Airship . . . 362--363
Waldon Fawcett The Latest Advance in Wireless Telephony 363--363
Anonymous The Disaster in the West Indies and Its
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365
Waldon Fawoett Handling Material in Shipyards . . . . . 366--368
Isaac Taylor Headland Queer Chinese Trees . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
Walter L. Beasley Story of the Fishskin Garments of the
Amur Tribes of East Siberia . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Lathe Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Illuminated Indian Club . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous Fireproof Mail Cars . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Early Use of the Water-Tube Locomotive
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Anonymous Dangers of Peddled Ice Cream . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous The Expansion of our Foreign Commerce 376--376
Anonymous The Imperfect Definition of the
Photographic Image on Dry Plates . . . . 376--377
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Alton D. Adams Inspection of Gas Meters . . . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Progressive-Motion Ore-Conveyer . . . . 378--378
Edward W. Byrn The Unveiling of the Rochambeau Statue 378--379
Anonymous Hygienic Mechanical Bread-Making . . . . 379--380
Anonymous Sinking the Caissons for East River
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Anonymous Pompeii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
M. C. Frederick Cynips Polycera . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
Waldon Fawcett Railroads in Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Anonymous The Nice--Turbie Race . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous An Oscillating Compound Steam Engine of
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Anonymous Wave and Tide Motor . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous Lamp-Hanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous Friction Clutch Pulley . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous The Nation's Baskets . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 386--386
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
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Anonymous Sensible View of the Steamship Combine 392--392
Anonymous The House Naval Bill . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Tubes Versus Shallow-Tunnel Railroads 392--392
Charles F. Holder Some Active and Extinct Volcanoes . . . 393--393
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Anonymous Tractor-Barges on the Nivernais Canal 394--394
Anonymous Setting the Heavy Granite Columns on the
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Anonymous The Severo Airship Catastrophe . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous Building of American Locomotives --- I 396--397
Anonymous Vent-Closing Valve for Pumps . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Folding Ice-Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
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Anonymous Curious Bridge at Zanesville, Ohio . . . 398--398
Day Allen Willey Self-Dumping Cars in Railroad
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Anonymous New Form of Lippmann Electrometer . . . 400--400
Anonymous Earthquake Recorders in America . . . . 400--400
Charles F. Holder The Utilization of Pampas Grass . . . . 400--401
Anonymous An Antique Bronze Head of the Roman
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Edward Hale Brush An Ancient Iroquois Rite . . . . . . . . 401--401
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 402--402
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 422--422
Anonymous Books: New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
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Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425
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Anonymous A Daring Investigation of Mont Pelée . . 410--410
Anonymous The Commercial Prospects of Africa . . . 410--411
Marcus Benjamin Chemical Indexing by the Patent Office 411--411
Anonymous Sinking a Shaft by Freezing . . . . . . 411--411
A. W. Clapp Preliminary Work on the \$3,000,000
{Government} Contract in the
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Anonymous Moving a Large Railway Bridge . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous The Electric Road of Berthoud--Thoune,
Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--414
William R. Brooks The Brooks Comet of 1902 . . . . . . . . 414--414
Frank C. Perkins The Modern use of Electricity in
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Anonymous Early British Double-Turreted Monitors 416--416
W. Frank M'clure Bee-Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--418
Anonymous Railroad Freight Handling in New York
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Anonymous The Baker Electric Racing Automobile . . 419--419
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 420--420
Anonymous Planter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--420
Anonymous Utilizing the Tube Space in Bicycle
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 422--422
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 437--437
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 437--440
Anonymous Books: New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--441
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 441--441
Anonymous Analysis of the Recent Automobile
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Anonymous Practical Application of Scientific
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Anonymous Richard L. Maddox, M.D. . . . . . . . . 428--429
William Gilbert Irwin The Development of the Sault Ste. Marie
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Day Allen Willet Making Fifty-Ton Anchor Chains . . . . . 429--429
Waldon Fawcett Silkworm Culture in America . . . . . . 430--431
J. Carter Beard Reflex Action of Plants as Compared with
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Anonymous Mixing Pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--432
Anonymous The Ruins of St. Pierre . . . . . . . . 433--433
George J. Jones Extraordinary Trench Digging . . . . . . 434--434
Anonymous A 20-Ton Traveling Electric Crane . . . 435--435
Anonymous The Elliott Book-Typewriter . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous A New Form of Trunk . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 437--437
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous The Senate Panama Canal Bill . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Three Phase Traction in America . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Two Remarkable Railway Runs from New
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Anonymous Government Irrigation . . . . . . . . . 444--445
C. D. King Forced and Shrink Fits . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Chevallier Electric Target . . . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous The Tractor in Lumbering Operations . . 447--448
Anonymous Fiji and the Fijians . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
Day Allen Willey The Packing Industry of Chicago . . . . 450--451
A. Frederick Collins The Grisson Continuous-Alternating
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Anonymous New Typewriter Keyboard . . . . . . . . 453--453
Anonymous A Recent Rear-End Collision on the New
York Central Railroad . . . . . . . . . 453--453
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
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Anonymous The Canal from the Engineering
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Anonymous The Canal from the Standpoint of Common
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Anonymous The New York Central Tunnel Tragedy . . 34--35
Anonymous The Perfecting of the Gasoline Motor . . 35--35
Anonymous Electro Optical Phenomena . . . . . . . 35--35
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Anonymous A Novel Harrow-Tooth . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Alcohol Automobiles at the Paris Alcohol
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Anonymous The Wydts Electro-Catalytic Sparking
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Anonymous A Lever-Device for Oil-Rods . . . . . . 38--38
James Harold Thompson The Year of 1901 in the Klondike . . . . 38--38
Anonymous A Comparison of the Panama and Nicaragua
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Anonymous Some Experiments with Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Frank C. Perkins Shawenegan Falls Power Plant . . . . . . 41--42
Frederic A. Lucas Constructing an Extinct Monster from
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
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Anonymous The Electric Elevated Trains . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Target Practice in the United States
Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous A New Trade Route to Persia . . . . . . 50--51
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Anonymous A Scarcity of Officers in the Merchant
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Anonymous Successful Wireless Telegraphy at Sea 51--51
Anonymous The Welsbach Gasoline Burner . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Novel Steam Turbine and Dynamo
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Dolezalek The Langen Suspended Railway of
Bar-Men-Vohwinkel-El-Berfeld . . . . . . 53--54
E. T. Mills Trades and Crafts in the Old Spanish
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Anonymous Feeding a 26-Foot Python . . . . . . . . 57--57
Anonymous Proposed Solution of the New York
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Anonymous Device for Preventing Shipwrecks . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Tire-Repairing Tool . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous A Mechanical Vegetable-Cutter . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous An Improved Nut-Lock . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Some New Interesting Inventions . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Recommendation of the Panama Route . . . 68--68
Anonymous The Faulty Embankments of the Jerome
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Anonymous Long Distance Transmission . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Advance of the Marine Turbine . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous The Ship Subsidy Bill . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Anonymous The Supposed Dangers of Electric
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Anonymous Two Hundred Thousand Dollars in Prizes
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Anonymous Verdict in New York Central Tunnel Wreck
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Anonymous A Fire Alarm Whistle Blown by Gas . . . 70--70
Anonymous Lifting Jack for Electric Cars . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous The Great Clearing Yard at Chicago . . . 70--71
Anonymous A Self-Feathering Paddle-Wheel . . . . . 71--71
Day Allen Willey Scientific Methods of Moving Trees . . . 71--72
Anonymous The Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel Bridge 72--72
Frederick Moore Work of the Isthmian Canal Engineers . . 73--73
Charles F. Holder Some Trees and Forests of California . . 74--74
H. J. Shepstone The Marconi School of Wireless
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Anonymous The Experimental Study of the Motion of
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Anonymous Modeling in Beach Sand . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Lessons of the Murray Hill Explosion . . 84--84
Anonymous Frailty of Torpedo Boat Destroyers . . . 84--84
Anonymous Subterranean Temperature . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The East River Bridge from the
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Anonymous Railway Workmen and Disbursements . . . 84--85
Alton D. Adams Practical Value of Nernst Lamps . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Construction of the Aspen Tunnel . . . . 86--86
Anonymous The Manufacture of Submarine Cables . . 87--88
Anonymous Explosion of Dynamite at the Rapid
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Frank C. Perkins High-Speed German Railway at Zossen . . 91--92
Anonymous Profit in Patented Inventions . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Interesting New Inventions . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Possibilities of a Steel Panic . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Germany's Export Trade in Her Hour of
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Anonymous Double-Decking the Brooklyn Bridge . . . 102--102
Anonymous The Torpedo-Boat Fiasco . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Reclaiming Our Coast Lands . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous A New Polar Expedition . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous New Salt of Glucinium . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Waldon Fawcett Mail Transportation in Cities . . . . . 104--104
George M. Hopkins Home-Made Electric Night Lamp . . . . . 105--105
Anonymous Curious Horn Growth . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Anonymous Portable Coal-Loading Machine . . . . . 105--106
Parker S. Simonsen How to Make a Cheap Hydrometer . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous The New York Assay Office . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The Improvement of Washington . . . . . 108--109
Mary Proctor The Yerkes Observatory Two-Foot
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Charles F. Holder A Pigeon Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Revival of the Old Hudson River Tunnel
Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous The Darien or San Blas Tunnel Canal
Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Naval Development during the Next Decade 118--119
Anonymous Steam Boiler Inspection . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Our Forthcoming Automobile and Outing
Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous A Variable Speed Gear for Pumps . . . . 120--120
Waldon Fawcett Photographing by Electric Headlight . . 120--120
Anonymous A Simple Method of Etching Pictures . . 121--121
Anonymous The Santos-Dumont Airship No. 7 . . . . 121--121
Anonymous The New Redheugh Bridge at
Newcastle-On-Tyne . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Improved Railjoint . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Enos Brown Winter Railroading in Alaska . . . . . . 124--125
Anonymous Some Aeronautical Experiments . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's
Collection of Nefs . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
L. P. Gratacap The Sands of Cape Cod . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous The Automobile on the Stage . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Special Features at the Chicago Show . . 134--134
Hrolf Wisby A Practical Automobile Touring Outfit 134--135
Anonymous Automobile Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Steam Carriages . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Anonymous The Stearns Steam Station Wagon . . . . 137--137
Anonymous The Lane Steam Carriage . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous The Overman Steam Automobile . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous The Grout Queen Stanhope . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Gasoline Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous The Knox Two and Four-Passenger Carriage 140--141
Anonymous The Emperor's Yacht ``Meteor III'' . . . 141--141
Anonymous Gasoline Automobiles --- 1902 Models . . 141--143
Anonymous High Speed Twin-Screw Yacht ``Vixen'' 143--143
Anonymous The Marine Automobile . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Anonymous The Cycle Whirl . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous An Automobile Sled . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous A Bicycle-Driven Catamaran . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous A Snow Bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous The Packard Gasoline Touring Car . . . . 146--147
Anonymous The Duryea Gasoline Carriage . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Electric Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous The Houseboat ``Rancocas'' . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Twin-Screw Houseboat Designed for the
Late Pierre Lorillard . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Automobile Tires . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Automobile Roller Axle Bearings . . . . 152--152
Anonymous Automobile Novelties . . . . . . . . . . 152--155
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Prospective Completion of the Panama
Interoceanic Canal . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous A Prussian Opinion of American Railways 2--2
Anonymous The Need of a Locomotive Smoke Consumer 2--2
William H. Hale The American Institute of Electrical
Engineers --- Great Barrington Meeting 2--3
Marcus Benjamin Asaph Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Timber Railway Bridges in Australia . . 3--4
Waldon Fawcett Pneumatic Tools in Ship Yards . . . . . 4--6
Anonymous Experiments with Electro-Magnetic Waves
on Mont Blanc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Day Allen Willey Rapid Transit of Material . . . . . . . 8--9
Charles F. Holder Some California Lizards . . . . . . . . 9--9
M. C. Frederick Santa Barbara's Big Grapevine . . . . . 9--10
Anonymous Device for Securing Door-Knobs . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous A Summer Weather Water Boiler . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Harvester Reel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous Improved Veneer Basket . . . . . . . . . 11--11
A. Frederick Collins A Simple and Efficient Wireless
Telegraph Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 12--12
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September, 1902 . . . . . 149--149
George M. Hopkins Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Ventilation of Underground Roads . . . . 148--148
Anonymous West Point Methods for Sandhurst . . . . 148--148
Anonymous A Point in Boiler Construction . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Our Fastest Battleship . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Electric Glass Smelting . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous The Emerald Industry of Colombia . . . . 148--149
Anonymous The Supplanting of Agriculture by
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Another Great Hydraulic Electric Power
Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Where Wood Engraving Originated . . . . 149--149
Anonymous New Ten-Wheeled Passenger Engine . . . . 150--150
Anonymous A New System of Sinking Shafts . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Schneider--Canet Launching Apparatus for
Submarine Torpedoes . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Hydraulic Process for Manufacturing
Gun-Cotton Charges . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous The New York Edison Power Station . . . 152--152
Waldon Fawcett Shade-Grown Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Remarkable Blasting Operations in Slate
Quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous The New Russian Battleship ``Kniaz
Potemkin Tavritchesky'' . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Largest Watch in the World . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Anonymous A New Saw-Clamp . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous The Motorman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous ``America'' Cup Races in 1903 . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous The Defenses of Long Island Sound . . . 166--166
Anonymous Electrical Treatment for Lead Poisoning 166--167
Anonymous New Ways of Measuring Water . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous The Death of Prof. Virchow . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Malleable Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous The Loomis Carbureter and Muffler . . . 169--169
Anonymous Various Applications of the Gasoline
Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous Headlight with a Vertical Beam . . . . . 170--170
Waldon Fawcett The Enlargement of the United States
Capitol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
E. C. Rost Queer Craft Seen on My Travels in the
Philippines, China and South America . . 173--173
Anonymous Adjustable Wheelbarrow . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Automatic Chemical Fire Extinguisher . . 174--174
Anonymous A Shutter Attachment . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
James G. M'Curdy Boring Clams of the Northwest Coast . . 175--175
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous The Speed Trials of the ``Arrow'' . . . 182--182
Anonymous The Irrigation of the Nile Valley . . . 182--182
Anonymous Soft Coal for Domestic Use . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Distribution of Industries . . . . . . . 182--183
Anonymous ``All the World's Fighting Ships'' . . . 183--183
Anonymous International Mining Congress --- Butte
Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Paul Elsner Athens Excavations at Corinth . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous The Semi-Automatic Piano-Player . . . . 185--186
Edmund S. Smith An Improved Drying Oven . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous The Steam Yacht ``Arrow'' --- The
Fastest Boat in the World . . . . . . . 188--189
Anonymous The Nile Irrigation Works . . . . . . . 189--191
Anonymous Universal Workholder . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous An Improved Knife . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous A Stall for Horses or Cattle . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous A New Type of Water Cooler . . . . . . . 191--191
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Anonymous The Latest Atlantic Steamship . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous The Return of Lieut. Peary . . . . . . . 198--198
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October, 1902 . . . . . . 199--199
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Anonymous Portable Engine Boiler Explosion . . . . 200--200
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Anonymous The Rapid Transit Subway, New York . . . 202--203
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Anonymous The Jaubert Method of Producing Oxygen
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
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George Ethelbert Walsh Protecting Our Wild Animals . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Paris Metropolitan Railroad --- New
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Anonymous Electric Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Waldon Fawcett Modern Pile Drivers . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
A. Frederick Collins Some New Detectors for Wireless
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Anonymous The Manufacture of Tin Plate --- I . . . 221--221
Anonymous The Manufacture of the New Fireproof
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Anonymous Stevens' Airship . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
John G. Rothermel Prehistoric Mexican Sign Writing . . . . 225--226
Anonymous The Truffault Racer . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 245--246
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Anonymous Titles to the Panama Canal . . . . . . . 234--234
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Anonymous Further Development of Niagara Falls
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Anonymous The Water Tube Boiler Problem . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Power from Oil in Texas . . . . . . . . 234--235
Anonymous The World's Volcano Record for 1902 . . 235--235
Anonymous Two Rival Airship Ascents . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Colliers for the British Navy . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous A Sicilian Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
George D. Mitchell Razing a Big Stack with Dynamite . . . . 236--236
Alberta Field The Rameses Colossus . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Alfred E. Hall Curious Effect of Lightning on a Brick
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Anonymous The Electrical Manufacture of Peat-Fuel 237--238
Anonymous Faller Automatic Telephone Exchange . . 238--239
Franklin Riffle The Big Bend Tunnel for Power
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
H. C. Fyfe Experiments at St. Catherine's with Fog
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Charles F. Holder The Chinese Press in America . . . . . . 241--241
Anonymous An Improved Piano Resonator . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous An Electric Detector of Ores . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Puncture-Proof Inflatable Wheel . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
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Anonymous The Pressing Need of Our Navy . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous British Criticism of American Railroads 252--252
Anonymous Where Our Manufactures Go . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Railroad Expansion in South Africa . . . 252--253
Anonymous The Three Hundredth Anniversary of
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Anonymous An Example of Wireless Telegraphy's
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Anonymous Successful Test of a Tower Elevator . . 253--253
Anonymous The Commercial Utilization of
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Anonymous New York--Boston Automobile Reliability
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Anonymous Improved Rail-Bearing Plate . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous The Latest British Armored Cruiser
``Good Hope'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Waldon Fawcett Coal Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
William Edward Ward The Spencer Airship and its Thirty-Mile
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Harold J. Shepstone The Scientific Training of Wild Animals 260--261
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous The Aftermath of the Coal Strike . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Output of the United States Steel
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Anonymous Electric Equipment of a Great Railroad 268--268
Anonymous Balloon Trip across the Sahara . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Recent Improvements in Weaving . . . . . 268--269
George E. Walsh Maine's Wood Novelty Mills . . . . . . . 269--269
William Von Brennerberg A Textile Novelty . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Anonymous The De Bradsky Airship and the Tragic
End of its Inventor . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
Anonymous New York--Boston Automobile Reliability
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Nicolae Ionescu King Charles I Bridge across the Danube 272--273
Anonymous Two New Incandescent Gas Burners . . . . 273--273
Anonymous The Rowland Multiplex System of
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Anonymous Substitutes for Coal in Heating and
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Anonymous A Novel Rotary Engine . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Envelope-Sealing Machine . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 279--279
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Street Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous The Steam Turbine from the Commercial
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Anonymous The Twenty Five Knot Cunard Steamships 286--287
Anonymous Test of a Norwegian Life-Saving Boat . . 287--287
Anonymous The ``Preussen,'' the World's Largest
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Anonymous A Huge Meteorite Recently Discovered . . 288--288
Anonymous An Ancient Fire Engine . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous The Sault Ste. Marie Water Power Canal 289--290
Anonymous Manufacture of Tin Plate --- II . . . . 290--290
Anonymous A Portable Windmill . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Ruhmer's Optic Telephone . . . . . . . . 292--292
Walter L. Beasley The Zapotecan Tombs Unearthed . . . . . 293--293
Anonymous Traps for the Unwary Inventor . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Improved Drawing Compasses . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Tool for Withdrawing Casings from Wells 295--295
Anonymous Oil Burner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Saw-Tooth Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous The Erie Canal Question . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Liquid Fuel for Naval Purposes . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous A New Hydride of Silicon . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Fruit Parasites and their Destruction 304--305
Anonymous Recovery of Waste in Using White Metals 305--305
Robert Grimshaw Barometer Readings . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Charles F. Holder A Curious use for Elk Horn . . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Explosion of a Locomotive Boiler . . . . 306--306
Waldon Fawcett Hathamite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Anonymous The Automatic Train Controller . . . . . 308--309
Anonymous The Influence of Grades . . . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous The Lansing Skeleton . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous The Pantheon Experiments with Foucault's
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Enos Brown Dredging for Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Anonymous The new Cover Design for United States
Letters Patent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
Anonymous Col. J. J. Astor Dedicates His Marine
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Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Title to the Panama Canal . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Solution of the Bridge Terminal Problem 18--18
Anonymous Science in America . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous The ``Blindness'' of the Submarine . . . 18--19
Anonymous The Metric System in the Textile
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Anonymous The French Alcohol Automobile Endurance
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Anonymous Analysis of Mont Pelée's Volcanic Dust 19--19
Anonymous The Paris--Vienna Automobile Race . . . 19--19
Anonymous Measuring the Rainfall --- The British
Rainfall Organization and its Work . . . 20--21
Anonymous A Remarkable Shipbuilding Feat, 13,000
Feet above the Sea Level . . . . . . . . 21--22
E. C. Rost The Famous Oroya Railroad of Peru which
Climbs Higher than any Other on the
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Harold J. Shepstone Testing the New Bermuda Dock . . . . . . 24--24
William R. Draper Grass Houses of the Wichita Indians . . 25--25
Charles F. Holder Armored Nests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
W. E. Parker An Experimental Motor and Dynamo . . . . 26--26
Anonymous A Perplexing Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Beet-Topping Device . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous An Automatic Siphon Overflow Valve . . . 27--27
Anonymous Fastening Device for Horses . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Municipal Architecture and the Elevated
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Anonymous The Arnold System of Electrical Traction 322--323
Charles Frederick Holder Vocal Sounds of Fishes . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Thomas C. Harris A Punch Centering Device . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous The Inclined Plane of the Morris Canal 324--324
Anonymous Making a Photographic Lens . . . . . . . 324--327
James G. McCurdy Use of Photographs as Evidence . . . . . 328--328
Anonymous Acetylene Searchlights for Automobiles 328--329
Anonymous The Improved Electrograph --- a
Fac-Simile Telegraph . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Anonymous Some Curious Homes . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous De Bradsky Airship Disaster . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous The Lesson of the East River Bridge Fire 338--338
Anonymous Pipe Galleries for the Broadway Tunnel 338--338
Anonymous A Result of Improved Rapid Transit . . . 338--338
George Ethelbert Walsh The New American Lighthouse System . . . 338--339
James Weir, Jr. The Physiology of Certain Colors . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Two New Warships for Chile . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Revolving Chimney Cap . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous A New Soot-Proof Spark Plug for Gasoline
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Anonymous An Automobile Ambulance . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Horseshoer's Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Popp--Branly Aerial Telegraphy Systems 341--342
Anonymous The New East River Bridge Fire . . . . . 344--346
Anonymous The Raising of Peas and Asparagus in the
West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Waldon Fawcett The Submarine Boat ``Protector'' . . . . 346--347
Anonymous Head-On Collision of Trains in Los
Angeles, Cal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 348--348
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 365--365
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Report of the Chief of the Bureau of
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Anonymous Criticism of the New East River Bridge 354--354
Anonymous A 200 Horse Power Motor Propelled Boat 354--355
Marcus Benjamin The National Academy of Sciences . . . . 355--355
Waldon Fawcett The American Hemp Industry . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous A Machine for Laying Bricks . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Official Trials of Our Submarine Boats 357--358
Anonymous The New Beachy Head Lighthouse . . . . . 358--359
Anonymous Natural Effigies . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
W. W. Campbell The D. O. Mills Expedition to the
Southern Hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Day Allen Willey Protecting a Railroad from Flood
Currents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Walter L. Beasley The Symbolism of the Huichol Indians . . 362--363
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Printing Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Wrench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 365--365
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous The Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Test of the Maximum Capacity of the
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Anonymous The Gun in Naval Warfare . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous The Death of Friedrich Krupp . . . . . . 372--373
Irving U. Townsend An American Parallel to the Tulip Craze
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Anonymous Restoration of the Parthenon . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous Non-Freezing Hydrant . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Reversible Screw-Propeller . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous The Navipendulum Method of Experiment 374--375
Orrin E. Dunlap The New Plant of the Canadian Niagara
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Anonymous The Manufacture of Toys and Dolls . . . 376--376
Anonymous The New Monitor ``Wyoming'' . . . . . . 378--378
Thomas R. Dawley, Jr. Guatemala's Earthquakes . . . . . . . . 379--380
Day Allen Willey An Experimental Mono-Rail Line . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 419--426
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 427--428
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 430--434
Anonymous The American Merchant Marine . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous The Two Great Freighters for the Pacific
Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous The Latest of the Fast Transatlantic
Liners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--393
Anonymous Provisioning a Liner for a Single
Transatlantic Trip . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Waldon Fawcett The Development of Transportation on the
Great Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Anonymous The Development of the Auxiliary Yacht 395--396
Anonymous English Turbine-Propelled Yachts . . . . 396--396
Heheert C. Fyfe The Application of Turbine Propulsion to
Passenger Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Anonymous A Ride to Chicago and Back on the
Locomotive of the Twentieth Century
Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Herberd T. Walker Notes on the History of the American
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Anonymous The Railroad System of the United States 402--404
B. B. Adams Block and Interlocking Signals . . . . . 404--408
Waldon Fawcett Compressed Air as a Transportation Agent 408--409
Anonymous A 10,000-Volt Alternating Current
Locomotive for the Berlin--Zossen
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous The Valtellina Railway --- The First
Standard Three-Phase Road . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous The Hon. Salem H. Wales . . . . . . . . 412--416
Anonymous Air Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--418
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 435--438
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--441
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 452--455
Anonymous The Transportation Problem in New York
City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous A Proposed Duodecimal System of Weights
and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous Return of the Jesup Siberian Expedition 440--440
Anonymous A New Type of Auxiliary Vessel for the
British Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--441
Anonymous The Hall-Marking of Gold and Silver in
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--441
Anonymous A Pneumatic Coating Machine . . . . . . 442--442
Enos Brown Dredger for Levee Building . . . . . . . 442--442
Anonymous Transporting the 16-Inch Gun to Sandy
Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous New York and Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Harold J. Shepstone Temple Models for the St. Louis
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
H. C. Fyfe A ``Scientific'' Violin . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous The ``Santos-Dumont No. 9'' . . . . . . 447--448
Walter L. Beasley The Egyptian Paint Palettes . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449
Anonymous Pivoted Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449
Anonymous The ``Stab'' Switch . . . . . . . . . . 449--449
Anonymous Lock Valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--450
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 469--472
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Building American Locomotives in British
Shops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Naval War-Game between the United States
and Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous The New Railroad and Trolley Tunnels
Entering New York . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous The Army Signal Corps . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous To our Subscribers . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous European Sale of Pupin's Telephone
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous A German Ambulance Train . . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Machine for Removing and Disposing of
Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Howard B. Dailey Electro-Magnetic Rotations . . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous Thomas Alva Edison . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
George M. Hopkins Spectral Photography . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous The New Armored Cruisers ``Tennessee''
and ``Washington'' . . . . . . . . . . . 464--466
Anonymous Leading Types of 1902 French
Light-Weight Automobiles . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 469--469
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous The Two Important Problems of the Panama
Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous The Rapid Development of the
Shipbuilding Industry of Japan . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Photography of Sound Waves . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Exhibition of Scientific Devices in
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Marcus Benjamin American Association for the Advancement
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Frank C. Perkins Marine Steam Turbines . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Frank C. Perkins First Oil-Burning Steamship Built in the
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Another ``Heaviest'' Locomotive in the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
A. Frederick Collins The Collins Wireless Telephone . . . . . 37--38
H. H. Byrne Through the Suez Canal on a Man-of-War 38--39
George J. Jones Milk in Powdered Form . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Anonymous A New Curiosity at the New York Aquarium 41--41
Anonymous A Peculiar Lightning-Shattered Tree . . 41--41
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous New Turbine Engine . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Electric Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Bicycle Stands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Pipe Puller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous The Shipping Trust and Higher Rates . . 50--50
Anonymous The Need for Fireproof Electric Cars . . 50--50
Anonymous New Cuban Patent and Trade Mark Law . . 50--51
Anonymous St. Louis Airship Prizes . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous The Meerschaum Industry of Turkey . . . 51--51
Anonymous Shapira the Philological Forger . . . . 51--51
Walter L. Beasley A Long-Tailed Breed of Japanese Fowls 52--52
James G. M'Curdy Salvage of the Schooner ``Minnie A.
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Mary Proctor Plans for a Great Telescope . . . . . . 52--53
Anonymous Tongue-Traction for Resuscitation of the
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G. E. Stonebridge The Militia and the Colt Automatic Gun 53--54
Anonymous Making the Cables on the New East River
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E. C. Rost The Remains of Pizarro, Founder of Peru
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Anonymous The Russian Armored Cruiser ``Gromoboi'' 56--56
Anonymous The Tehuantepec Railroad vs The Isthmian
Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Walter L. Beasley Primitive Reindeer Saddle and Cradle
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F. O. Jones The Formation and Geology of the Salt
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 60--60
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Commercial Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous The Scarcity of Horses . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Some Old Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous A New Form of Radiation . . . . . . . . 66--67
Anonymous Sponge Fishing in the Levant . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Vaporization Experiments . . . . . . . . 67--67
F. C. Perkins Swiss Traveling Crane Tools . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous The New Whipple Temperature Indicator
for use with Platinum Thermometers . . . 69--69
Waldon Fawcett An Automatic Lightship . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Enos Brown A Redwood Lumber Plant . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous The Paris--Vienna Automobile Race . . . 72--73
Anonymous A Trip Across the Atlantic in A Kerosene
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R. I. Geare The Remora or Sucking-Fishes . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Stock and Poultry-Feeding Device . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Anti-Telescoping Train Guard . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Neck-Yoke Attachment . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous A Great Engineering Feat Completed . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Halifax Route to Europe . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Marconi Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Future Transit Facilities of New York
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Anonymous Simplon Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
C. E. Price A Unique Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Launch of the First Seven-Masted Steel
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C. E. Rost Hints for Americans --- Transportation
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Robert C. Fyfe The Great Floating Docks of Bermuda and
Algiers, La . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous The New Marconi Wireless Telegraph
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Anonymous Varied Modern Uses of the Automobile . . 91--92
Anonymous A Pneumatic Water Supply System . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Improvements in Spinning Spindles . . . 93--93
Anonymous Bottle-Washing Brush . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Needless Annoyances in Ferryboat Travel 100--100
Anonymous New Method of Armor Plate Making . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Mid Ocean Wireless Telegraph Station . . 100--100
Anonymous Some Further Gunnery Experiments with
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Anonymous How Ostrich Feathers are Culled . . . . 101--101
Anonymous Military Photography . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous The Amount of Water Used in Irrigation 101--101
Anonymous A Smokeless Automatic Stoker . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous The De Forest System of Wireless
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Frank Yeigh A Group of Indian Masks . . . . . . . . 103--105
E. C. Rost Mont Pelée in Eruption . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Improved Grain Door . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous System for Ventilating Tunnels . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Heater and Boiler . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Dynamite Cruiser Fiasco . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous The Inspection of the Brooklyn Bridge 116--116
Anonymous The Armstrong Orling Wireless Telegraph 116--116
Anonymous Electric Traction on English Suburban
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Anonymous The Greatest of Battleships . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Fessenden Wireless Telegraph Patents
Allowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
George Ethelbert Walsh The Passing of American Plagues . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Robert Bach M'Master . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Thomas R. Dawley Some Recent Archaeological Discoveries
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Anonymous Improved Picture Projecting Apparatus 119--119
Anonymous Moving Large Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Solid Rubber Tire Setting Machine . . . 119--120
A. Frederick Collins Electrical Resonance and its Relation to
Syntonic Wireless Telegraphy --- I . . . 120--121
Anonymous The Building of American Locomotives ---
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
Day Allen Willey How Golf Clubs are made in Large
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Anonymous The Battleships ``Connecticut'' and
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Anonymous Power from an Artesian Well . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Motor-Paced Race on a Cycle Whirl . . . 125--125
Anonymous Burning Oil Gusher in Louisiana . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous Express Trains of the Future . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Light on the Liquid Fuel Question . . . 132--132
Anonymous The Recent ``Belleisle'' Experiments . . 132--133
Anonymous George M. Hopkins . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous The Laying of a Pacific Cable . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Electrified Houses . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous A Mammoth Combined Harvester . . . . . . 134--134
George M. Hopkins Some Modifications of the Normal
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Anonymous The Coronation Naval Review . . . . . . 135--136
A. Frederick Collins Electrical Resonance and its Relation to
Syntonic Wireless Telegraphy --- II . . 136--137
Enos Brown The Snoqualmie Falls Power Plant . . . . 137--137
Charles F. Holder Remarkable Engineering Feats in Railroad
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Frederick Moore The United States Naval Observatory at
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
Anonymous A New Schneider--Canet Naval Gun . . . . 140--140
Anonymous The Ardennes Circuit . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous Formation of the Diamond by the Electric
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Retrospect of the Year 1902 . . . . . . 2--3
Irving U. Townsend The Barber--Colman Knotter . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Babbitting Device . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
A. Frederick Collins The Fessenden Wireless Telegraph System 5--6
Frank C. Perkins Electric Trolley Wagons and Omnibuses 6--6
Waldon Fawcett Winter Obstacles to Transportation . . . 8--9
Enos Brown The Ancient Ruins of Palenke . . . . . . 9--10
Anonymous A Curious Mushroom Growth . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Wood Paving in Paris . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
Anonymous Block Signals and the Automatic Stop . . 168--168
Anonymous Diverging Again . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous The Effect of Fire on Bridge Cables . . 168--168
Anonymous The New Cunarders . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous Delay in the Construction of Warships 168--168
Anonymous Extraordinary Immigration Figures . . . 168--168
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American and
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Anonymous The Death of Dr. Richard J. Gatling . . 169--169
Anonymous To Detect Fire at Sea . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Amendment to the United States Patent
Statutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous A New Departure in Ship Logs . . . . . . 170--170
Day Allen Willey Self-Winding Clock . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
T. Byard Collins The Action of a Bird's Wing And Its
Bearing on the Problem of Mechanical
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Anonymous Electric Locomotives for Yard and Shop
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Extension of Transit Facilities in New
York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Herbert C. Fyfe The Latest Himalaya-Climbing Expedition 174--176
Randolph I. Geare Venomous Serpents --- IV . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Artificial Horizon . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous A New Acid Chamber for Sulphite Works 177--177
Anonymous Seed-Cleaner for Grain Separators . . . 177--177
Anonymous Mechanical Toy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous New Books, Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 196--199
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Trying to Put a Quart Into a Pint Cup 186--186
Anonymous Enactment of the Amendment of United
States Patent Statutes . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Our Agricultural Colleges . . . . . . . 186--187
Anonymous Action of Gelatine Upon Glass . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous New Electromagnet for Magneto-Optic Work 187--187
H. D. Jones The New Philadelphia Filtration System 188--189
Anonymous The Locke Electric Rock Drill . . . . . 189--189
H. J. Bennet The Gorter Water Tower . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy Between Guadeloupe
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Anonymous A Motor-Driven Ice-Boat . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Mechanical Brick-making . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous On the Curious Case of Regelation . . . 191--191
Anonymous The Cause of Thunder Again . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous The Mills Peruvian Expedition for the
Study of Solar Motion . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Still Another Wireless Telegraphy System 191--191
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous Completion of the Floor of the New East
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Anonymous The Hunter's Point Dry Dock, San
Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Anonymous The Restoration of the Foundations of
the Philæ Temples . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Anonymous Lloyd's Wreck Returns . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous New French Submarine Boat . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous An Armchair Formed By Natural Growth . . 195--195
Walter L. Beasley The Largest Finback Whale . . . . . . . 195--196
Anonymous Miscellaneous Invention . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous New Books, Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 214--217
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous A 75,000 Horse Power Turbine Plant . . . 202--202
Anonymous Permanence of Steel Framework in Tall
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous The Changes in the Croton Dam . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Warship Construction in Private and
Government Shipyards . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous ``Shamrock II'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Anonymous The Second East River Rapid Transit
Tunnel to Brooklyn . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
A. S. Atkinson Spices --- Pure and Otherwise . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous The Montreal Grain Elevator . . . . . . 204--204
A. Frederick Collins Bull's Selective System of Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Day Allen Willey The Pneumatic Tube System of a Modern
Department Store . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Anonymous A Curious Elliptical Bridge . . . . . . 208--208
Charles F. Holder Where Olives Grow . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Walter L. Beasley Curious Jade Carvings from Mexico . . . 211--211
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 232--232
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 232--235
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Anonymous Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty 220--220
Anonymous A Sign of the Times . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Alton D. Adams Rise of Water Power in Electrical Supply 220--220
Anonymous The Latest Edison Storage Battery Patent 221--221
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
John Trowbridge Vessels Made from Quartz and Some of
their Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous A Mechanical Street Cleaner . . . . . . 222--223
Frank C. Perkins Electricity in Modern Mining Drainage
Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Frederick Moore American Railway Slaughters and British
Railway Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous A New Sighting Gear for Naval Guns and
Gunnery Signaling Apparatus . . . . . . 227--228
Anonymous Self-Sealing Moth Bag . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Safety Envelop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Student's Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Safety Car Step . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes: Miscellaneous . . . 248--248
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 248--252
Anonymous The Blood of all Races . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Final Lessons of the German American War
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Vertical Transportation . . . . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous The British Battleship Construction
Programme for 1903 . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Vulcanized Timber in England . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous ``Callitypy'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Anonymous Some Modern Appliances for Life Saving
at Fires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Orrin E. Dunlap Remarkable Diversion of Niagara's Waters 241--242
Waldon Fawcett Electric Track Welding . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Advantages of in-Turning Screws on
Warships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous ``Narragansett'' --- the Largest of Tank
Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Pupin and Jentsch on Trans-Oceanic
Telephony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Further Curie Experiments with Radium 243--243
Anonymous News from the British Antarctic
Expedition --- a New Record . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Volcanic Dust Falls in Georgia . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Selden Patent and the Automobile
Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous A New Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The New Buffalo Harbor Breakwater . . . 244--245
W. F. Watson Photographic Experiment with Nature's
Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Discovery of the Tomb of Thothmes IV . . 246--246
Anonymous Next Week's Special Automobile and
Yachting Number . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Automatic Toy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Safety Heel for Footwear . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Diaphragm Meter and Exerciser . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Women Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Anonymous Railway Improvements . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patent . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 282--287
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 287--292
Anonymous The New Cup Yacht ``Reliance'' . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous The New Measurement Rule of the New York
Yacht Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
Anonymous The Home of the New York Yacht Club . . 255--257
Anonymous A Group of Famous Yacht Models . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous The ``Emerald'' Turbine Yacht . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous The Steam Yacht ``North Star'' . . . . . 258--259
Anonymous A Gasoline Launch for Cruising . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous New Three-Masted Auxiliary Schooner . . 259--260
Anonymous The Launch and Early Trials of
``Shamrock III'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Anonymous The Foreign Automobiles of Prominent
Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Anonymous Some 1903 Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous The Locomobile Gasoline Car . . . . . . 264--265
Anonymous The Columbia Gasoline Tonneau . . . . . 265--266
Anonymous The Latest Types of Motor Bicycles . . . 266--267
Anonymous A Novel Transmission Device for Gasoline
Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Herbert C. Fyfe The Automobile in Warfare . . . . . . . 268--272
Anonymous The Cadillac Gasoline Runabout . . . . . 272--272
Anonymous Automobile Air Cushions . . . . . . . . 272--273
Anonymous A Novel Snow Locomotive . . . . . . . . 274--274
Day Allen Willey A New Sport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
N. Monroe Hopkins The Automobile and its Horse Power: a
Ready Method of Determining the Latter
Experimentally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Anonymous Automobile Novelties . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous A New Detachable Tire . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous A Double Piston Gasoline Motor . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous A Valueless Automobile Steam Engine . . 278--278
Anonymous A Device for Indicating the Speed Rate
of Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous The Lamp That Beats Aladdin's . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous The Roche New Standard Pole Plug . . . . 280--280
Anonymous A Home Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous An Efficient Automobile . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 304--307
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Protect the Third Rail . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous The Lodge--Muirhead Receiver . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Fatal Gun Accident in the Navy . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous The So-Called Dangers of Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Waste of City Water Supply . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Annual Report of the United States Steel
Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--295
Anonymous The Accession of Germany to the
International Convention . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The Reinterment of James Smithson in
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous A Regular Transatlantic Marconi Service 295--295
Anonymous New American Automobile Speed Records 295--295
Anonymous Rubber Vine in Honduras . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Report of the Berlin Zossen Trials . . . 295--295
Herbert C. Fyfe The Pedrail --- a New Type of Road
Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
H. C. Fyfe The Lodge--Muirhead System of Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous The New American-Built Liner
``Minnesota'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous The Most Powerful Express Passenger
Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
A. Frederick Collins A New Electrical Fire Engine . . . . . . 300--301
Anonymous The Jaquet--Droz Androids . . . . . . . 301--302
Anonymous Apparatus for Discharging Bilge Water
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Arthur Inkersley A Century Plant in Bloom . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Shall we have Double-Decked Streets? . . 310--310
Anonymous Collapse of the Great Salt Lake Railroad
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Anonymous Does it Pay to Reconstruct Battleships? 310--310
Anonymous The Extermination of the Mosquito on
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Anonymous Sir William Crookes on Radium . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous ``Egyptianized'' Clay . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Powerful Railroad Wrecking Cranes . . . 312--312
Anonymous Past, Present, and Future of the
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Frank C. Perkins Modern Development of the Steam Turbine 313--314
Anonymous Launch of the ``Reliance'' . . . . . . . 314--315
Anonymous ``Shamrock III.'' Under Sail . . . . . . 316--316
Orrin E. Dunlap ``Siloxicon'' --- a Refractory Furnace
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Herbert C. Fyfe The Telegraphone and the British Post
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Anonymous The Korean Twins . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Car Replacer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Mixing Valve for Explosion-Engines . . . 319--319
Anonymous Transferable Job Bank . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Fuse Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Sideboard-Rod Fastening . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 321--321
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 341--342
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
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Anonymous The Subway Contractor and the Suffering
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Anonymous Failure of the ``Iowa's'' 12-Inch Gun 330--330
Anonymous Tests of Oil Fuel on Locomotives . . . . 330--330
Anonymous English Report on the American Railways 330--330
Anonymous Electrification of the London
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Anonymous The Stanley Airship . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Powerful English Engine for Suburban
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Herbert C. Fyfe Ore Finding by Electricity . . . . . . . 333--334
Marcus Benjamin Alexander Graham Bell . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Experiments in Food Preservatives
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Anonymous Condition of the Work on the Subway . . 338--338
Anonymous Motors for the New York City Subway . . 339--339
Anonymous The Latest Atlantic Liner, ``Kaiser
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 367--367
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Anonymous High Speed on American Railroads . . . . 350--350
Anonymous Acceleration Tests on the Great Eastern
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Anonymous Rapid Development of the Steam Turbine 350--350
Anonymous New Electrical Discoveries . . . . . . . 350--351
Marcus Benjamin Abstracts of Papers Presented at the
National Academy of Sciences . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Rapid Construction of the Battleship
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Anonymous ``Looping the Loop'' in 1846 . . . . . . 352--353
Charles F. Holder Santa Catalina's Wireless Newspaper . . 353--353
Anonymous Dust Storm Observations . . . . . . . . 353--353
Anonymous The ``Reliance'' Under Sail . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous An Automatic Centrifugal Amusement-Way 356--357
Walter L. Beasley Siberian Collection of the Jesup North
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Anonymous The White Blackberry ``Iceberg'' . . . . 358--358
Anonymous A Convenient Game Table . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous A Safety Catch for Elevators . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Daylight Developing Box . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 362--362
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
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Anonymous Railroad Accidents here and Abroad . . . 18--18
Anonymous Proposed Increase of our Navy . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Traffic Congestion in Manhattan . . . . 18--19
Anonymous The German--American War Game . . . . . 19--19
Marcus Benjamin Prof. Ira Remsen, President of the
American Association for the Advancement
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Anonymous The Lebaudy Dirigible Airship . . . . . 20--20
Enos Brown Destruction of Steamship ``Progresso'' 21--21
Anonymous The New British One-Man Folding Range
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Anonymous Opening of the First Section of the
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Day Allen Willey Oil Fires in the southwest . . . . . . . 25--26
J. Carter Beard Are the Senses of the Lower Animals
Superior to ours? . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Walter L. Beasley One of the Largest Trees in the World 27--27
Anonymous Railway Tie and Fastening . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Anonymous We Need Fewer Doctors . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous The Proposed Brooklyn Bridge Terminal
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Anonymous ``Reliance'' and ``Columbia'' . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Our Enormous Exports . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous What to Abolish from Warships . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous The Metric System . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous The First Iron Sailing Vessel . . . . . 370--371
Egbert P. Watson Chimney Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Trade-Marks in the Philippines . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Air Cooling Apparatus . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous A Bell-Buoy Operated by Tide Motor . . . 372--372
Anonymous Dovetailing Machine . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Hamilton Wright Long-Distance High-Tension Transmission
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Anonymous The Crossley Reflecting Telescope and
its New Mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Harold J. Shepstone The Trade in Wild Animals . . . . . . . 376--378
J. Carter Beard Have the Lower Animals Other Senses Than
Ours? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Emile Guarini Artemiev's Electrical Coat of Mail . . . 379--379
Anonymous A New Electrical Steering Gear . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401
Anonymous New Books, Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patent . . . . . . . . . . 404--406
Anonymous The Artistic Element in Bridge Design 388--388
Anonymous American Rapid Transit in London . . . . 388--388
Anonymous The New Cunarders . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Flies as Carriers of Bacteria . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous British Workmen on American Industry . . 388--389
Earl Mayo Electric Power Plant below Mount Rainier 389--389
Anonymous Carrier Pigeons for the German Navy . . 389--389
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous A New Soda-Water Machine . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous An Electric Ore-Reducing Apparatus . . . 390--390
Anonymous A Simple Kerosene Engine . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Motor Coaches for British Railroads . . 391--392
W. Frank M'clure The Coal Industry of Pennsylvania . . . 392--393
T. Byard Collins Wireless Telephonic Communication
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Anonymous A Land Boat for Armory Use . . . . . . . 395--396
Emile Guarini Guilleminot High-Tension and
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Useful Attachment For Rain-Water Leaders 397--397
Anonymous Heater Attachment for Lamps and Gas
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Anonymous Gage for Railway Car Axles . . . . . . . 397--398
Anonymous Rail Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Centrifugal Separator . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 399--400
Anonymous Popular Steam Traps . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
Anonymous Valuable Books! . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous The War Department and New York City
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Anonymous Railway Horrors Vs. the ``Horrors of
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Anonymous Boiler Rivet Heads . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous An American Officer's View of German
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Herbert C. Fyfe The Ivel Agricultural Motor . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous New Automatic Fender and Wheel Guard . . 410--411
Anonymous The Problem of the Great Croton Dam ---
New York City Water Supply . . . . . . . 411--412
Anonymous First Race of the Cup Defender
``Reliance'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Jacques Boyer Butterfly Farms in France . . . . . . . 415--416
Anonymous A Man who was Struck by Lightning and
Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Manure Spreader . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
Anonymous Folding Top for Vehicles . . . . . . . . 417--417
Anonymous Elevating Truck . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
Anonymous An Opera-Glass Condiment Holder . . . . 417--417
Anonymous Water Regulator for Steam Boilers . . . 417--417
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--434
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 435--436
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary
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Anonymous Remarkable Efficiency of Elevated
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Anonymous Cost of High-Speed Steamship Travel . . 424--424
Anonymous The Abuse of a Noble Sport . . . . . . . 424--425
Anonymous Prof. Goodspeed on Secondary Radiation
Induced by X-Rays . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425
Anonymous Alkali Manufacture by Electricity from
Natural Salts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425
Anonymous The Ostergren Fuel Oil Engine . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous An Improved Type of Swage Block . . . . 427--427
Anonymous A Method of Making Glass Models of Mines 427--427
Day Allen Willey The ``Soo'' Ship Canal System --- the
Fiftieth Anniversary of its Commencement 427--429
Anonymous A New Apparatus for Determining the
Resistance of Road Vehicles to Traction 430--431
Anonymous Scientific Poultry Raising . . . . . . . 431--432
Anonymous The New Springfield Magazine Rifle . . . 432--432
Anonymous Ruhmer's System of Light-Telephony . . . 433--433
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 455--456
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 456--457
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Mosely on American Competition . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous The High-Speed Turbine as an Air
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Anonymous A New Niagara Power Canal . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Scientific Expedition to the Bahama
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Anonymous On a Singular Radiation Phenomenon . . . 444--445
Anonymous Observation War Kites . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Guy E. Mitchell Tomato Culture in the South . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous A Kite Competition . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Waldon Fawcett A Novel Automobile Lawn Mower . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous A New and Sanitary Process of Pouring
Brass in Casting . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Anonymous New Instruments for Enabling the Deaf to
Hear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Fred T. Jane A Comparison of the German Battleship
``Wettin'' with the ``Maine'' . . . . . 448--449
Anonymous The New Motor Chair . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous A Daring Feat in the Amusement Line . . 450--451
Walter L. Beasley Evolution of the Horse . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Anonymous New Prepayment Meter . . . . . . . . . . 453--453
Anonymous A Durable Saw-Tightener . . . . . . . . 453--453
Anonymous Cage and Cable Release . . . . . . . . . 453--453
Anonymous Sugar Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Anonymous A Peculiar Toy Hoop . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Rail Fastening . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous A Vest Pocket Punching Bag . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous An Improved Oil Burner . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 456--456
Gardner D. Hiscox Gas Gasoline and Oil Engines . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 474--477
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 476--476
Anonymous The Merchants' Association and the
Jerome Park Reservoir . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Chicago Drainage Canal and the City of
St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous The Oldest Map of Rome . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Anonymous A Mud-Puddle Commune; or, the Beginnings
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Anonymous Highest Wind Record . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Failure of the Monolith Lathe . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Orange Culture in California . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous French Express Engine for an English
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H. C. Fyfe The First Cross-Channel Turbine Steamer 467--468
Anonymous A Portable Oscillograph for Alternating
Currents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
W. Frank M'Clure Gigantic Ore-Handling Machinery . . . . 469--469
Anonymous The Atlantic Ocean and the `America' Cup 470--470
Anonymous The Paris--Madrid Automobile Race . . . 470--472
J. W. Kime Some Experiments with Actinic Light . . 472--473
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--481
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--490
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 492--494
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 492--492
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--497
Anonymous The Railroads and the new East River
Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous Painting by the Acre . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous Railroad Ties and Our Forest Supply . . 480--480
Anonymous The new 13,000-Ton Battleships . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous ``Shamrock III'' in Drydock . . . . . . 480--481
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 481--481
Anonymous Dumping Car With Convenient Lock and
Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous German Tests of the Pupin System of
Longdistance Telephony . . . . . . . . . 482--483
George J. Jones A Steel Caboose and Repair Car . . . . . 483--483
Frank C. Perkins Electric Haulage on Canals . . . . . . . 483--485
Anonymous A Safety Magazine Torpedo Cane . . . . . 485--485
Anonymous Anchor with Yielding Chain Connection 485--485
A. Gradenwitz The ``Telephot,'' a Novel Apparatus for
Photographing at Great Distances . . . . 486--486
Herbert C. Fyfe Coaling Warships at Sea . . . . . . . . 486--488
Anonymous Hailstones Larger Than Hens' Eggs . . . 488--488
Charles F. Holder Interesting Facts About Pelicans . . . . 489--489
W. T. Bryan A Battle Between Two Deadly Snakes . . . 489--489
Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Supplement
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Anonymous Valuable Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Practical Pointers For Patentees . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 46--47
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Railroad Building in 1902 . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous New Ships for the Navy . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reconstruction of the Erie Canal . . . . 36--36
Anonymous The Coal Fields of Natal . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Sir Harry Johnston's Explorations in
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Anonymous The Raising of a Big Railway Bridge . . 37--38
Anonymous European Fire Engines . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous The Paris Automobile Show . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Grand Central Station Improvements and
Connection with Rapid Transit Subway . . 39--40
Marcus Benjamin American Association for the Advancement
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Anonymous Leading Types of American Racing
Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Anonymous Reconstruction of the Steamship ``New
York'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Portable Power Device for Farm Work . . 45--46
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy and the ``St.
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Anonymous Magnitude of Commerce on the Lakes . . . 54--54
Anonymous New Methods of Tunneling . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous A Dozen New Vessels for the Shipping
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Anonymous The Humors of Railroading . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Subway Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Colonists for our New Public Lands . . . 54--55
Anonymous Morse's Old Diary and its Prophecy . . . 55--55
Anonymous Wireless Messages to a Moving Train . . 55--55
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Improved Paper File . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
Anonymous A New Method of Transplanting Large
Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
Anonymous Belt Stretcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
W. E. Partridge An Automobile Street Car . . . . . . . . 57--58
George Wharton James Indian Physiognomies . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Anonymous An Improved Vaporizer for Gasoline
Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous How a Telescope was made at the Jesuit
College, Montreal . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
I. W. Davies Railroad Development in Cuba . . . . . . 61--63
M. C. Frederick Queer Caprice of California Woodpeckers 63--63
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 64--64
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Weight and Velocity in Heavy Guns . . . 72--72
Anonymous The American Automobile . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Abram Stevens Hewitt . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous The Recent Berliner Transmitter Patent
Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Test of the New 16-Inch Gun . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous A New Derrick or ``Grasshopper''
Elevator for Unloading Grain from
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Anonymous The Landing of the Honolulu End of the
Pacific Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Anonymous The Third Annual Automobile Show . . . . 80--80
Anonymous The Passing of the Hall of Records . . . 81--82
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous The Signing of the Panama Canal Treaty 90--90
Anonymous Explosion of a 12-Inch Gun at Sandy Hook 90--90
Anonymous Shipbuilding During 1902 . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous ``America'' Cup Contest . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous The Diseases of Dust . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Some Afterthoughts on the Automobile
Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Structural Details of the Edison Storage
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Enos Brown Oil Fuel on the Steamship ``Mariposa'' 92--92
Orrin E. Dunlap The Ice Conditions of Niagara River . . 93--93
Anonymous An Impression of Marconi . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous An Operative Engine the Size of a Dime 94--94
Anonymous The Cooper Hewitt Lamp and Static
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Anonymous Cows Killed in Thunderstorm . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous A New Slicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous A New Pattern for Overalls . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 99--100
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Anonymous Mr. Westinghouse on American Methods in
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Anonymous A Novel Aerial Toy Yacht . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous The Krebs Automatic Carbureter for
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Anonymous An Old Double-Barreled Cannon . . . . . 113--113
W. Frank M'Clure The Sandstone Quarries of Ohio . . . . . 113--114
Anonymous A New Oil Burner . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Ventilator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous A Cave used as a Jail . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous Transporting Lumber across Deep Gorges 117--117
Randolph I. Geare Venomous Serpents --- I . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 121--121
Jack St. Armont South America and Her Treasures . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous An 18,000 Ton Battleship . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous The New Coke Industry . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Proposed Repairs to the East River
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Anonymous A Harvard Grant from the Carnegie
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H. M. Gleason The Steam Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous The Ozone Waterworks at Wiesbaden and
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Anonymous The New Chilian Battleship ``Libertad'' 133--134
Anonymous The Spontaneous Bending of Marble . . . 134--134
M. Hopkins Recording Telegraph for Amateurs . . . . 136--136
Randolph I. Geare Venomous Snakes --- II . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous New York's Steel Roadway . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous A Curious Case of Regelation . . . . . . 138--138
Enos Brown The Orange in Northern California . . . 138--139
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 140--140
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 161--164
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Rapid and Slow Construction of Public
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Anonymous The Cooper Hewitt Interrupter . . . . . 148--148
C. W. Kanolt Radium-Its Extraordinary Properties . . 149--149
Anonymous Proposed Subway and Elevated Extension
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Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous New Method for Cutting Asphalt Pavement 150--150
Anonymous The Production of Low Temperatures . . . 150--150
Anonymous The Injured Hull of the United States
Cruiser ``Brooklyn'' . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous The Construction of the Asyut Dam; Nile
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Device for Preventing the Switching of
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Anonymous Two Simple Fastening Devices . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Rein Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous A New Insulating Material . . . . . . . 158--159
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 15--15
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Universities in the United States and
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Anonymous The Alderman and the Engineer . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The New Army Rifle . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The Growth of our Foreign Commerce . . . 4--4
Anonymous A Ship Canal through Scotland . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Destroying the Water Hyacinth by a New
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Anonymous Marconi in Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous An Electric Tramway Operated upon the
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Anonymous The Union Engineering Building . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 5--5
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Anonymous Alexander Melville Clark . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Telechirograph --- a New Facsimile
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Anonymous How Large Steamers are Divided and Taken
through the Canadian Canal . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Production of Fluorine in Moissan's
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Anonymous How to Make a Paper Cane . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous American Cars to Compete in the
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Anonymous The Great Goose Creek Dam for the Denver
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Anonymous Pullman Cars in a Railroad Wreck . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Vaporizer for Internal Combustion
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Anonymous A Simple Chimney Flue Cleaner . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Engine for Motor Bicycles . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 15--15
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous The Triumph of the Scow . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous ``Scientific Hooliganism'' Again . . . . 162--162
Anonymous The Great Subway Power Plant . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Electricity on the Miami and Erie Canal 162--163
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Turbine Yachts at the International
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Anonymous Manufacture of Carbonated Mineral Waters 165--166
Anonymous Guarini's Wireless Fire Alarm Apparatus 166--166
Anonymous How the Earth's Movements are Noted . . 167--167
Anonymous The ``Shamrock''--``Reliance'' Races of
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Frederick A. Talbot The Spencer Airship For 1903 . . . . . . 169--170
S. W. Balch A New Record in Horse Trotting . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous The Largest Transformer in the World . . 171--171
Anonymous Kunzite --- a New Gem . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Charles E. Hutchinson A Bolas-Throwing Spider . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Variable Speed Gear for Motor-Driven
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Anonymous Wave Motor for Pumping Ships . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Anonymous Marconi Wireless . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Anonymous Another Great Hydraulic-Electric Power
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Anonymous The Last of a Famous Liner . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Is Yacht Designing an Exact Science . . 182--182
Anonymous Limits of Electric Traction with Direct
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Anonymous The Agreement between the British
Government and the Cunard and Morgan
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Anonymous More Information about the Prize for a
Dust-Arresting Respirator . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Electro-Telethermometer of Juan Vila
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Anonymous English Artillery Trophies at Mont St.
Michel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
A. Gradenwitz A Novel Measuring Machine . . . . . . . 184--184
A. Bosch Photography in Colors --- The Three
Color Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Walter H. Main Spier Falls Dam and Power Plant . . . . 186--187
Emile Guarini Electricity as an Aid to Agriculture ---
a Description of Two Model Electrical
Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Randolph I. Geare Tattooing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Charles Alma Byers Elephant Rock and Other Bowlders . . . . 191--191
L. Lodian ``Coal-Porcelain'' . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Great Economy of the Motor Cycle . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Eye-Bar Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Intermediate Batteries on Battleships 198--198
Anonymous Distribution of Trade at the Ports of
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Anonymous The Cause and Cure of Hay Fever . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Alcohol as an Illuminant . . . . . . . . 198--198
Alton D. Adams Expansion of Electric Railways in
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous A Floating Piston . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous A Non-Freezing Valve . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
H. D. Jones Some Interesting Models . . . . . . . . 200--201
W. Frank M'Clure The Automobile as a Plow Horse . . . . . 201--201
Charles Richard Dodge The Pulque and Mescal of Mexico . . . . 201--202
Anonymous Blackwell's Island Bridge . . . . . . . 202--203
Anonymous Experiments with Motor-Driven Aeroplanes 204--204
C. F. Holder A Singular Profession . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Anonymous A Ship Brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Emile Guarini The Seas of Fog . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Life is Longer under Modern Conditions 214--214
Anonymous Elevated and Trolley Tracks on the New
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Anonymous Steam Turbine for Ocean Liners . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous Merchants' Association on City Transit 214--214
Anonymous Torpedo Experiments with the
``Belleisle'' by the British Admiralty 214--215
V. E. Cline Eucalypts and the World's Fuel . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous A Novel Spiral Bridge . . . . . . . . . 216--216
Anonymous The Berliner Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . 216--216
Anonymous Revolving Lanterns for Lighthouses . . . 217--218
Anonymous The Bessemer Copper Process . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous The Hyposcope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Communication with Trains by Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Charles C. Willoughby Piedras Negras, a Newly Discovered
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Jacob Backes Callitypy --- a New Way of Using the
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Anonymous A Trick with the Telephone . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Improved Rail Joint . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Combined Carpet Stretcher and Tacker . . 223--223
Anonymous Fastening Device for Vent Pipes . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 227--227
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 250--250
Anonymous The Future Water Supply of New York City 234--234
Anonymous Pipe Galleries vs. Upturned Streets . . 234--234
Anonymous At Last, the Side-Door Passenger Car . . 234--234
Golfrey L. Carden The 60,000 Horsepower Plant at the
World's Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
Anonymous The Sievert Process of Mechanical Glass
Blowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous London's Gasoline-Propelled Cabs . . . . 237--237
Anonymous The New Telegraphone . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Frank C. Perkins European Floating and Dock Cranes . . . 239--239
Anonymous Moving the Columns of St. John the
Divine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Waldon Fawcett Latest Progress in Good Roads
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous A Nearly Total Eclipse of the Moon
Observed by Means of Photoelectric
Selenium Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous Some Curious Oyster Growths . . . . . . 243--243
George J. Jones Stove with an Adjustable Firebox . . . . 244--245
Anonymous Illuminated Cross for Church Towers . . 245--245
Anonymous Device for Preventing Waste of Water . . 245--245
Anonymous Folding Step for Vestibule Cars . . . . 245--245
Anonymous A Low-Priced Typewriter . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous The Double-Deck Car for Rapid Transit 254--254
Anonymous Keeping the Health of a City . . . . . . 254--255
James Weir Certain Curious Effects of the Violet
Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Fruit and Nuts as Food . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Emile Guarini The Flight of Birds Mechanically Studied 256--257
Anonymous The Barney Brick Conveyer . . . . . . . 257--258
A Bosch The Petroleum Districts and
Mud-Volcanoes of Java . . . . . . . . . 259--259
A. W. Fullerton The Largest Hydraulic Canal Locks in the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous An Ingenious Sculpturing Machine . . . . 260--262
Anonymous A New Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Charles F. Holder Indian Granaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous One Hundred and Twenty-Five Miles an
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Anonymous Dangers in Irrigation . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous India Rubber and Its Substitutes . . . . 270--270
Anonymous News from the Ziegler Expedition . . . . 270--270
Anonymous New Automobile Track Records . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous First Day's Run of the New
York--Pittsburgh Automobile Endurance
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Queen Victoria's Ivory Chair of State 271--271
Anonymous Battleship ``Missouri's'' Builders'
Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous The Failure of Langley's Aerodrome . . . 272--272
Anonymous Electric Heater . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Anonymous Machine for Drying Cocoa Beans . . . . . 273--273
Anonymous The Kamm Typewriter for Use with
Wireless Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
Anonymous The Latest Battleships for the United
States Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Chimney Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous The Sub-Target Gun Machine . . . . . . . 276--276
Waldon Fawcett The Transportation of Lumber . . . . . . 276--278
Anonymous An Early Road Locomotive . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous A Children's School Farm in the Heart of
a Great City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous The Latest Applications of the Gasoline
Automobile Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 296--297
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous The Economy of Electric Traction . . . . 286--286
Anonymous The Storage Reservoir as a Preventive of
Floods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous The First Turbine Atlantic Liner . . . . 286--286
Anonymous The Telephone and the Railway . . . . . 286--287
Anonymous The British Quest for an Eighteenpenny
Safety Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous New German Red Phosphorus Match . . . . 287--287
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Aluminium in Flowering Plants . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Sun Spots Photographed . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous A Flooded Track . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Construction of the Railroad Across Salt
Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Day Allen Willey Sanitary House Cleaning . . . . . . . . 289--290
Frederick Moore Work of the Fisheries Commission . . . . 290--291
Anonymous The Disposal of New York's Refuse . . . 292--294
Anonymous A Heavy Electric Locomotive . . . . . . 294--294
Walter L. Beasley Remarkable Ceremonial Garments . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 313--314
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous A Transatlantic Clipper Service . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Wind Resistance in High-Speed Train
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Prehistoric Drawings of Animals, Etc.,
in the Cave of Altamira, Spain . . . . . 302--303
Anonymous The Ganz System of Electric Canal
Haulage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous ``Home Mechanics for Amateurs'' . . . . 303--303
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Another ``Largest Locomotive'' . . . . . 304--304
R. A. Harris A Machine for Facilitating the Analysis
of Curves Representing Periodic
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Anonymous Termination of the New York--Pittsburgh
Automobile Endurance Test . . . . . . . 305--307
Anonymous Harlem River Tunnel of the Rapid Transit
Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Day Allen Willey Baltimore's System of Garbage Disposal 308--308
Anonymous The Torpedo-Boat Destroyer ``Perry'' . . 309--309
Anonymous The Long-Distance Record Run of an
American Electric Automobile . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Sun Spots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous A New Type of Hollow Grate-Bar . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 314--314
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous The New Cunarders . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Steel-Concrete Construction . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous New Field Gun for the British Army . . . 322--322
Anonymous The Death of Prof. R. H. Thurston . . . 323--323
Anonymous Some Powerful English Express
Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous The Handling of Locomotives . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Steltje's Type-Printing Telegraph . . . 325--325
Anonymous A Portable Pneumatic Tool Outfit for
Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Emile Guarini Recent Observations of the Planet
Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Arthur Inkersley Dr. Greth's Airship . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous A California Onion-Seed Farm . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous The new Santos-Dumont Airship . . . . . 329--329
Anonymous A House that Turns with the Sun . . . . 330--330
Harold J. Shepstone Some New Hybrids . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 32--33
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Destruction of City Refuse . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Steam Turbine for Ocean Service . . 22--22
Anonymous Growth of our Railroad System . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Progress of the Uganda Railroad . . . . 22--23
Crittenden Marriott Nickel-Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous A Prize Offered for a Respirator . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The New Calais--Dover Turbine Steamer 24--24
Anonymous The New Santos-Dumont Airships . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous A Mechanical Sheep-Shearer . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous The Water-Absorbing Properties of Plants 26--26
Shirl Herr An Instrument for Detecting Delicate
Acoustic Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Philadelphia's High-Pressure Fire Pipe
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Anonymous A 6,000-Ton Floating Depositing Pontoon
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Anonymous Some of Our Common Snakes --- II . . . . 372--372
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Anonymous Reporting by Electrophone . . . . . . . 403--403
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Anonymous The First British Steam Railway to Adopt
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Anonymous Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, F.R.S. . . . . 482--483
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Anonymous A Successful Experiment with a
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Anonymous Auto Chairs for the St. Louis Fair . . . 81--81
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Anonymous The Projections of the Planet Mars . . . 82--83
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Anonymous Marconi Wireless Telegraph Relics . . . 100--100
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Anonymous A Fountain Painting Apparatus . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous A Novel Picture Exhibitor . . . . . . . 103--103
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Anonymous Present Status of American Shipbuilding 115--115
Anonymous The Ninth International Geological
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Anonymous A New Gold District . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 115--115
F. N. Massa An Instrument for Describing
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Emile Guarini An Audible and Visible Railway Signal
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William Gilbert Irwin Waterway Improvement on the Ohio . . . . 117--118
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Anonymous An Automatic Device for Replacing
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Anonymous The New Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Fire Peril on Underground Railroads . . 130--130
Anonymous Foreign Gas Engines at the World's Fair 130--131
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Anonymous N-Rays Discovered by M. Blondlot . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Langley's Aerodrome Experiments . . . . 131--131
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Anonymous The Beaver as a Dam-Builder . . . . . . 133--134
Mary Proctor Borelly's Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
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Anonymous The Making of a Lead Pencil . . . . . . 137--137
Day Allen Willey Alfalfa on Western Cattle Ranges . . . . 138--138
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 140--140
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Anonymous Colombia and the Panama Canal . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous A Problem for the Air-Ship Builder . . . 146--146
Anonymous Direct Current vs. Induction Motor for
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Harold Bolce The Trap-Lantern as an Insect
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Horace C. Hovey Balloon Measurements of Mammoth Cave's
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Anonymous Concrete House Building . . . . . . . . 148--149
Anonymous Automatic Paper-Feeders for Printing
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Anonymous Improved Breech Mechanism for Heavy Guns 154--154
Anonymous Light Motor for a St. Louis Contest
Airship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Machine for Grooming and Shampooing
Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Improved Valve Mechanism . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Cable Grip or Clutch Device . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 156--156
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Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
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Anonymous The Durban Floating Dock and Workshop 7--8
Anonymous An Albino Deer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Charles F. Holder Meteorites and their Collectors . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Reconstruction of the Lackawanna Tracks
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Anonymous Smoke Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Metallic Pipe Coupling . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous A Long-Maned Horse . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Improved Dumping Car . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 203--207
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous The High-Speed Motor-Boat Model . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Raising Carrier Pigeons . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous On the Working of Combined Coherers . . 190--191
Archibald S. Hurd Fleets in the Far East --- an English
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Rotary Valve for Sawmills . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous The Adam--Boudin Globular Boat . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Valve for Control of Hydraulic Elevators 192--192
Anonymous The Largest Photograph in the World . . 193--194
Anonymous Samuel Pierpont Langley . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous The Modern Torpedo . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
T. E. R. Phillips Jupiter and his Surface Currents . . . . 197--197
Anonymous Russia's Losses in the First Week of the
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Anonymous The ``Scooter'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 220--223
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Anonymous Examination of the Emanations Given off
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Anonymous A Year's Battleships in England . . . . 211--211
Anonymous The Tygard Reciprocating-Cylinder
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Anonymous The Development of the High-Speed Launch
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Anonymous The Japanese Destroyers . . . . . . . . 214--215
Anonymous Two Interesting Animals at the New York
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Anonymous Official Test of the Lake Submarine Boat
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 239--239
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Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 239--240
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Anonymous Direct-Current Traction on the New York
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Anonymous De Glehn Compound for the Great Western
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Anonymous New Pruning Shears . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous An Improved Grain Valve . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Steam Turbine of 11,000 Horse-Power . . 229--230
Emile Guarini Experiments upon the Pressure of Wind at
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Anonymous Thawing Out Frozen Water Pipes by
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Anonymous Electricity in the Household . . . . . . 232--232
Anonymous Our Knowledge of the Moon . . . . . . . 232--234
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 257--257
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 258--263
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous Salt-Water Mains for Fire Protection . . 246--246
Anonymous Future Extension of the Subway System 246--246
Anonymous A Floral Map of the United States at the
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Anonymous Borings on a Coral Reef . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous The United States in 1903 . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Concrete Piling . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous A Single-Cylinder, Reversible,
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Anonymous A New Gasoline Motor for Airships . . . 249--249
Anonymous A New System of Rapid Telegraphy . . . . 249--250
Anonymous The New Vickers--Maxim 9.2-Inch
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Anonymous The Abruzzi Polar Expedition --- I . . . 252--252
Anonymous The Hudson River Tunnel . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Combination Lock for Umbrellas . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Harrow Tooth and Simple Fastening Device 255--255
Anonymous Valve Mechanism for Locomotives . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Bending Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Improved Windmill . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Mail Box for Rural Free Delivery Routes 256--256
Anonymous Ore-Sampling Machine . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 257--257
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 279--283
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Anonymous The Blindness of the Submarine . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous High-Explosive Projectiles . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Dispersion and Wave Length of N-Rays . . 266--267
Anonymous High-Speed Steam Railway Service . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous The Perspectartigraph --- a Novel
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Anonymous The Battleship ``Mikasa'' in Action . . 270--270
Anonymous The Abruzzi Polar Expedition --- II . . 272--272
Anonymous Excavations in the Roman Forum . . . . . 273--273
Anonymous Accident to the Battleship ``Illinois'' 274--274
Day Allen Willey Raising Ostriches in the United States 275--275
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous That Fire Peril Again . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous The Blocking of the Port Arthur Entrance 286--286
Anonymous Departure of the Panama Canal Commission 286--286
Anonymous Steel Roads for Country Districts . . . 286--286
Anonymous Cast-Iron Columns in the Darlington
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Automatic Ore Loader . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Pulling Strength of Men and Animals . . 289--290
Anonymous New Electrolytic Phenomenon . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Method of Timing Photographic Shutters 291--291
Anonymous Malting and Brewing Conducted on
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Anonymous Russia's Last Hope on the Sea . . . . . 293--294
Anonymous An Interesting Balancing Feat . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Improved Calipers . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Windmill with Reversing Attachment . . . 295--295
Anonymous Convenient Attachment for Bird Cages . . 295--295
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 316--319
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Turbine Engines for the New Cunarders 306--306
Anonymous The Growth of our Street Railway Systems 306--306
Anonymous A Barrage on the River Thames . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Action of Light upon the Formation of
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A. C. Maury Light in Crystals . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Military Aspects of the Trans-Siberian
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Anonymous Resilient Wheel for Vehicles . . . . . . 310--310
A. Steens The Cylindrical Movable Dams at
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Anonymous The Beedle Airship . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Emile Guarini A Portable Oxygen-Inhaling Apparatus . . 314--314
Anonymous A Peculiar Blaze in the New York Subway 315--315
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 337--337
Anonymous The Battleship ``Missouri'' Disaster . . 322--322
Anonymous The Advantages and Drawbacks of Turbines
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Anonymous Experiments Made at the Laboratory in
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M. H. H. Macartney The Caves and Dene-Holes at Chiselhurst 323--323
Anonymous New Process of Manufacturing Ozone . . . 323--323
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Driving a Test Pile for the Hudson River
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Anonymous New Electric Chronometer for Timing
Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Frank C. Perkins A New English Aluminium Welding Machine 325--326
Daniel F. Comstock An Interesting Paradox . . . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous The Russian Reverse at Port Arthur . . . 327--327
Helen Lukens Jones The Greatest of Pipe Organs . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous The Submarine Mine . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Concrete Railway Bridges . . . . . . . . 331--331
W. G. Fitz Gerald A Fire Escape for Tourists and Travelers 332--332
Emile Guarini A Novel Italian Unicycle . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 352--355
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 353--353
Anonymous The Aqueduct Commissioners and the New
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Anonymous Longitudinal Bulkheads and Battleship
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Anonymous The Preparation of Pure Argon . . . . . 342--343
Garrett P. Serviss, Jr. Soaring Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous A German High-Speed Locomotive . . . . . 344--344
W. Frank M'clure The ``Wolvin,'' the Largest Fresh-Water
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Anonymous Two Home Made Wireless Telegraph
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Anonymous The Manufacture of Incised, or Cut Glass 348--350
Anonymous The Automobile and Motor-Boat Races at
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 351--351
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 370--372
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 376--379
Anonymous Commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase 358--358
Anonymous Battleship or Torpedo Boat . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Some Interesting Facts about the
Development of the Edison Storage
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Anonymous Action of Radium on Metals . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Experiments with Three-Phase Electric
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Anonymous The Russian Ice-Breaker ``Ermack'' . . . 360--360
Anonymous High-Velocity 6-Inch Wire-Wound Gun for
the United States Army . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous Growth of our Navy . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Samuel Williams The Louisiana Purchase Exposition ---
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Claude H. Wetmore The Largest Clock in the World . . . . . 365--366
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous A New Electric Clock . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Strainer for Locomotives . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous The Hydraulic Letter Press . . . . . . . 367--368
Anonymous A Novel Mail-Bag Catcher . . . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous A New Wrench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous A Combined Third-Rail Contact Shoe and
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous A Call for Stronger Passenger Cars . . . 22--22
Anonymous Can the Theater Fire be Prevented? . . . 22--22
Anonymous A New Study of Bird Life . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous The Death of Jeremiah M. Allen . . . . . 23--23
H. C. Fyfe The New British Shipbuilding Programme 23--23
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
W. Frank M'clure A Floating Theater . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Emile Guarini A New Chloroforming Apparatus . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous Electricity on the Miami and Erie Canal 25--26
Anonymous The Oldest Working Locomotive in the
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Anonymous The Manufacture of Automobiles . . . . . 29--30
Charles F. Holder Deep-Sea Sunfish . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
V. Burti How a Python Eats . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 391--392
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 392--395
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Electric Traction Tests at the Worlds
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Anonymous Turbine Ocean Steamers . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous New System of Tunnel Construction . . . 382--382
Anonymous Our Available Iron-Ore Supply . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous On Some Novel N-Ray Phenomena . . . . . 382--383
M. Metzenbaum Induced Radio-Activity and Aluminium . . 383--383
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Edward J. Forster New Method of Inflating Balloons in War
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Anonymous The Challenging Yacht ``Ingomar'' . . . 385--385
Anonymous Automatic Match Lighter Operated by
Alarm Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
J. Fid Tristan An Improved Michaud Apparatus . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous The Torpedo Boat in Modern Warfare . . . 387--387
Walter L. Beasley Ruins of the Ancient Inca Empire . . . . 388--390
Anonymous The Small Arms of the Russian and
Japanese Armies . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--391
Anonymous New York's Spring Automobile Parade . . 391--391
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 411--415
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Rear Collisions on City Rapid Transit
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Economy of Narrow-Gage Railroads . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Results of the German Antarctic
Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous The Catalpa Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Robertus Love Illumination of the Worlds Fair . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Death of Henry M. Stanley . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous The Distillation of Sea Water at Suakim 400--400
Anonymous The Russian Army and Its Guns . . . . . 400--402
Anonymous The Manufacture of Mens Clothing on a
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Anonymous Interesting Experiments to Determine the
Correct Lines for Gasoline Motor Boats 406--407
William G. Fitz-Gerald Life-Saving Apparatus in British Schools 407--407
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous New Riveter and Brace . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Express Call for Large Office Buildings 408--408
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 427--428
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 428--431
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Increasing Railroad Fatalities . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous The Japanese Disaster at Port Arthur . . 418--418
Fred T. Jane Russian Naval Guns . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419
Herbert W. Horwill The Mother of Exhibitions . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Transporter Bridge across the Manchester
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Anonymous A Bad Case of Warped Railroad Track . . 421--421
Emile Guarini The Cyclograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
George F. Kunz Facsimile of Dr. Joseph Priestley's
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Anonymous An Electrically-Operated Clock . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous The Casting of the Williamsburg Bridge
Entablatures --- a Notable Technical
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Anonymous The Japanese Army and Its Guns . . . . . 425--426
Anonymous Capt. Doenvig's Life-Saving Globe . . . 426--426
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 427--427
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 446--447
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 447--451
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous The N-Rays: Are They Real or Illusory? 434--434
Anonymous Submarine Mines on the High Seas . . . . 434--434
Anonymous A World's Congress of Academies . . . . 434--435
Anonymous Charles H. Haswell's Ninety-Fifth
Birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Frank C. Perkins Belgian and American Electric Lifting
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Anonymous Electrically-Operated Versus
Steam-Driven Mine Hoists . . . . . . . . 437--437
Anonymous The Japanese Naval Disasters . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous New form of Radiation . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Electrochemical Phonograph . . . . . . . 438--438
W. Frank M'clure The Manufacture of Straw Hats . . . . . 440--441
H. A. Crafts The Petroleum Reservoirs of California 441--441
Anonymous An Arcade for New York City . . . . . . 442--442
Anonymous Wreck of the Russian Cruiser ``Bogatyr'' 442--442
Anonymous Photography of Jupiter's Satellites . . 443--443
Alfred Gradenwitz The Pielock Superheater System . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Rock Drill Attachment . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous A Novel Fly-Catcher . . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Improved Railway Chair . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Compensating Device for Rope Tramways 444--445
Anonymous A Tension Regulator for Overhead Cables 445--445
Anonymous A Clothing Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Device for Distributing Noxious Fumes 445--445
Anonymous An Improved Portable Tent . . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 467--471
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Growth of American Merchant Marine . . . 454--454
Anonymous Electricity in Korea and Japan . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous The Polar Regions . . . . . . . . . . . 454--455
Anonymous Calcium Carbide and Its Commercial
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous The First American Auto-Boat Contest . . 456--456
Anonymous The British Naval School for the
Training of Divers . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous Simultaneous Telegraphing and
Telephoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Harry Dillon Jones An American Buddhist Temple . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Completing the Rapid Transit Subway . . 461--462
Anonymous Proposed Lighthouse for Cape Hatteras
Diamond Shoal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Improved Railway Substructure . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous A New Tennis Racket . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Runner Attachment for Bicycles . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Pipe or Bar Cutter . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Vehicle Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Machine for Moistening Gummed Paper
Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 484--484
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 484--487
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous Military and Strategical Valve of Oil
Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Surface Indications of Oil . . . . . . . 474--474
R. W. McNeely Fine Performance of the Battleship
``Kentucky'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--475
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous The Dredger ``Marquess'' . . . . . . . . 476--476
Emile Guarini The Berthier Actino-Electric Transformer 476--476
Anonymous New Apparatus for Photographing the
Background of the Eye . . . . . . . . . 477--477
Anonymous Automatic Control of Locomotives . . . . 477--478
Anonymous Mail Box for Rural Delivery Service . . 478--478
Anonymous Malting and Brewing Conducted on
Scientific Principles --- II Brewing . . 480--481
Anonymous Relics of the Spanish Armada . . . . . . 482--483
Anonymous A Sectional Bookcase . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 501--501
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 501--501
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 501--507
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Edison and the Patent Office . . . . . . 490--490
Anonymous Wind-Driven Generators for Farming . . . 490--490
Anonymous Wood Alcohol for Industrial Purposes . . 490--491
Anonymous The International Automobile Race . . . 491--491
Anonymous M. Curie's Work on Radium Emanations
from Mineral Springs . . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Cameos and Their History . . . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Non Skidding Tires and Protective Bands
for Use on the Wheels of Automobiles . . 492--492
Charles R. King Successful Italian Express Compound
Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--493
Anonymous Looping the Double Loop . . . . . . . . 493--493
Alfred Gradenwitz The Autoplastic Photographic Process of
Producing Sculptural Portraits . . . . . 493--494
C. M. Ginther The Transformation of the Grand Cañon
into a National Park . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
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Anonymous The Second Motor-Boat Race . . . . . . . 497--497
Anonymous The Boston Automobile Race . . . . . . . 498--498
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Anonymous The Pennsylvania Tunnel at New York City 42--42
Anonymous The Barton 150-Horsepower Airship's
Forth-Coming Trial Trip . . . . . . . . 44--46
Walter L. Beasley Remarkable Discoveries by Bandelier of
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A. R. M. Spaid A Harmless Reptile . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
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Anonymous The Navies of Russia and Japan Compared 58--58
Anonymous Discovery of Dr. Danysz, of Pasteur
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Carl Lautenschlaeger The Theatre Fire and Its Prevention in
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
W. Frank M'clure A Great Mammoth's Tooth . . . . . . . . 60--60
George J. Jones Electric Sleeping Cars . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous A Simple Laboratory Blowpipe Apparatus 61--61
Anonymous New Japanese Armored Cruisers ``Kasaga''
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Anonymous The Manhattan Bridge across the East
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Anonymous The Invention of the Sewing Machine . . 65--66
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
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Anonymous Mushroom Automobile Firms . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Racing Automobile and its Relation
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Anonymous The Fourth Annual New York Automobile
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Anonymous Improvements and Changes in Automobile
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Anonymous An Improved Buckboard Automobile . . . . 76--76
Anonymous An Electric Tricycle for Postal Work . . 76--76
Anonymous The 24 Horsepower Pope--Toledo Touring
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Anonymous The Stearns Gasoline Touring Car . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Some 1904 Touring Cars . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous The Thomas Triple-Cylinder Touring Car 80--81
Anonymous The Stevens--Duryea Gasoline Stanhope 81--82
Anonymous The Knox Double-Cylinder Cars with
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Anonymous The Regas Air-Cooled Automobile . . . . 83--83
Anonymous The New Franklin Tonneau . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous The Mitchell Air-Cooled Cars . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous The Prize-Winning Military Tractor of
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Anonymous The Paris Automobile Show . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous An Interesting Automobile Relio . . . . 86--86
Anonymous The Ivel Agricultural Motor . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous The Coldwell Steam Lawn Mower . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous A New Steam Runabout . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The New Autocar Runabout . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous A New Detachable Tire . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous The Cadillac Planetary Gear Transmission 88--88
Anonymous A Combination Tool for Automobiles . . . 88--90
Anonymous The Brown Lipe Steering Device . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous The Ford Record-Breaking Racer . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Glass-Front Protector for Phaetons . . . 90--90
Anonymous The New Columbia Touring Car . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous The Waverley Electric Runabout with
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Anonymous A Gasoline Hansom Cab . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous A New Light-Weight Electric Surrey . . . 92--92
Anonymous A Twin-Balloon Airship . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Charles F. Holder The Windows of the Sea . . . . . . . . . 94--94
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W. Frank M'clure Starfish and their Injuries . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
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Anonymous An Imperial Floating Exhibition . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Relative Strength of the Naval Powers 114--114
Anonymous The Grants of the Carnegie Institution 114--115
Marcus Benjamin Carroll Davidson Wright . . . . . . . . 115--115
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Anonymous Dispersion of Fogs by Electricity . . . 115--115
Anonymous An Ingenious Machine Which Greatly
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Anonymous Pullman Cars in Railroad Accidents . . . 117--117
Anonymous The New Stage of the Metropolitan Opera
House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
A. Frederick Collins Making Asbestos Fire Curtains and
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Walter L. Beasley The Aborigines of Japan . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Cooking Device for Camping Purposes . . 123--123
Anonymous Automatic Track Gage . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Spur Attachment for Leggings . . . . . . 123--123
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Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 143--147
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Our System of Naval Comparison . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Value of Correct Propeller Design . . . 130--130
Anonymous Precautions against Poisoning the Queen
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Anonymous The Eiffel Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Anonymous The Fuel Supply of the Japanese Navy . . 131--131
Anonymous Progress in the Study of Radium and
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Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous The Hydroscope and Its Success . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Safety Locomotive for Explosives Factory 132--132
George J. Jones Boiler Scale Detection . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous A Practical Primary Battery . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous The Japanese Navy . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Anonymous Results of the Florida Automobile Race
Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
G. P. Blackiston A Great Engineering Feat . . . . . . . . 138--138
Charles F. Holder Natural Monuments . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous The Blue Gnu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 164--167
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous The Man Behind the Gun . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Winter Insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Forcing Plants by Fire . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous New Kind of Rays Emitted from the Brain
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Anonymous Extensive Submarine Construction
Programme for Great Britain . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Magnetic Brake for Small Electric Motors 152--152
Emile Guarini Photography of Star Shadows . . . . . . 152--154
Anonymous The Great Baltimore Fire . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous The Russian Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Anonymous Two New Motor Bicycles . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Somersault Monocycle Course . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous Combined Pack and Riding Saddle . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Land Anchor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Spring Draft Attachment . . . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous A Novel Third-Rail Protector . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous The Disk Type of Water Meter . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 184--187
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Salt Water Fire Protection for New York
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Anonymous The Proposed Naval Appropriation . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Electricity in Mines . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Emission of N-Rays by the Human Body,
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Archibald S. Hurd Fleets in the Far East --- an English
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Submarine Sound Telegraphy . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Safety Hook Provided with Counting
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Anonymous A Powerful Compressed Air Clamp . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Novel Appliances for Fighting Fire . . . 173--174
Anonymous Modern Flour Milling . . . . . . . . . . 176--178
Anonymous The Disabled Russian Cruiser ``Novik'' 178--178
S. Frank Aaron The Parasite of the Oak Pruner . . . . . 179--179
C. Field Early Armorclads . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Superheated Steam . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous State Registration of United States
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Anonymous On the State of the Carbon Vaporized in
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Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Purchase of a Reservoir Site . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Rapid Transit Subway Tunnel under
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Anonymous The Fifth International Automobile Cup
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Anonymous Test of Fireproof Stage Properties in
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W. G. Fitzgerald Some Unusual Uses for Fire-Engines . . . 10--10
Anonymous Japanese Naval Guns . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
A. Frederick Collins A New Life-Saving Gun . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Arthur B. Weeks A Useful Instrument in the Niagara Falls
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Anonymous Insulating Apparatus for Canned Goods to
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 15--15
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 164--165
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 168--171
Anonymous Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous A Novel Canal Lift at Foxton . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous The Manhattan Bridge Fiasco . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Perils of the Submarine . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Electric Power for Oil Wells . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous The Production of Iron Ores in 1903 . . 154--155
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Launch of the Armored Cruiser ``South
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Anonymous A Novel Method of Making Relief Maps . . 157--157
Anonymous A Strange Railway Accident . . . . . . . 157--158
Anonymous Direct Photography in Natural Colors on
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Anonymous The ``Minnesota'' the Largest Steamship
Ever Built in America . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Express Engine and Turntable in the
Transportation Building . . . . . . . . 160--161
Anonymous Festival Hall and the Colonnade of
States --- the Architectural Masterpiece
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A. Frederick Collins Dispelling fog by Electricity --- an
Experimental Proof . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
Anonymous Quoin for Locking Type Forms . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous The International Motor-Boat Contest
``Napier II'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Improved Variable Speed and Reversing
Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Georgia Till Basket and Paducah Factory 166--167
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous The Art Commission and Public Structures 174--174
Anonymous The Agricultural Importance of Bacteria 174--174
Anonymous Possibilities of Peat as Fuel . . . . . 174--175
A. W. Bickerton The Sorting of Atoms . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Automobile Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Tilting Attachment for Vehicle Tops . . 176--176
Anonymous The Unarmored Composite Gunboat
``Dubuque'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Pendulum Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Frank C. Perkins The Buckeye Traction Ditcher . . . . . . 177--178
Anonymous The Completion of the New York Subway 178--178
Anonymous The New Cunard Turbine Steamers . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Government Life-Saving Station and the
Ferris Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
M. C. Sullivan Signal Service in Modern Warfare . . . . 182--183
Anonymous A Novel Gliding Machine . . . . . . . . 183--183
J. Mayne Baltimore Prof. Botts's Flying Machine . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 204--206
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous The Ultimate Development of the Gas
Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Endurance of Warship Machinery in the
Russo-Japanese War . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Production of Coal in 1903 . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous New York Meeting of the Society of
Chemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Launch of the First Turbine-Propelled
Liner for Transatlantic Traffic . . . . 191--191
Anonymous A Test of the Doenvig Globe . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous The Jungner Alkaline Accumulator . . . . 192--192
Anonymous A Record Transcontinental Automobile
Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Herbert I. Bennett A Trolley for Heavy Multiple-Unit
Electric Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Emile Guarini The Malcotti Telecryptograph for
Telegraphing Upon Telephone Lines . . . 193--194
C. B. Hayward Coffee and Coffee Culture . . . . . . . 194--195
Anonymous Modern Locomotives at the St. Louis
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Isabel R. Wallach The Dino Collection of Historic Armor 196--199
Anonymous Ruling Pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Wire-Reeling Apparatus . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Pump Diaphragm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 220--222
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous The Forlorn Hope of the Baltic Fleet . . 210--210
Anonymous A Grave Responsibility . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Proposed Amendment Permitting the
Extension of the Terms of Patents . . . 210--210
Anonymous Trunk Lines and Trolleys in the East . . 210--211
Anonymous The New York Sessions of the Eighth
International Geographic Congress . . . 211--211
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
W. Frank M'Clure The Manufacture of Wall Paper . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous A Reasoning Horse . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
William F. Rigge When was the Photograph Taken? . . . . . 213--214
Anonymous Completing the New Croton Dam . . . . . 214--215
Emile Guarrini The ``Lebaudy II'' . . . . . . . . . . . 216--218
Anonymous Native Dwellings at the St. Louis
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
O. Fulda Striking Examples of Insect Mimicry . . 219--219
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 220--220
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
Anonymous Warship Construction in Government Yards 226--226
Anonymous The Challenge Cup Motor-Boat Contest . . 226--226
Anonymous Water Versus Steam Power . . . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous A Novel Automatic Pump for Inflating
Automobile Tires . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Novel Spare Wheel and Tire Device for
Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous A Machine for Automatically Making
Incandescent Gas Mantles . . . . . . . . 228--229
Anonymous Domestic Bath Plumbing . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Emile Guarini A Novel Respiratory Apparatus . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Launching of the ``Connecticut'' and
``Milwaukee'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Herbert T. Walker Locomotive History at the World's Fair,
St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Walter L. Beasley Artificial Propagation of Lobsters . . . 233--234
Anonymous The Auto-Bolide . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Spelterini's Egyptian Pictures . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous That Ramapo Scheme Again . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Launching Weight of the
``Connecticut'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Menace of the Pullman Car . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous Curious Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Ernest Ingersoll Oddities in Self-Defense . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Automobile Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Emile Guarini The Camera Book . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Hydraulic Press for Embossing Silverware
at the St. Louis Fair . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Some New Types of Lifeboats . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Metal Cross Tie for Railroads . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Model of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Hudson River Tunnel Station at New York 246--246
Isabel R. Wallach Armor and Weapons of the De Dino
Collection --- II . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas 249--250
Anonymous Perfect Working Model of a Winton
Touring Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Walter L. Beasley The Largest Narwhal Tusk . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 271--273
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Elevator Fatalities and Their Prevention 258--258
Anonymous Big Guns for Future Warships . . . . . . 258--258
T. H. Evans Experiments on the Mosquito . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Arsenic Needed for the Body and Found in
Different Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
George E. Walsh Automobile Steel Specialties . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Municipal Bakery Experiments in Sicily 259--259
Anonymous Automobile Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous The Taxometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous The Diving Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous Transportable Wireless Telegraph Station
for War Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
S. Frank Aaion Insect Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Anonymous Dastardly Attempt to Wreck the
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Anonymous The ``Cire-Perdue'' Process of Bronze
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Charles B. Hayward A Novel Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Exhibits in the Boiler House and the
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous A Portable Pneumatic Duster . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Fruit and Potato Sorter . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Device for Muffling the Exhaust from
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Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 268--269
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 271--271
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Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 288--290
Anonymous Automobile Road Racing . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Charles F. Holder Scientific Disposition of Sewage . . . . 278--279
George E. Walsh A Life-Saving Museum . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American
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W. L. Radcliffe Train Wrecked by Collision with Dynamite 280--280
Day Allen Willey Testing Machines at the Boston Institute
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Anonymous The Fery Pyrometric Telescope . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous A Novel Interrupter for Induction Coils 281--282
Frank C. Perkins A New English Telephonic Fire Alarm . . 282--283
Anonymous First Competition for the Vanderbilt
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Anonymous Some Recent Launchings in the United
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Anonymous An Animal New to Science at the New York
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 304--306
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Inauguration of the Rapid Transit Subway 294--294
Anonymous Cost of Electric Water Power Plants . . 294--294
Anonymous To Stimulate Chemical Discovery . . . . 294--294
Anonymous A New Process of Making Trichromatic
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Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Romance of a Scientific Age . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Device for Pulling Tacks and Nails from
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Anonymous A Solar Reducing Furnace . . . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Improved Lime Kiln . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Passenger Locomotive with Vanderbilt
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Anonymous Opening of the New York Rapid Transit
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Anonymous Effect of Shell Fire on the Russian
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Anonymous Eskimo Village at the World's Fair . . . 301--302
Anonymous Preparations for the Airship Contest at
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Anonymous The Mounting of Butterflies for Nature
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
Anonymous The Shocking Disfigurement of the Subway 310--310
Anonymous Rapid Acceleration of the Subway Trains 310--310
Anonymous Scale Divisions and Errors of Graduation 310--310
Anonymous A New Method of Observing the N-Rays . . 310--310
Daniel Bellet The Personalities of Professor and
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Anonymous Benbow's Airship Flight . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous One Hundred and Fifty Miles an Hour on
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Emile Guarini The Verant: A New Device for Viewing
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Anonymous Model of a Continuous-Feed Gas Producer
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Anonymous The United States Mint at the St. Louis
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Anonymous A Novel Speed Indicator for Automobiles 313--314
S. Frank Aaron The Musical Wings of Insects . . . . . . 315--316
Day Allen Willey The Carrara of America . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous The Start of the Baltic Fleet . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Solar Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Attachment for Bolt-Heading Machines . . 319--319
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 35--35
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Anonymous The Progress of Mosquito Extermination 22--23
Anonymous A Vegetable Butter . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Historic Forest Fires . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Preparation of Cereal Foods . . . . 24--27
Anonymous The Submarine Torpedo Tube . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous The Gordon Bennett Cup Race . . . . . . 29--30
J. C. Wraith A Curious Formation of Horse's Skull . . 31--31
Alfred Gradenwitz The New Nemethy Flying-Machine and the
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Anonymous Improved Screwdriver . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 341--342
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Free Alcohol for Industrial Purposes . . 330--330
Anonymous Indian Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
L. Reuter Turpentine Derivatives . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Emile Guarini Penetration of Mercury by Seed Radicels 332--332
Anonymous Erecting the Columns for the Choir of
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W. Frank M'clure A Record in Ore Unloading . . . . . . . 333--333
Anonymous Electric Railway Locomotives for the New
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Anonymous The Trial Trip of the Armored Cruiser
``Colorado'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
Anonymous Notable St. Louis Airships . . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous The Cliff Dwellers at the St. Louis
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Day Allen Willey A Locomotive Duel Scientifically
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 362--363
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 363--367
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Increasing Railroad Fatalities . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous The Ventilation of the Subway . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous The Mining Debris Problem in California 350--350
Anonymous Work on the Simplon Tunnel . . . . . . . 350--351
Marrion Wilcox The Automobile and its Utility in the
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A. Frederick Collins A Carboy Inclinator . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
Anonymous An Improved Cattle Guard . . . . . . . . 352--352
Anonymous Revolving Scrubbing Machine . . . . . . 352--352
Anonymous The Miethe Color Projector . . . . . . . 353--353
Anonymous Recent Automobile and Motor-Boat Speed
Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Anonymous The German National Pavilion at St.
Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
Charles C. Johnson The Cultivation of Tea in Ceylon . . . . 357--358
F. W. Galpin The Water Organ --- a Roman Keyboard
Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
H. L. Jones Tomato Vines Thirty Feet Long . . . . . 360--360
Anonymous A Curious Piece of Casting . . . . . . . 360--360
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 383--386
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Port Arthur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Hydraulic Jet Propulsion . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous The Vast Railroad System of the United
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Anonymous Water-Curtain Fire Protection . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Loads on Factory Motors . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Automatic Step-Ladders . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Gasoline-Motor-Propelled Fire Engine . . 372--372
John S. Steele The Wine-Making Industry of New York
State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Randolph I. Geare The Ancient Races of Yucatan and Mexico.
--- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Japan at the St. Louis Fair . . . . . . 376--376
C. H. Claudy The New Asteroid Camera at the United
States Naval Observatory . . . . . . . . 377--378
J. Carter Beard New Antelopes at the N.Y. Zoological
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Anonymous Patent Departement . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Blow-Off Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous The Schebler Automatic Carbureter . . . 380--380
Anonymous An Adjustable Candle Holder . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 400--402
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Production and Population . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Gas Turbines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Power of Ocean Waves . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Electric Traction for Trunk Roads . . . 390--390
Anonymous Subway Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous A United States Warship on Trial . . . . 390--391
W. M. Reed The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Herbert T. Walker A Locomotive in Service Sixty Years . . 392--392
Anonymous A Tilting Lock-Chamber . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous New form of Liquid Rheostat for Starting
Electric Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Emile Guarini The Registration of Meteorological
Phenomena in Lapland . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
Anonymous An Interesting Relic . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Daniel Bellet Henri Becquerel . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
H. A. Crafts The California Redwood in Modern
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--398
Randolph I. Geare The Ancient Races of Yucatan and Mexico.
--- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Comet ``1904 A'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Walter L. Beasley Wax Farming in China --- a Strange
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Anonymous Legal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 418--419
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 420--420
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 420--423
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Close of the St. Louis Fair . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Baldwin and Santos-Dumont . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Death of a Famous Yacht Designer . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Steel Trackway on Streets . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Meteorological Observatories at Sea . . 406--407
Thomas Arthur Smoot Will ``Lightwood'' Displace the
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Anonymous Radio-Active Minerals . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous A Simple Burglar Alarm . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous A Sea Voyage on Land . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
J. Peltier River Rake for Channel Deepening . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Skeleton Models of Warships . . . . . . 409--411
Anonymous The Racial Exhibit at the St. Louis Fair 412--413
Frank C. Perkins The Use of Electricity in Driving
Coal-Conveying Machinery . . . . . . . . 413--415
Anonymous The Roman Galleys Discovered in Lake
Nemi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Improved Exercising Machine . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Sheet Metal Vehicle Wheel . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Milking Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 444--445
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 446--454
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 450--455
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Panama Canal Problems . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Blondlot and Prof. Wood on the N-Rays 426--426
Anonymous The Electric Smelting of Iron Ore . . . 426--426
Anonymous Launch of the Armored Cruiser
``Tennessee'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous News about the Submerged Coal
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Anonymous ``American Estates and Gardens'' . . . . 427--427
Anonymous The New British Patent Act . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous To our Subscribers . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Radium and Radio-Activity . . . . . . . 428--428
Harold J. Shepstone The Great London Power Station . . . . . 429--430
Anonymous Roman Remains in North Africa . . . . . 430--431
Anonymous The High-Powered Traction Engine and Its
Many Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
L. Ramakers Photography of the Interior of the Eye 435--435
Anonymous Aeroplanes in France and M. Archdeacon's
Apparatus. --- Rules for Concourses . . 435--436
Emile Guarini The Bioscope --- an Instrument for the
Study of Insect Life . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Day Allen Willey Irrigation in Southern California . . . 439--439
Anonymous Battleships ``Idaho'' and
``Mississippi'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous The Modern Battleship Within and Without 440--442
P. W. Galpin The How and Why of the Modern Keyboard.
--- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 468--470
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous A Great Public Improvement . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous A Canard and Its Refutation . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous The Crisis of the Russo-Japanese War . . 458--459
W. S. Cleveland Tidal Water Power-Means of Obtaining a
Constant Head of about Thirty-Eight Feet 459--459
Anonymous Wireless Burglar Alarm for Safes . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Pneumatic Pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Electrical Apparatus for Felling Trees 460--460
Anonymous Destructive Head-On Collision . . . . . 460--460
Walter L. Beasley A New Home for the Peary Meteorite . . . 461--461
Anonymous The Aerial Bridge at Duluth . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous The Haschke Compound Storage Battery . . 462--462
Anonymous A Tree on Stilts . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
H. I. Bennett Fire Protection for Snowsheds on the
Central Pacific Railroad . . . . . . . . 464--464
Oliver Johnson The Largest Geyser in the World . . . . 465--466
Anonymous A Novel Adaptation of the Archimedean
Screw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous A River of Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 49--50
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous How Long Must We Suffer . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Corrosion of Steam Boilers . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous New Method of Gold Extraction from
Pyrites Used in Italy . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Borax, and Food . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous A Novel Air Compressor . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Alfred Gradenwitz An Apparatus for Preventing Seasickness 40--40
Anonymous The Plans for the New Manhattan Bridge 41--42
Anonymous The New White Star Liner ``Baltic'' ---
the Largest Vessel in the World . . . . 44--46
Anonymous Cascades and Colonnade of States at the
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
N. R. Briggs Lensless Photography . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous The New Australian Patent Act . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Voting Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous A Compensating Windmill . . . . . . . . 47--48
Anonymous Improved Gage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Hose or Pipe Coupling . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Grain Lifter for Headers . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Ventilated Eye-Shade . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Chain Clamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous What We Inherit with the Panama Canal 58--58
Anonymous Cost of Electric Heating . . . . . . . . 58--59
Anonymous Study of Forest Conditions . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Long-Distance Non-Stop Railroad Runs in
Great Britain --- a New World's Record 59--59
Anonymous Automatic Coupling for Air-Brake Hose 60--60
Anonymous An Ingenious Adjustable Universal
Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
W. G. Fitzgerald The British Fireman's Mask and Smoke
Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Registration Balloons in Italy . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous Sir William Ramsay . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
C. Field Glasgow and
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Anonymous The Government Philippine Exposition . . 64--66
Walter L. Beasley The Flamingo and Its Queer Nest . . . . 66--67
James A. Warnock The Great Rotorua Geyser of New Zealand 67--67
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 68--68
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Railroads in Sweden to Use Electric
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Anonymous Recent Excavations at Carthage . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Wave-Operated Clocks at Paris . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Great Size of the St. Louis
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Need of Cotton-Picking Machines . . . . 74--75
Anonymous New York Central Express Compound
Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Automobile Street Sprinkler . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Planing Machine for Ships' Decks . . . . 77--77
Anonymous The Berger Disinfecting Lamp . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous What the Loss of the Port Arthur Fleet
Would Mean to Russia . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Howard B. Dailey Electrostatic Illuminations: Interesting
Experiments for the Induction Machine 80--80
Day Allen Willey The Work of a Western Cyclone . . . . . 81--82
Anonymous A Section of the Hudson River Tunnel at
the World's Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
C. E. Hutchinson A Trapdoor Spider . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Some New Additions to the United States
Zoological Park . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 100--103
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous The Exposition as an Educational Force 90--90
Anonymous Osmon, a New Combustible from Peat . . . 90--90
Anonymous M. Curie's Experiments with Radium
Emanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Tropical Specialties for Porto Rico . . 90--91
Anonymous The Influence of Milking upon the
Quantity and Quality of Milk . . . . . . 91--91
A. C. Maury Phosphorescent Crystallization of
Arsenious Acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous The Locomotive-Testing Plant at the
World's Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
John Plummer Counterweighted Cable Tramway . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous A Novel Wave Meter for Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous A Handless Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Major B. Baden-Powell Aeroplane Experiments . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Trained Animals at the World's Fair . . 97--98
Anonymous The Bee as an Artisan . . . . . . . . . 98--98
R. E. Chambers and
Rev Transportation Old and New . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Four Leading Foreign Exhibits at the
World's Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous The Penetrating Power of ``N$_1$-Rays'' 106--107
Anonymous The Position of the Range Finder on a
Warship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Renard's New Boiler for Airships . . . . 107--107
Anonymous A New Cunarder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The National Geographic Congress . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The Automobile Tour to the World's Fair 107--107
Waldon Fawcett The United States Marine Corps . . . . . 108--108
Frank C. Perkins The Mercury Vapor Lamp for Photographic
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
A. F. Shaw The Utilization of Snake Venom in
Preparing Anti-Bubonic Serum . . . . . . 109--110
Emile Guarini The Mount Pilatus Railway, Switzerland 110--111
Anonymous Speed Trial of the Battleship ``Ohio'' 112--112
Arthur Inkersley Strange Sights in the Far North . . . . 112--114
Anonymous Cabinet for Storing Phonograph Records 114--114
Anonymous Medical Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous A Marvelous Automobile Record ---
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Anonymous The Oldest Known Inhabitant of the Globe 115--115
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Japanese Daring on Land and Caution on
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Anonymous Radio-Activity Induced by the Emanations
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Anonymous Deductions from the Baltimore Fire . . . 122--123
Anonymous Electricity in Agriculture . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous A Plea for the Endowment of Astronomical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
William A. Lawson Mammoth Dredger Used for Reclamation
Work in California . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Emile Guarini An Instrument for Indicating Mean
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Anonymous New Steam Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Frank C. Perkins A New German Tower Electric Crane . . . 125--126
Anonymous Pumping Machinery at the St. Louis Fair 126--126
Mary Proctor The 1905 Eclipse of the Sun . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Admiral Togo's Flagship ``Mikasa'' . . . 128--130
Anonymous The Iguana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
R. I. Geare The Reindeer Industry in Alaska . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 148--151
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American and
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Anonymous Railway Speeds Here and in Europe . . . 138--138
Anonymous A Great Railway Scheme . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous The Romance of Light . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Anonymous Glass Models of Microscopic Forms of
Life --- an Interesting Art . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous The New York Subway Instruction Car . . 141--141
Charles Alma Byers Side-Door Coaches for World's Fair
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Ice-Cutting Machine . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous The Direct Production of Photographs in
Colors by a New Method . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous War Department Exhibit at the St. Louis
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Anonymous The Defeat of the Vladivostock Squadron 146--147
J. Mayne Baltimore The New Baldwin Airship . . . . . . . . 147--148
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Retrospect of the Year 1904 . . . . . . 2--3
Anonymous A Gearless Two-Speed Bicycle . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous A Bad Case of Gun Erosion . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous New Photographic Lamp . . . . . . . . . 4--4
W. Frank M'clure The Manufacture of Macaroni . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Largest Water Turbine in Existence 6--6
Lewis M. Haupt The New York Harbor Entrance . . . . . . 7--7
Emile Guarini The Turbine-Driven Steamer ``Manxman'' 8--8
Enos Brown The Prune and its Cultivation . . . . . 9--10
Anonymous The Largest Lobster on Record . . . . . 10--10
J. Carter Beard The Queerest of Creatures --- I . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 210--215
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous A Port Arthur Mystery Explained . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Proposed Manhattan Loop for Brooklyn
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Anonymous New Experiments in Turpentining . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Wind Pressure on Bridges . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Studies of the Food Value of Fruit . . . 198--199
Hugo Erichsen The Dangers of Dining . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous New Compound Formed in Electric Furnace 199--199
Anonymous New Sun Spots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Arthur B. Weeks A Rolling Road for Horses and Wagons . . 200--200
Anonymous Curious Effects of Damage by Ice . . . . 200--200
Anonymous A Typewriter a Minute . . . . . . . . . 201--202
Anonymous A Magnetic Indicator for Tanks . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous The New Cunard Liner ``Caronia'' . . . . 204--205
Anonymous Chicago's Freight Subways . . . . . . . 205--206
Anonymous Story of the Operations of the Russian
Fleet at Pt, Arthur as told by One of
the Commanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Lake Erie and the New York Water Supply 218--218
Anonymous The Tempering of Bronze . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Suburban Traffic in London . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Bacterial Soil Inoculation for
Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Anonymous An Important Discovery in the
Purification of Contaminated Water . . . 219--219
Wallace C. Sabine The Whispering Gallery in the Capitol at
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous The French Aeroplane Contest . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Inoculating Animals against Disease . . 221--221
Charles A. Brassler The Astronomical Clock of the City Hall
of Ulm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Edward Whitehead Curtiss A Study of the Brooklyn Bridge Problem 222--223
A. Frederick Collins Transportation of Materials by
Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
Charles R. King The Completion of the Simplon Tunnel . . 226--226
Anonymous Port Arthur after the Capitulation . . . 227--228
Anonymous A New Type of Rail Joint . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Improved Backing Harness for Teams . . . 228--228
Anonymous Reamer for Enlarging Blast Holes . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
Anonymous Japan's Losses on the Sea . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous A Sea-Level Canal at Panama . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous The Tides at Colon and Panama . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous An Electrical Analogue for Respiration 239--239
Anonymous The British Naval Programme for 1905 . . 239--239
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Alfred Gradenwitz A Novel Process for using Blue Light as
an Anæsthetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Anonymous The New British Battleship ``King Edward
VII'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Day Allen Willey Striking Snow Statuary . . . . . . . . . 241--241
Anonymous The New York Hippodrome . . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous Registering Thermometer . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous A New Cadmium Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Tombs at Mukden of the Ming Dynasty 244--245
Charles B. Hayward Powerful German Windmills . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Multi-Firearms of Ancient Times . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 248--248
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 269--269
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 270--271
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Casualties --- Military and Civil . . . 258--258
Anonymous ``Consigned to the Scrap Heap'' . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Electric Railways and Population . . . . 258--258
N. Monroe Hopkins The George Washington University . . . . 258--259
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Cables that Withstand 90,000 Volts . . . 260--260
Anonymous The Progress of Aviation Since 1891 . . 260--260
W. G. Fitz Gerald A Swimming School for Cavalry Horses . . 261--261
Anonymous A Simple Rim for Detachable Tires . . . 261--262
A. Frederick Collins A Home-Made Wireless Signaling
Transmitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Enos Brown Salt Making on San Francisco Bay . . . . 264--266
Emile Guarini The Barossa Dam, Southern Australia . . 266--266
Anonymous The New Blackwell's Island Bridge . . . 266--266
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Lineman's Support . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous An Ink-Controlled Fountain Drawing and
Writing Pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Rail-Joint Connection . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Hose Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Anonymous Railway Gage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous The New Trade Mark Law . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 269--269
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 289--289
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 291--295
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The Ocean Race for the German Emperor's
Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous The Dangers and Difficulties of Tunnel
Boring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Electric Street Railroads Versus
Motor-Propelled Vehicles for Passenger
Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Hugo Erichsen An Antitoxin for Laziness . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Turbines vs. Reciprocating Engines in
Marine Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Day Allen Willey The Lofty Pecos Viaduct on the Southern
Pacific Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous The Largest of Bears . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Anonymous The ``Victorian'' the First Turbine
Atlantic Liner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Edward F. Chandler Miniature Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Arthur B. Weeks How to Make an Electric Soldering Iron 283--283
Anonymous The Double-Deck Subway System . . . . . 283--284
Anonymous The Entries for the German Emperor's
Ocean Cup Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous The Great Premier Diamond . . . . . . . 285--286
Walter L. Beasley Some Remarkable Old Chinese Bronzes . . 287--288
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 289--289
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 312--315
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Vandalism at Niagara Falls . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous The True Point of View . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous The Fastest 40-Foot Motor Boat . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous Complete the Present Subway Plan . . . . 298--298
W. Ostwald The Chemistry of Painting and the
Preservation of Canvases . . . . . . . . 298--299
Alton D. Adams Niagara Power at Goat Island . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Standard Time at a Modern Watch Works 300--301
Anonymous The Opening of the New Croton Reservoir 302--302
Anonymous Liquid Fuel Burner . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Alcohol from Sawdust . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous A Column of Horseshoes . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Anonymous The Giantess Rosa Wedsted . . . . . . . 305--305
Anonymous A Spontaneously-Moving Stone Ball . . . 305--307
L. Lodian Concentrated Tea Slabs . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous A Curiously Distorted Locomotive . . . . 308--308
J. Mayne Baltimore A Very Rare Bronze Casting . . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 328--328
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 330--335
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Maximum Load Due to Crowding . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Rojestvensky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Radium on Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Alex. Del Mar Our Heritage of the Mechanical Arts . . 319--319
Anonymous Novelties in Fire Alarms . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Maximum Load Due to a Crowd of People 320--320
Anonymous Disappearing Coast-Defense Guns . . . . 320--320
Day Allen Willey The Vesuvius of America . . . . . . . . 321--322
Alfred Gradenwitz A Leadless Sounding Apparatus . . . . . 323--323
W. G. Fitz-Gerald Realism in Military Maneuvers . . . . . 324--324
Enos Brown The Concrete Amphitheater at Berkeley,
Cal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--326
Anonymous An Electric Street Sprinkler . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Improved Belt-Stud Tool . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Improved Shell-Digger . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 329--329
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 349--349
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 351--355
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Subway Competition and Cheap Fares . . . 338--338
Anonymous Another Turbine Atlantic Liner . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous ``Connecticut''--``Louisiana'' Contest 338--338
Anonymous The Vanderbilt Water-Tube Boiler for
Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Alex. Del Mar Our Heritage of the Mechanical Arts ---
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
L. Lodian The Virgin Lace (Lace-Bark) of the
Tropics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous An Efficient Disk Transmission for
Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
A. Frederick Collins The Cooper Hewitt Mercury Vapor
Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
Anonymous New Masonry Drydock at the Boston Navy
Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Anonymous How Hydrographic Charts are Made . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Harnessing the Victoria Falls for
Electrical Power . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Anonymous Pompeiian Silver Ware . . . . . . . . . 346--346
James G. M'curdy Novel Method of Logging Small Tracts . . 347--348
Charles F. Holder Photographing Leaping Fishes . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 370--375
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Safety of the Great Assouan Dam . . . . 358--358
Anonymous The Manhattan Bridge Scandal . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Textile Fabrics of Paper . . . . . . . . 358--359
Marcus Benjamin The National Academy of Sciences . . . . 359--359
Alex. Del Mar Our Heritage of the Mechanical Arts ---
III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous A Novel Balanced Door . . . . . . . . . 360--360
L. R. Gignilliat Manning Oars and Halyards as a Summer
Outing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--362
Anonymous A Simple Rheostat . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Day Allen Willey The Lewis and Clark Exposition . . . . . 364--366
Anonymous Raising an Aeroplane with an Automobile 366--366
Anonymous Finding of the Body of Admiral Paul
Jones in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
A. Frederick Collins A New Type of Watch Demagnetizer . . . . 368--368
Anonymous Improvement in Magazine Firearms . . . . 368--368
Anonymous Tent Fastener . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 390--395
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous The International Railway Congress . . . 378--378
Anonymous The Economics of the Moving Platform . . 378--378
Anonymous The Strength of Timber Treated with
Preservatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Anonymous A Visit to the Interior of the Crater of
Mont Pelée and a Partial Ascent of the
New ``Dome'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous A New Type of Cow-Milking Machine . . . 380--380
Anonymous Completing the Jerome Park Reservoir . . 381--382
Anonymous The Auxetophone for Reinforcing
Gramophone Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Moving Platform Subway for New York City 382--383
Charles Lavell The Viagraph: An Instrument for
Measuring Road Wear . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous The Making of a Gobelin Tapestry . . . . 384--386
Anonymous A Novel Five-Wheeled Automobile . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Bee Culture for Medicinal Purposes . . . 387--387
Charles Alma Byers A Petrified Forest Covering Thousands of
Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 30--31
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Lessons of the Japanese War . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Performance of French and American
Locomotives Compared . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
P. Greeley The Proposed New Trade-Mark Law . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
William Etzel A Four-Thousand-Dollar Watch . . . . . . 20--20
Alfred Gradenwitz A Novel Water Wheel . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
A. Frederick Collins The Gros Life-Belt . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Day Allen Willey Snow Crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Anonymous Packing for Steam-Boiler Manholes . . . 22--22
Anonymous An Annual Italian Automobile Cup Race 22--22
J. A. MacDonald Determining the Meridian without
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Why Barrels are Broken by Ice Expansion 23--23
Anonymous An Interesting Powerful Steam Dredger
for Harbor Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Richard Barry The Investment, Siege, and Capture of
Port Arthur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Improved Garment Hanger . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Novel Attachment for Automobiles . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 409--410
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 412--415
Anonymous The Recent Railroad Horror . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Two Great Ocean Contests . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Complete the Coast Defenses . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous The International Railway Congress . . . 398--399
Anonymous An Electric Process for Manufacturing
Peat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Artificial Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Charles A. Brassler An Astronomical Clock with an Automatic
Adjustment of Time and Church Calendar 400--400
Day Allen Willey Concrete Foundations of the New
Passenger Station, Washington, D.C. . . 401--402
Anonymous The Modern High-Speed Locomotive . . . . 402--402
Anonymous The Great 3,000-Mile Yacht Race . . . . 402--403
Anonymous The Montgomery Aeroplane . . . . . . . . 404--406
Anonymous Destroying a Russian Mine . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Comparative Tests of Steam and Electric
Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Patent and Department . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous An Improved Viscosimeter . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous An Improved Fire Extinguisher . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Apparatus for Testing Flashing Points of
Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 428--428
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Anonymous High Explosives on Freight Trains . . . 418--418
Anonymous An Oft-Repeated Question . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Coal Supply of the Future . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Battleship Strength of the Navies of the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Superstitions that Prevail in Rural
Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419
Anonymous The First Observations with
``Ballons-Sondes'' in America . . . . . 419--419
J. A. Honeking A Method for Putting Printed Matter on
Finished Lantern Slides . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous A Historical Locomotive . . . . . . . . 420--420
Randolph I. Geare The Cobra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--420
Emile Guarini Oxygen at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421
Anonymous The Renaissance of the Bayonet . . . . . 421--422
Anonymous Start of the Ocean Race . . . . . . . . 422--422
Anonymous American Racing Cars for the
International Cup Race . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Walter L. Beasley The New York Aquarium . . . . . . . . . 425--426
Anonymous A Novel Power Launch for Clearing
Weed-Infested Waterways . . . . . . . . 426--426
L. Ramakers Modern Thermometric Apparatus for High
Temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 428--428
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 449--450
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Anonymous An Attack on the Wire-Wound Gun . . . . 438--438
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Anonymous Electric Mail Automobiles . . . . . . . 440--440
Emile Guarini The Graphic Chronometer . . . . . . . . 441--441
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Anonymous History and Present Status of the Panama
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Anonymous The Grubb Gun-Sight . . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous The Algiers--Toulon Motor-Boat Race . . 446--447
Nelson R. Briggs Do Animals Reason? . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Edgar Russell An Unusual Incident of Cable Work . . . 447--447
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Improved Dumping Car . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous An Improved Ditching Machine . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous A Puncture-Proof Tire . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 469--469
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Anonymous An Unparalleled Victory . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Electricity as a Stimulant to Plant
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Anonymous Something New about the Vocal Mechanism 458--459
Anonymous The Railway Around Lake Baikal . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous A New Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Meteorological Summary, New York, N.Y.,
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous A New Apparatus for Coaling Steamers . . 460--460
William F. Rigge Where Was the Camera Set up? . . . . . . 461--461
Frank C. Perkins An Electrical Aerial Ferry . . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous The Finish of the Ocean Yacht Race . . . 462--462
Anonymous The Battle of the Sea of Japan . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Admiral Togo and His Flagship . . . . . 464--465
Anonymous Modern Scientific Dairy Methods . . . . 465--466
Herbert T. Walker An Old High-Speed Locomotive . . . . . . 467--468
Anonymous A Novel Milk Pail . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
George J. Jones An Iceless Electric Refrigerator on a
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 469--469
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 489--489
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 491--495
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Anonymous The Effect of the War on Naval
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Anonymous Fast Long-Distance Trains . . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous Ventilation of the Subway . . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous The Submarine Boat Disasters . . . . . . 478--479
Alton D. Adams Selection of Transmission Voltages . . . 479--479
Anonymous New Method of Milk Analysis by
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Anonymous An Explanation of Ice Caves . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous Loss of Heat in Steam . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous A Vagary of the Russian Press Censor . . 479--479
Anonymous The Alvares Aeroplane Flying Machine . . 480--480
Enos Brown The Creation of Life by Artificial Means 480--480
Anonymous The New Submarines for the British Navy 481--481
Alfred Gradenwitz On a Process of Measuring Nervous
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Anonymous Mines and Entanglements in the
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Anonymous A Power Brake and Whistle for
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C. H. Claudy A Model Photographic Laboratory . . . . 483--485
G. A. Thompson Some Unusual Discoveries of Variable
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Alfred Gradenwitz The Capillary Motor . . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Anonymous A Novel Reflecting Lantern . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous A 750-Ton Metal Mixer . . . . . . . . . 488--488
Anonymous A Beehive Incubator . . . . . . . . . . 488--488
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Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 509--509
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 509--512
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--514
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Anonymous Increasing the New York Water Supply . . 498--498
Anonymous The Warships of the Future . . . . . . . 498--498
Anonymous Eye-Strain and How It Can be Relieved 498--499
Anonymous Electric Waves and Liquids . . . . . . . 499--499
C. J. Blanchard Reclamation Work in Southern California 499--499
Anonymous Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Anonymous The Development of a Mollusk . . . . . . 500--500
Charles B. Hayward The Gillespie Aeroplane . . . . . . . . 501--501
C. H. Claudy The United States Naval Observatory
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Anonymous New Type of Electric Truck . . . . . . . 505--506
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous The Production of Automobiles on a Lapge
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 47--51
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Anonymous Schedule Versus Safety . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous The American Exhibit of Foreign
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Anonymous A Monumental Building . . . . . . . . . 38--39
George E. Walsh The Life of a Barrel . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Determining a Ship's Bearing by Wireless
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous The New Grand Central Station, New York 40--40
W. Frank M'clure A Chicken-Feeding Machine . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous New Cælostat and Horizontal Telescope of
the Astrophysical Observatory of the
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Anonymous The Brontosaur How a Giant Prehistoric
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Anonymous Completion of the East Boston Tunnel . . 44--46
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 47--47
Garrett P. Serviss The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 55--55
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Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
Anonymous Our Assets at Panama . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Asphalt Flooring at Subway Stations . . 54--54
Anonymous History Repeats itself . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Warfare by Telegraph . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous The Fifth Annual Automobile Show . . . . 54--54
Anonymous An Electric-Acoustic Sea-Sounding
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Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Some Leading Automobiles of the Present
Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
Anonymous A Typical American Four-Cylinder
Gasoline Touring Car Motor . . . . . . . 57--57
Anonymous Typical American Touring Cars for 1905 58--59
Anonymous Foreign Automobiles at the Importers'
Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous Twenty-Passenger Auto-Stage for
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Anonymous A Gasoline Police Patrol Wagon . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The Brush Motor Omnibus . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The New Oldsmobile Delivery Wagon . . . 62--63
Anonymous A Gasoline Truck Driven by all Four
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Anonymous The Northern Touring Car . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous The New Grout Steam Automobile . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous A New Spring Wheel for Automobiles . . . 64--64
Anonymous A Four-Cylinder Motor Bicycle . . . . . 65--65
Anonymous A Novel Side-Chair Attachment for Motor
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Anonymous The National Touring Car . . . . . . . . 66--67
Anonymous A New American Automobile . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous A Powerful Light-Weight Gasoline Motor 70--70
Anonymous Ignition Accumulators . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Solid and Non-Skid Tires for Automobiles 72--72
Anonymous Timing Automobile Races . . . . . . . . 72--72
Alfred Gradenwitz The Stolze Gas Turbine . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Edward H. L. Page The Old Portage Railroad in Pennsylvania 74--76
Arthur Inkersley A Pavement of Whales' Bones . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous The Parallax Stereogram . . . . . . . . 76--76
Charles B. Hayward Bananas --- Their Culture and
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Anonymous An American Motor Sleigh . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 109--110
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 110--115
Anonymous Gas-Driven Locomotives and Ships? . . . 98--98
Anonymous Can the Port Arthur Fleet be Raised? . . 98--98
Anonymous World's Automobile Records in Florida 98--98
Anonymous Our Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Charles H. Haswell Foaming of the Water in a Steam Boiler
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Anonymous Passage of the Trade-Mark Law by the
House of Representatives . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Eclipse Expedition from Kirkwood
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Alfred Gradenwitz A Novel Type of Hay Stacker . . . . . . 100--100
A. Frederick Collins A Seedless, Coreless, Bloomless Apple 100--100
Day Allen Willey The New Concrete Chapel of the United
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Anonymous The Turret and Barbette of a Battleship 103--103
Anonymous Opening of the Niagara Canadian Power
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Anonymous The Annual Automobile Race Meet at
Ormond, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
George J. Jones New System of Egg Transportation . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Hopkins ``Band Electro-Chronograph,''
Carable of Dividing a Second of Time
Into One Hundred Thousand and One
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Anonymous An Improved Fire Escape . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Vehicle Attachment for Keeping Record of
Driver's Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous An Automatic Door Alarm . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Oil Can with means for Controlling
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 129--129
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 130--135
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Closing of the Croton Dam . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Value of the Towing Tank . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Growing Interest in Forest Preservation 118--118
Anonymous Strength of Preserved Timber . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous A Design for Turbine Cruisers . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Opening of Dinosaur Hall of the American
Museum of Natural History . . . . . . . 118--119
Anonymous Twenty Thousand Dollars for New
International Race . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Some New Cooper Hewitt Inventions . . . 119--119
Anonymous Prizes for Essays on Cement . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous A Compact and Economical Kerosene Engine 120--120
H. C. Dinger Scout Cruisers for the United States
Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Fog Dispersion by Electricity . . . . . 121--122
A. Frederick Collins Trees as Antennæ in Wireless Telegraphy 123--123
Anonymous The Ski in Peace and War . . . . . . . . 124--126
Anonymous Ontario Power Company's Power Plant at
Niagara Falls --- II . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous New Automobile Records at the Florida
Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous An Improved Type of Water-Tube Boiler 128--128
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous An Improved Incandescent Gas Lamp . . . 131--131
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 149--150
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 152--155
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous The Old and the New . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Wind Pressure on Bridges and Buildings 138--138
Anonymous The Proposed Railroad to Key West . . . 139--139
G. Meynell Gas Engines for Factory Power . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous A Patent Dedicated to the Public . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Transformer Outfits for Thawing Pipes 140--140
Anonymous A New Type of Lifeboat . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Emile Guarini Electrical Radiators . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous An Ambulance Automobile . . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Electrical Equipment of the New York
Central Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Walter L. Beasley The United States Naval Training School
at Newport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous The Origin and Form of Hoarfrost . . . . 145--146
Anonymous What We Know about Sun Spots . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Another Form of Looping the Loop . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous A Novel Magazine Tack Hammer . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous An Improved Amalgamator . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous A New Type of Grate . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 169--175
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Turbines for Tramp Steamers . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Three Months of Railroad Slaughter . . . 158--158
Anonymous Future Water Supply of New York City . . 158--159
Enos Brown The Heaton Airship Failure . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous The Moore--Heskett Direct Process for
the Manufacture of Wrought Iron and
Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Explosion of a Submarine . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous The Charcot Antarctic Expedition . . . . 159--159
Anonymous How to Make a Mercury Thermometer . . . 160--160
Emile Guarini A Tachometric Watch for Bicycles and
Other Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Arthur Inkersley A Blast of Dynamite and How It Was
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Anonymous New 25-Knot British Scouts . . . . . . . 161--162
Lord Kelvin My Scientific Education . . . . . . . . 162--162
N. Monroe Hopkins An Easily-Constructed Rotating Anode
Equipment for Rapid Electro-Analysis . . 163--163
Anonymous A Huge Electro-Magnet for Optical and
Surgical Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Day Allen Willey Rocky Mountain Avalanches . . . . . . . 164--164
Charles A. Brassler Antique Watches of the Famous Marfels
Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
J. Carter Beard The Queerest of Creatures --- II . . . . 167--167
Anonymous An Improved Hay Rack . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous A Simple Car Fender . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous A New Type of Electric Coupé . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous A Novel Gravity Railway System . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 169--169
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 190--195
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Steel Cars and Safe Travel . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous The Military Method of Educating Boys 178--178
Anonymous The Free-Alcohol Question . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous New Trade-Mark Law of April 1, 1905 . . 178--179
B. L. Putnam Grandfather's Barometer . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
H. E. Wright The Largest Ferryboat in the World . . . 180--180
Anonymous The Capitaine Marine Producer-Gas Engine 180--180
Anonymous A New Meteorite Recently Placed in the
American Museum of Natural History . . . 181--181
Day Allen Willey Modern Methods of Gold Prospecting and
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R. L. Gignilliat Education of Boys by the Military Method 184--184
Anonymous A Novel Motor Ice Boat . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous The Heaton Airship . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Motor Boat Engines at the Sportsmen's
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Sanderson Christison Curious Fishes of the Deep Sea . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 190--190
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous American Homes and Gardens --- The New
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Anonymous Atmospheric Conditions in the Subway . . 4--4
Anonymous A City of Towers . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Are Fast Trains Dangerous? . . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Randolph I. Geare The Englehardt Unsinkable Lifeboat . . . 6--6
Emile Guarini An Apparatus for Indicating the
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Anonymous The Bird as a Model for the Aeroplane 7--8
Anonymous Exploring for Fossils . . . . . . . . . 9--10
Anonymous The Wachusett Reservoir for Boston Water
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Frank C. Perkins Photographing the New York Subway . . . 12--12
Anonymous An Efficient Portable Fire Escape . . . 13--13
Anonymous A Novel Tobacco Pipe . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Improved Folding Coop . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous An Improved Carbureter . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 14--14
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 186--191
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Maneuvering Power of Turbine Steamships 174--174
Anonymous Steel Cars and Safe Travel on Steam
Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Railroad Housekeeping Economies . . . . 174--175
Anonymous Lumber Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Charles Monroe Mansfield Natural-Size Photography . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous A Giant Dredge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
H. A. Crafts Time Test of a Great Irrigating System 177--177
Alton D. Adams Recession of Niagara Fails . . . . . . . 178--178
C. Field Grenades and Grenadiers . . . . . . . . 179--180
Anonymous Knabenshue's Airship and its Exploits 181--181
Anonymous Motor Sprinkler at Cologne . . . . . . . 182--182
Emile Guarini Sterilization of Water . . . . . . . . . 182--184
Anonymous An Improved Ash Sifter . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous A Pneumatic Eraser . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous A New Toy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 205--206
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 207--211
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous The Budapest and Manhattan Suspension
Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Naval Losses of the Russo-Japanese War 194--194
Anonymous Peace in the Far East . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Randolph I. Geare Pearls and Pearl Shells . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Trial Trip of the Barton Airship . . . . 196--197
Anonymous The Elizabeth Bridge at Budapest . . . . 197--198
L. Ramakers The Laboratory for the Testing of
Materials of the Charlottenburg
Polytechnic School of Berlin . . . . . . 199--199
I. B. Owens The Oyster Industry . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Anonymous A Fireless Cooker . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
A. Frederick Collins Artificial Production of Real Diamonds 204--205
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 227--231
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Planning the Panama Canal . . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous Filtration for Croton Water . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous Our Railroad System . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous The Progress of Wireless Telegraphy in
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Anonymous The Buoyancy of Submarine Boats . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Ramsay, Radium, and Burke . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Lost Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Herbert I. Bennett The Truckee--Carson Irrigation Project 216--218
Anonymous Observation of Solar Eclipse at Sea . . 218--219
Enos Brown Luther Burbank and Plant Breeding . . . 220--221
Anonymous The Grand Central Station Terminal
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
E. O. Sawyer An Aerial Rowboat . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Arthur Inkersley A Respiratory Apparatus for Firemen . . 224--224
Anonymous The Most Powerful Express Locomotive in
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 247--251
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous The Bicycle and the Automobile . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Loss of the Flagship ``Mikasa'' . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Risk of Derailment on Elevated Railroad
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous An Important Innovation in Telegraphy 234--235
George M. S. Tait The Effect of Hydrogen on Gas Engine
Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous The Phonocard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Producing High Vacua . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous The Elevated Railroad Wreck in New York 236--236
Anonymous Our Naval Guns in the Civil War and
To-Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Electrical Control of Bulkhead Doors on
Warships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous The First Producer-Gas Boat . . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous A Government-Built Battleship . . . . . 239--239
Day Allen Willey Hydraulic Suction Dredge on the
Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
M. Benedict Maye The New Solar Observatory at Mount
Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Anonymous Ancient Reservoirs at Carthage . . . . . 242--243
Charles Frederick Holder An Interesting Shark . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous A Novel Carriage-Washing Apparatus . . . 244--244
Anonymous New Warp-Beam Tension Devices for Looms 244--245
Anonymous New Rotary Valve for Steam Engines . . . 245--245
Anonymous A Striking Illusion Apparatus . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Sand Wheel Toy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous A New Wind Instrument . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 268--271
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Building the Erie Barge Canal . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Another North River Tunnel . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Magnetic Survey of the North Pacific
Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Chains Versus Cables in the Manhattan
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Anonymous Trade Marks on Copyrighted Works . . . . 254--255
Anonymous Vanderbilt Cup Elimination Trials . . . 255--255
G. H. Darwin Is Radium the Cause of the Sun's Heat
and Light? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Patents for Exported Articles ---
Practical Advice to Manufacturers . . . 255--255
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous An Early Typewriter . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Pie-Making by Machinery . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous High-Speed Steam Yacht and Power-Boat
Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous 180-Ton Shear Legs for the British Naval
Dockyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Heliotropism Induced by Radium . . . . . 259--259
H. A. Crafts Evolution of the California Clam-Shell
Dredger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous The Making of a Felt Hat . . . . . . . . 260--262
Anonymous Combined Rack and Adhesion Locomotive
for South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Charles Edward Tingley Littlefield and the Artificial Creation
of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
L. Ramakers A New Method of Identifying Criminals 264--264
Alfred Gradenwitz A New Projection System for Lectures . . 265--265
Emile Guarini A New Apparatus for Automatically Making
and Breaking an Electric Circuit . . . . 265--265
Anonymous A Novel Device for Preventing
Automobiles from Skidding . . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 266--266
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Two Engineers in the Cab . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Comparison of Turbines and Reciprocating
Marine Engines in Service . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Panama Canal in Four Years . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Recent Advances in Selective Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Something about Alligators . . . . . . . 276--276
Alfred Gradenwitz A Novel Process of Reanimation . . . . . 276--277
W. Frank M'clure Brick Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
Anonymous An Apparatus for Observing and
Automatically Registering Thunderstorms 278--278
Anonymous The Vanderbilt Cup Elimination Race . . 280--282
Daniel Bellet Gliding Boats --- The Navigation of the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
Anonymous An Automatic Switch for Making and
Breaking the Primary Circuit of
Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Circuit-Breaker for Explosive Engines 284--284
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 305--306
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 307--311
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Filtration and the Future Water Supply
for New York City . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Present Railroad Track Inefficient . . . 294--294
Anonymous The Need for Federal Quarantine Control 294--294
John R. Spears Evolution of the Tow Barge . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Herbert T. Wade How Clinical Thermometers are
Standardized and Tested . . . . . . . . 296--296
W. Frank M'clure The ``Elbert H. Gary'' --- The Greatest
of Ore-Carrying Steamers . . . . . . . . 297--298
Howard B. Dailey Stratification in Vacuo: Its Production
with the Influence Machine . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Aftermath of Port Arthur . . . . . . . . 300--301
Anonymous The Santos-Dumont ``No. 14'' . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous A Hundred Ways of Breaking Your Neck . . 302--304
W. P. White Air Pumps for Experimental Purposes . . 304--304
Anonymous Valve for Oil Wells . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 325--325
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 326--331
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous The Single-Phase System in America . . . 314--314
Anonymous Our Two Great Canal Projects . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Vanderbilt Cup Race . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
George S. Hodgins A Temperance Match . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
J. E. Wallace Wallin The Size Illusion of the Depressed
Letter P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous The Dufaux Flying Machine . . . . . . . 316--317
Alfred Gradenwitz Interesting Repair Work on a German
Steamship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous A Novel Process for Disengaging Forces
by Means of Sound . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Electric Power Developments at Niagara
Falls --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Anonymous A New Method of Constructing Sanitary
Sewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Giants of the Insect World . . . . . . . 323--324
Anonymous A Useful Chain Grip for Automobiles . . 324--324
Alfred Gradenwitz A Binocular Head Lens . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Anchor and Fastener for Lightning
Conductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 325--325
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 345--345
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 348--351
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous A Lesson from the Lewis and Clark Fair 334--334
Anonymous Long-Span Bridges of the World . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Life on Other Worlds . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Anonymous The First Toolmakers and Their Methods 335--335
Anonymous Literature for Convalescents . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Twenty-Five Electric Locomotives for
N.Y., N.H., and H.R.R. Co . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Day Allen Willey ``The Time of Day'' . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
Anonymous The St. Lawrence River Bridge, Quebec 337--338
Edgar L. Larkin Measuring the Distance of a Star . . . . 338--339
Anonymous The Second Annual Automobile Race for
the Vanderbilt Cup . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Anonymous Archæological Discoveries at Antinoë . . . 342--342
J. Carter Beard Striped Steeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 344--344
Anonymous A New Self-Cleaning Spark Plug . . . . . 344--344
Anonymous Hanger for Cable Heads . . . . . . . . . 344--344
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 344--344
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 345--345
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 366--371
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous A Discredited Theory . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous One Year's Operation of the Subway . . . 354--354
Anonymous Mr. Hildenbrand and the Manhattan Bridge
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Tunnel Boring in Ancient Palestine . . . 355--355
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Ludlow's First Successful Flight . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Test of a Torpedo Shell . . . . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous The Twin-Screw Liner ``Amerika'' . . . . 360--361
Anonymous Some Cities of Ancient Egypt . . . . . . 362--363
Adele M. Fielde Tenacity of Life in Ants . . . . . . . . 363--364
Anonymous A Street-Sprinkling Curb . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous An Odorless Gas Stove . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Business ana Personal Wants . . . . . . 365--365
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 33--34
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 35--39
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous The United States and the Command of the
Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Canal from Pittsburgh to the Lakes 22--22
Anonymous Safety on the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous New Electric Railroads . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Horace T. Eddy Electric Railway Developments . . . . . 23--23
W. E. Irish Feathered Flying Machines . . . . . . . 24--24
Alfred Gradenwitz The Improved Gruhn Telautograph . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Sea Strength of the Naval Powers . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Ancient Chaldean Remains Found in Recent
Excavations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous The ``Leap-Frog'' Railway . . . . . . . 29--30
Anonymous Two Pairs of Interlocked Deer Horns . . 31--31
Emile Guarini Folding Canoes and Jointed Oars . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Glass-Framing Attachment for Window
Sashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous A Novel Wave Motor . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous A Convenient Pipe Coupling . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 385--386
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 386--391
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous An American Floating Exposition . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Sanitation of the Panama Canal Zone . . 374--374
Anonymous Colloids, Suspensions, and Related
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Anonymous ``The \booktitleScientific American
Boy'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
L. Lodian Some Curious uses of American Woods . . 375--375
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous A Six-Cylinder 400-Horse-Power Racing
Gasoline Power Boat . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
D. R. Winslow Microphotography . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--378
Alfred Gradenwitz Uniformity of Organic and Inorganic
Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous Automatic Apparatus for Watering Plants 379--379
Jacques Boyer A Visit to a French Gas Works . . . . . 380--382
Orrin E. Dunlap Curious Engineering Feat at Niagara . . 382--382
J. Carter Beard Double Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous Transmitting Device . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous Balance Adjuster for Vehicles . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous An Improved Water-Current Motor . . . . 384--385
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 405--405
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 406--411
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous The Offer to Build the Panama Canal by
Contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous The Suez Canal Explosion . . . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous High Velocities and Gun Erosion . . . . 394--394
Anonymous The Electrical Value of Wind Power . . . 394--395
Anonymous Another North Pole Balloon Expedition 395--395
Anonymous The Prevention of ``Colds'' . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous The Visiting British Fleet . . . . . . . 396--396
A. Frederick Collins The Long Island Railroad Electrified . . 397--398
Albert Rudin A Visit to the Volcano Poas . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous An Automobile Economy Test . . . . . . . 401--401
Rose O'halloran The Maximum of the Present Solar Cycle 402--403
Anonymous Captive Hippopotami . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous An Automatic Bicycle Pump . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Automatic Switch Thrower for Street
Railways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 405--405
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 425--426
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 426--431
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Turbine Troubles . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Eye Sight Test for Railroad Men . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Robert Whitehead and the Torpedo . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Modern Preservation of Railroad Ties . . 414--415
Dexter W. Allis Fun with the Phonograph . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Frederic H. Betts . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Alfred Gradenwitz An Automatic Cartridge-Counter for
Magazine Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
W. Frank M'clure A New Type of Ore-Unloading Bucket . . . 416--416
Anonymous A Storage-Battery Locomotive . . . . . . 417--418
Alfred Gradenwitz A New Megaphone . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--418
G. L. M. Brown The Orinoco --- a Wasted Waterway . . . 420--422
Anonymous Extraordinary Effect of Water Erosion
Caused by the Assouan Dam . . . . . . . 422--422
Orrin E. Dunlap The Felling of the Concrete Column at
Niagara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Anonymous An Improved Bottle Closure . . . . . . . 424--424
Anonymous Quartz Mill for Dry-Grinding of Ore . . 424--424
Anonymous Machine for Molding Plastic Materials 424--424
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 444--449
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous ``Festina Lente'' . . . . . . . . . . . 434--434
Anonymous Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg on
Speed in Warships . . . . . . . . . . . 434--434
Anonymous Electric Mining in California . . . . . 434--435
Edgar L. Larkin How Much Does the Universe Weigh? . . . 435--435
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Edgar Mels The Photobiography of a Chimney . . . . 436--436
Herbert T. Wade United States National Bureau of
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--437
Anonymous Stern Frames and Brackets for the New
Cunarders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous A Nailless Device for Attaching
Horseshoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
C. Smith Labor-Saving Devices Utilized in the
Manufacture of Tea . . . . . . . . . . . 439--440
W. G. Fitz-Gerald The Earth Pyramids of the Tyrol . . . . 440--441
J. Carter Beard Composite Animals . . . . . . . . . . . 442--442
Charles A. Brassler The Pergamon Marbles in the Pergamon
Museum of Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--444
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 454--455
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 465--471
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Guard Rails in the Subway . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous An All-Day Race between Battleships . . 454--454
Anonymous The Growth of our Railroad System . . . 454--454
Anonymous The Mysteries of the Ocean Bed . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Albert Glyndon The Bacterial Purification of Sewage . . 456--456
Anonymous The New Gasoline Motor Car . . . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous The Flax Industry of To-Day . . . . . . 458--459
Anonymous Progress of the New Jersey Tunnels and
Subways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461
Anonymous The Lifting Power of a Screw Propeller
for Aeronautical Work . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Anonymous A Novel Method of Dog-Shearing . . . . . 462--462
Day Allen Willey The Salmon Fisheries of the Northwest 462--464
Anonymous Depth Gage for Brace Bits . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous An Improved Excavator . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 490--491
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 492--494
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 494--499
Anonymous Retrospect of the Year 1905 . . . . . . 474--475
Anonymous The Roosevelt Irrigation Dam in Arizona 476--477
Arthur Inkersley Rare Shellfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous A Typical American Touring Car . . . . . 480--480
E. Wilson Natural and Artificial Flight . . . . . 481--481
Walter L. Beasley The Koryaks of Siberia and their Great
Whale Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Day Allen Willey The Oil Fields of the West . . . . . . . 484--485
Anonymous The Japanese Navy After the War . . . . 485--488
Anonymous Novelties at the Parisian Toy Exposition 489--489
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous The Wealth Patents --- Patents of
Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 513--514
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 514--514
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 514--514
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 514--519
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 519--519
Anonymous Latest Success of the Marine Turbine . . 502--502
Anonymous The Quest of the Northwest Passage . . . 502--503
Anonymous The Electrical Show at the Garden . . . 503--503
Anonymous The Death of Edward Atkinson . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous The Patent Office . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous Official Trials of the Battleship
``Rhode Island'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--504
William B. Chapman The Gas Producer for Heating Processes 504--504
J. A. Stewart The New Philadelphia Subway . . . . . . 505--506
Anonymous The Turbines of the ``Carmania'' . . . . 508--508
J. Carter Beard Single and Multiple Animals . . . . . . 510--510
Anonymous Is there Life on the Moon? . . . . . . . 511--511
Anonymous A Portable Water Heater . . . . . . . . 512--512
Anonymous A Novel Sketching Device . . . . . . . . 512--512
Anonymous Simple Mail-Box Delivery Device . . . . 512--512
Anonymous Pulling Machine for Oil Wells . . . . . 512--512
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 514--514
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 53--53
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous A Poor Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Peary and the North Pole . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Time for Another Principia . . . . . . . 42--43
Anonymous Burke's Own Account of the Spontaneous
Action of Radium on Gelatin Media . . . 43--43
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Opening of Extensions of the New York
City Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., June, 1905 . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Walter L. Beasley The Navy Wireless School . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Tallest Concrete Chimney Ever
Constructed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Israel Ludlow A New Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Anonymous The Temple of Abu Simbel . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous The Sixth International Automobile Race
for the Bennett Trophy . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Some New Automobile Track Records . . . 47--47
Anonymous Peary's Arctic Ship, the ``Roosevelt'' 47--48
Edward Durant An Electrically-Operated Gyroscope . . . 50--50
Anonymous The ``Whirlpool'' Illusion . . . . . . . 50--50
Alfred Gradenwitz Improved Methods in High-Speed
Chrono-Photography . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous A Gas-Saving Device . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 53--53
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Facing and Trailing Switches . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Below the Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The Second City in the World . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Fastest Long-Distance Railroad Run . . . 62--62
Anonymous Testing the Touring Cars . . . . . . . . 62--62
Alex Del Mar Roman Textile Manufactures . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous The Smallest Working Model of a
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Emile Guarini A Lighthouse of Reinforced Concrete . . 64--64
Anonymous A Novel Gyrating Steam Engine . . . . . 65--65
Herbert T. Wade The New British Yard Standard . . . . . 65--66
Anonymous The Mammoth Cunard Liners . . . . . . . 66--66
Myron I. Fuller Artificial Fountain and Geyser Springs 67--67
Anonymous Completion of Victoria Falls Bridge . . 68--69
A. E. Zahm Atmospheric Friction as an Obstacle in
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C. H. Claudy The Moro Fire Maker . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Harold J. Shepstone Mounting a Monster Sea Elephant . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 72--72
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Sanitation and Subsistence at Panama . . 78--78
Anonymous The First and Last of Its Type . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous The Turbine Steamers on the Canadian
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Anonymous The Future of the Gas-Producer Engine 78--78
Anonymous A New Kind of Fireproof Theater . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
George J. Jones Telephones on Every Street Corner . . . 80--80
Anonymous The Primitive Observatory of Jeypore . . 80--80
Anonymous The Evolution of the Horse . . . . . . . 81--82
Huck Gernsback A New Interrupter . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Five Thousand Degrees of Heat . . . . . 83--84
James G. Fernald A Modern Filtration Plant . . . . . . . 85--86
P. C. Coleman A Unique Locomotive for South Africa . . 86--87
Anonymous Results of the Hill-Climbing Contest at
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Anonymous A New Game of Table Billiards . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous A New Method of Hanging Window Sashes 88--88
Anonymous An Improved Pipe Wrench . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 109--110
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 111--115
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous The Lesson of the ``Bennington''
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Anonymous Mechanical Stokers on Locomotives . . . 98--98
Anonymous Seawanhaka Cup Returns to America . . . 98--98
Anonymous Wear of Car Wheels on Curves . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Protection against Fire Damp . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous Yellow Fever Prevented by Mosquito
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Edgar James Banks How the Ancient Babylonians Drained
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
W. Frank Mc Clure The Improvement of the Ohio Canals . . . 100--100
Orrin E. Dunlap Ice-Making by Electricity . . . . . . . 100--101
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Anonymous Electric Tempering of Tools . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous The Life History of a Coral . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous The New Japanese Battleships . . . . . . 105--106
Enos Brown The Future University of California . . 106--106
Anonymous Canals of Mars Photographed . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The Pygmies of the Congo . . . . . . . . 107--108
Anonymous America's First Long-Distance Motor-Boat
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous The Electric Power Developments at
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Anonymous The Cause of Accidents to Submarine
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Anonymous An Excellent Precedent . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Blood Corpuscles on Mont Blanc . . . . . 118--119
Anonymous A Prize for a Non-Poisonous Diamond
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J. W. Davidson Photographing the Solar Corona . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Charles A. Brassler The Astrolabe of Regiomontanus . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous A Safety Buffer for Automobiles . . . . 120--121
Alfred Gradenwitz The Electrolytic Production of Hydrogen
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Anonymous The New Jersey Tunnels and Subways . . . 122--123
Anonymous A Novel Oil Can . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous The ``Bennington'' Disaster . . . . . . 124--126
Anonymous Electric Power Developments at Niagara
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Anonymous Award of the Glidden Trophy for Touring
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Failure of the Isham Shell . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Rescue of the Fiala--Ziegler Expedition 134--134
Anonymous Bids for the Manhattan Bridge . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Electric Locomotives for the New York
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Anonymous Railroad and other Accidents in the
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Anonymous Bombs for Hail in Switzerland . . . . . 134--135
Alex. Del Mar Inventions of Ancient Rome: Some
Forerunners of Modern Ingenuity . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Enos Brown Hydraulic Mining with Centrifugal Pumps 136--136
Edgar James Banks The Statue of the Sumerian King David 137--137
Alfred Gradenwitz A Hand-Pressure Riveting Machine . . . . 137--137
Henry Mace Payne Aerial Tramways in the Tug River Coal
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Anonymous Measuring the Mechanical Equivalent of
Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous The Rexer Automatic Machine-Gun . . . . 140--141
Day Allen Willey The Building of a Railway Car . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous An Apparatus for Measuring the Earth's
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Harry Dillon Jones A Unique Collection of Rare Birds . . . 143--144
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous An Improved Waiter's Tray . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous Drying Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous New Rotary Valve for Steam Engines . . . 145--145
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Delay in Building the Ambrose Channel 154--154
Anonymous An Old Problem in a New Form . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Russian Army Hydrogen Balloons . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous The Government's New Coal-Testing Plant 154--155
Alton D. Adams Power Sites about Niagara Falls . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Procession of the Giants . . . . . . . . 156--156
J. Irving Tracy Determining the Speed of a Photographic
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Anonymous American Gasoline Railway Motor Cars . . 157--158
Anonymous The Submarine Mine . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Charles C. Johnson The Training of the Modern Shop
Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous The Latest in Cycles . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Charles Frederick Holder The Remoras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
W. S. Hudson The Great Sea Wall at Galveston . . . . 163--164
Anonymous A Curious Bridge Accident . . . . . . . 164--164
Anonymous Opening of the Stone Drydock at the
Boston Navy Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous The Passing of the ``Oregon'' . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Wealth of Our Farms . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Single-Phase Locomotives on
Direct-Current Tracks . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Water Power at High Pressure . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous The Development of the Capitaine
Producer Gas Marine Engine . . . . . . . 5--5
W. R. Gilbert Hybridization of Plants . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Jacques Boyer A New Determination of the Quito Arc of
the Meridian by the French Geodetic
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Anonymous The New Turbine Torpedo of the United
States Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Anonymous Automatic Watering Pot . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Day Allen Willey The Cavité Drydock . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
S. Frank Aaron A Little Friend of the Rose . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous A Simple Door Check . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Improved Water-Tube Boiler . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 216--217
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous A Change of Front . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Some Lessons from the Past at Panama . . 206--206
Anonymous Gatun Dam, the Key to the Canal Problem 206--207
Anonymous Mikkelsen's Arctic Expedition . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous The Moth and the Flame . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Samuel Pierpont Langley . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous The New British Battleship
``Dreadnought'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Herbert T. Wade Standards of Length . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Thaleon Blake C. E A Method of Burning Slack Coal in a
Common Soft-Coal Furnace . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous A Trip Through the Panama Canal in 1915 212--214
Anonymous Sanitation of the Panama Canal Zone . . 214--215
Anonymous A New Detachable Non-Skid Tire Protector 215--215
F. C. Mason Arrowheads Shaped with a Wooden
Implement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Diversion of Niagara River . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Two Important Tunnel Proposals . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Steam Turbine Economy . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous The Shipping Bill in a Nutshell . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Is Lead a Form of Radium? . . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous Blue Light and Electricity as Anæsthetics 227--227
Anonymous The Advantages of Producer Gas for Large
Power Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Value of Commercial Cultures for Legumes 227--227
Anonymous New Armored War Automobiles . . . . . . 228--228
Orrin E. Dunlap Aluminium Transmission Line Across
Niagara Gorge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
F. R. Honey Morning and Evening Stars in 1906 . . . 230--230
Anonymous The New Armored Cruiser ``Tennessee'' 230--231
Randolph I. Geare Recently Discovered Ruins in Rhodesia 231--232
Anonymous The Government's Gasoline Lifeboats . . 233--234
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy in Southwest Africa 234--234
L. Ramakers The Royal Museum of Natural History,
Brussels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
Anonymous An Improved Window Screen . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Telescoping a Car of Dynamite . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Ejector Pump for Driven Wells . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 237--237
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 257--257
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 257--257
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 259--263
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous ``What's in a Name?'' . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous New Water Supply Legislation . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Steel Manufacturers and the Chain Bridge 246--246
Anonymous A Timely Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous The Duration of Lightning Flashes . . . 246--247
Anonymous The Impending Exhaustion of the World's
Iron Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous The Efficiency of the Gas Engine . . . . 247--248
Anonymous Electric Power Developments at Niagara
Falls. --- III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Anonymous Mounting the 12-Inch Guns of the
``Connecticut'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Anonymous The New Water Supply for New York City 250--251
Anonymous The Diamond Shoals Lighthouse . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Some Recent Foreign Flying Machines . . 252--254
Frank C. Perkins A New French Compound Locomotive . . . . 254--254
Day Allen Willey How Shingles are Made . . . . . . . . . 254--256
Anonymous Air Box for Stoves . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Apparatus for Marking Sunken Vessels . . 256--256
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 256--257
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1906 . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 276--279
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Earthquakes and Dam Construction at
Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous A Quart Measure in a Pint Pot . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous What are Atoms, Electrons, and Ions? . . 266--266
Anonymous Proposed Bill for the Extension of
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous People Who Have Eaten Books . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Electrical Music . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
Anonymous A Simple and Speedy Motor Sleigh . . . . 269--270
Anonymous The New Cunarders . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
L. Ramakers Boring Out Columns in Solid Rock . . . . 272--272
Jacques Boyer Artistic French Taxidermy . . . . . . . 272--274
Anonymous New Type of Armor-Piercing Shell . . . . 274--274
C. Metcalf A Puzzling Bit of Foundry Work . . . . . 274--275
Anonymous The Walschaert Valve on American
Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 293--293
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 294--299
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous The Behring Sea Tunnel . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Seven-Hundred-Mile Electric Transmission 282--282
Anonymous Cheap Alcohol for Motors . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous A Practical Application of the Aversion
of Eels from Light . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous The Chances of Living in a Modern Battle 282--282
Anonymous An Open Letter to the Mayor . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous The Modern Philosopher's Stone . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous A New Army Signaling Apparatus . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous A Combined Long and Short Range
Automobile Searchlight . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Pennsylvania Railroad's Extension to New
York and Long Island --- The Long Island
City Power Station --- I . . . . . . . . 285--287
Harry Dillon Jones How Artificial Teeth are Made . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Ants and Their Ways . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Alfred Gradenwitz Electric Traction on the Simplon Railway 290--290
Anonymous The Wright Aeroplane and Its
Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Anonymous An Exhaust Valve for Locomotives . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Cabinet for Bread Making . . . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 293--294
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 313--319
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous More Light on Turbine Economy . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Effects of Snow on the Third Rail . . . 302--302
Anonymous Combined Floating and Stationary Power
Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Comparison of Heavy Electric and Steam
Locomotive Performance . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous The Organization of the Submarine
Flotilla of the British Fleet . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous The Economics of New York's Refuse
Destructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Proposed New York, Brockton, and Boston
Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Recent Balloon Ascensions in the
Vicinity of New York . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
W. Frank M'clure A Railway Mail Catcher . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Alfred Gradenwitz An Apparatus for Recording the
Oscillations of Lighthouse Towers . . . 304--304
Anonymous A Pneumatic Deck-Calking Tool . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous 100-Horse-Power Suction-Gas-Propelled
Boat on the River Rhine . . . . . . . . 305--306
Anonymous Motor Roller Skates . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous An Improved Engine Indicator . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous A Novel Profile Tracer . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous How Easter Eggs are Made by the Thousand 308--309
Allen Day The Inundation of the Salton Basin by
the Colorado River and How It Was Caused 310--312
Edgar James Banks Letter Writing Five Thousand Years Ago 312--312
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 332--334
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 334--339
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous International Protection of Niagara
Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous The English Channel Tunnel . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Electric Equipment of a Great Railroad 322--322
Anonymous Uniformity in Battleships . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous The Development of Aerial Navigation for
Military Purposes in Europe . . . . . . 322--323
L. H. Yates Canals and Railways in India . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Mosquito Extermination . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous The Bell Tetrahedral Kite in Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Armor Plate --- The Last Answer of the
Banker to the Burglar . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous An Improved form of Automatic Carbureter 326--326
George Wharton James The Overflow of the Colorado River and
the Salton Sea --- II . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous Vesuvius: Past and Present . . . . . . . 330--331
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 332--332
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 352--354
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 355--359
Anonymous Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Earthquake-Proof Construction . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Subway Ventilation by Air Valves . . . . 342--342
Anonymous The ``Kearsarge'' Disaster . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous The Relation between Pain and
Inflammation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Feeling the Earth's Pulse . . . . . . . 344--345
Anonymous Electrical Equipment of the Long Island
City Power Station . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Anonymous San Francisco and Its Catastrophe . . . 347--347
Anonymous Meerschaum and Its Manufacture into
Pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Anonymous Some Novel Uses of Electricity . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Franklin's Scientific Work . . . . . . . 350--351
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 375--379
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Courage and Sympathy in Disaster . . . . 362--362
Anonymous An Opinion from Panama . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous Trial Speed and Sea Speed . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous A Retrograde Step . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous Prof. Sir George H. Darwin . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous The Proposed Amendment to the Trade-Mark
Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous The Whistling Vibration of a Drop . . . 363--363
Marcus Benjamin The National Academy of Sciences . . . . 363--363
Day Allen Willey The Automatic Conveyer in Lumbering . . 364--365
Anonymous The Electric Locomotives of New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad . . . . 365--365
Anonymous A New Method of Heating Switches . . . . 365--366
Anonymous The Hendrick Hudson Memorial Bridge . . 366--366
C. Field Curiosities of Naval Architecture ---
Round Ships and Globular Vessels . . . . 368--369
A. W. Forstall How to Construct an Experimental
Polyphase Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Alfred Gradenwitz The Sense of Smell in Snails . . . . . . 371--371
William Dale A Machine for Picking Cotton . . . . . . 371--372
Anonymous A Convenient Drafting Instrument . . . . 372--372
Anonymous A Novel Toy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Retaining Device for Barrels . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Book Purse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 401--406
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 405--405
Anonymous A Fuel Efficiency Test of Automobiles 382--382
Anonymous Prevention and Mastery of Disease . . . 382--382
Anonymous Fireproof Qualities of Reinforced
Concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous The Government as a Cement Manufacturer 382--383
H. A. Crafts Some Features of the Great Earthquake 383--383
Anonymous The Advantages and Limitations of
Reinforced Concrete . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Typical Systems of Reinforced Concrete
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--386
Anonymous Concreting the Jerome Park Reservoir . . 386--387
Anonymous The Impinging Flame in Cement Burning 387--387
Anonymous Concrete Mixing Machinery . . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous Concrete Block Machines . . . . . . . . 390--391
Anonymous Some Views and Lessons of the San
Francisco Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . 392--394
Anonymous A Stairway of Reinforced Concrete . . . 394--394
Anonymous The Ingalls Building --- The Largest
Concrete Office Building in the World 394--395
Orrin E. Dunlap A Great Concrete Retaining Wall . . . . 395--396
Anonymous The Artistic Possibilities of Cement . . 396--396
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
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Anonymous Future of Direct-Current Traction . . . 22--22
Anonymous Designing the Steam Turbine . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Automobile in 1906 . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous Progress with the Electric Automobile 23--23
K. L. Smith Increasing Demand for the Mississippi
Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Crossing the Continent by Automobile . . 24--26
Anonymous A Motor Equipment for Bicycles . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous A Light Four-Passenger Runabout . . . . 26--26
Anonymous A Light and Speedy Runabout . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous A Four-Cylinder Air-Cooled Runabout . . 27--27
Anonymous The Frayer--Miller Six-Cylinder
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Anonymous The Marmon Air-Cooled Touring Car . . . 28--28
Anonymous A Revolving-Cylinder Motor Car . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous A New Four-Cylinder Air-Cooled Motor and
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Anonymous The Cadillac Single-Cylinder Light
Touring Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous The Oldsmobile Two-Cycle and Four-Cycle
Touring Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous A Detachable Limousine Touring Car . . . 31--31
Anonymous The Peerless 30-Horse-Power Touring Car 31--31
Anonymous High-Powered American Touring Cars . . . 32--32
Anonymous A Novel 4-Cylinder Touring Car . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous A Silent Non-Adjustable Ball Bearing . . 34--34
Anonymous Automobile Novelties and Improvements 36--36
Anonymous Danger Signs for Automobilists . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Electric Light for Closed Carriages . . 36--36
Anonymous New Spring Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous A Dashboard Ignition Outfit . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous An Improved Universal Joint . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Wheel Clutch for Use with a Solid Rear
Axle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous The Thomas Safety Ratchet Device . . . . 38--40
Anonymous Automobile Shock-Absorbers . . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous The Franklin Air-Cooled Cars . . . . . . 40--40
Alfred Gradenwitz Snow Sculptures . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Emile Guarini Electricity in Hospitals . . . . . . . . 44--46
Alfred Gradenwitz A New Type of Portable Wireless
Telegraph Station . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous A Clever Mechanical and Electrical
Automaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 49--49
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 421--421
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 422--422
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 422--427
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Panama Canal and the Tehuantepec
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Anonymous Superheated Steam in Railway Service . . 410--410
Anonymous Rebuilding the Russian Navy . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous The Discovery of the Ancient Hebrew
Temple of Onias in Egypt . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Exports of Agricultural Products . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Electricity for Canals . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Lord Kelvin's Conception of an Atom . . 411--411
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Gasoline Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
A. Frederick Collins A New Machine for Engraving Steel Plates 412--412
Anonymous The Winning Cars in the Automobile Club
of America's Two-Gallon Fuel Efficiency
Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous A Thermo-Electric Pyrometer of Low
Resistance and Compensator . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous The Art of Piano Making --- I . . . . . 416--418
Edgar L. Larkin Earthquake Observations . . . . . . . . 418--418
Arthur Inkersley Effects of the Earthquake and Fire upon
the City of San Francisco and Its
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--420
Anonymous An Improved Adjustable Clutch . . . . . 420--420
Anonymous An Improved Hand-Operated Meat Press . . 420--420
Anonymous Water-Feed Regulator with Automatic
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 421--421
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 441--441
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 442--442
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 442--443
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Conditions of the Rapid Transit Tunnel 430--430
Anonymous Efficiency of the American Locomotive 430--430
Anonymous Directed Wireless Telegraph Messages . . 430--431
Anonymous The Manufacture of Turpentine . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous A New and Cheap Process for Generating
Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous A Russian Gasoline--Electric Train . . . 431--431
Anonymous The Art of Piano Making --- II . . . . . 432--435
Anonymous An Automobile School . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Anonymous The Lorimer Automatic Telephone . . . . 437--438
Anonymous Pennsylvania Railroad's Terminal
Station, New York City . . . . . . . . . 438--439
Anonymous The Laocoön Group as it Ought to be . . . 439--439
Anonymous The New Vickers--Maxim 12-Inch
Breech-Loading Wire-Wound Gun . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 441--441
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--455
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 461--461
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 461--466
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous The Rapid Transit East River Tunnel
Defects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous Present Conditions at Panama . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous Recent Experiments in the Preservation
of Meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous Denatured Alcohol Freed from Taxation 450--450
Anonymous A New Compound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous A Unique Vacuum Apparatus . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Lecture-Room Boomerang . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous The Brierley Fog-Signaling Apparatus for
Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Anonymous The Excavation for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Station, New York . . . . . . . 453--454
Anonymous Apparatus for Viewing Diffraction Color
Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Alfred Gradenwitz Water Sterilization . . . . . . . . . . 456--458
Charles Frederick Holder Through a Window of the Sea . . . . . . 458--459
Anonymous Thomas A. Edison Automobiling to the
South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 461--461
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--475
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 481--482
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 483--487
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous The San Francisco Earthquake and the
Senate Canal Committee . . . . . . . . . 470--470
Anonymous Strength of the Japanese Navy . . . . . 470--470
Anonymous Denaturized Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . 470--470
Anonymous Some Facts about Portland Cement . . . . 470--471
Anonymous Ehrlich's Remarkable Studies of Cancer
in Mice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Concrete: Its Rise and Its Applications 471--471
Anonymous Fluid Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Resistance of the Human Body to
Automobile Accidents . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Why Do Stars Seem Rayed? . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous The Reconstructed Christie Racer and its
Record at the Automobile Carnival . . . 472--472
Anonymous Union Pacific Motor Car No. 7 . . . . . 472--473
Anonymous The Earthquake and the Tracks of a
Trolley Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Fireproofing at San Francisco . . . . . 473--474
Emile Guarini Mechanical Compression of the Ground in
the Construction of Foundations . . . . 476--477
Day Allen Willey The Snag Boats of the South . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous Power Transmission Line of the Long
Island Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous A Novel Reflecting Lamp Globe . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous Triple Gage, Butt Gage, and Tool Holder 480--480
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 501--501
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 501--502
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 502--507
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Steel and Wooden Cars in the Subway Fire 490--490
Anonymous Ocean Races for Small Boats . . . . . . 490--490
Anonymous A Decade of Wireless Telegraphy . . . . 490--491
Charles Richards Dodge The Need of a Pure-Food Law . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous The British Naval Programme for 1906 . . 491--491
Anonymous Steam Jacketing Investigations . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Dried Milk --- a New Process . . . . . . 492--492
Alfred Gradenwitz The Magic Sphere --- an Illusion
Apparatus in Which Curious Optical
Effects are Produced by Centrifugal
Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous The Hot-Air Boiler . . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous The Latest and Largest Steamship . . . . 496--498
Anonymous European Earthquake Recorders . . . . . 498--499
Arthur F. Bresler Tempered Ductile Metals . . . . . . . . 500--500
Anonymous Wellman's Motor Bicycle Sled . . . . . . 500--500
Anonymous A Simple Adding Machine . . . . . . . . 501--501
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 501--501
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 521--521
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 522--523
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 523--527
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 527--527
Anonymous Present Condition of the Assouan Dam . . 510--510
Anonymous Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph
Troubles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
Anonymous The Influence of Increased Barometric
Pressure on the Human Body . . . . . . . 510--511
Henry Hale The Industrial Uses and Value of Alcohol 511--511
Anonymous Automobile Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512
Anonymous Artificial Regulation of Atmospheric
Humidity and Temperature . . . . . . . . 512--513
Gustave Michaud A Chemical Trick . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--513
Edwin J. Prindle The Art of Inventing . . . . . . . . . . 513--515
Anonymous A One-Hundred-Ton Derrick Crane for
Fitting out Vessels . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Anonymous A Locomotive Boiler Explosion . . . . . 515--516
Jacques Boyer French Candle Making . . . . . . . . . . 516--518
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 518--518
Anonymous Device for Moving Pump Piston Rods . . . 518--518
Anonymous Improved Scaffolding . . . . . . . . . . 518--519
Anonymous An Improved Non-Skidding Tire . . . . . 519--519
Anonymous A New Insulator Pin . . . . . . . . . . 519--519
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 519--521
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 521--521
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 531--531
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--535
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 540--540
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 540--540
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 540--544
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 547--547
Anonymous A Lock Canal for Panama . . . . . . . . 530--530
Anonymous Redwood in the San Francisco Fire . . . 530--530
Anonymous Comparison of Western Irrigation
Reservoirs and the New Croton Dam . . . 530--530
Anonymous Seeds and Suspended Animation . . . . . 530--530
Anonymous Orientation of Carrier Pigeons . . . . . 531--531
Anonymous The ``Italia'' Airship . . . . . . . . . 532--532
Alfred Gradenwitz The Laying of a 10,000-Volt Cable . . . 532--533
Walter L. Beasley Making the Flags of our Warships . . . . 533--534
Charles Wiles How Glaciers are Studied . . . . . . . . 534--535
Day Allen Willey Oil Fuel on Southwestern Railroads . . . 536--536
Anonymous Supplying New York With Bluefish . . . . 537--538
D. L. Beardsley An Electrolytic Wireless Receiver . . . 538--538
Anonymous Replacing the Broadway Drawbridge with a
New Span . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--539
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 540--540
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 77--78
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Pipe Galleries in the New Subway . . . . 66--66
Anonymous We Should Use the Metric System . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Alternative Schemes for the Panama Canal 66--66
Anonymous Electro-Technical Industries . . . . . . 66--67
Arthur H. J. Keane Some Costly Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Day Allen Willey Floating Depot for Coaling Warships . . 68--68
Anonymous Proposed Excavation of the Panama Canal
by Floating Dredges . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
S. M. Howell A Rational Method of Cooling Gas-Engine
Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Charles Richards Dodge Bromelia Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous A Chair Designed for the Prevention of
Seasickness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous A New Composing Machine . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Historical Photograph from the Sea of
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--76
Anonymous Improved Cushion Sole for Shoes . . . . 76--76
Anonymous An Improved Form of Telephone Instrument 76--76
Anonymous Clothes-Line Support . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Adjustable Window Ventilator . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 78--78
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Final Completion of the Croton Reservoir 86--86
Anonymous Shipbuilding in the United States . . . 86--86
Anonymous Army Transport and the Merchant Marine 86--86
Anonymous Two Centuries after Franklin . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Improvements Noted at the Automobile
Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The Ungentle Art of Burglary . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous A New and Interesting overhead Traveling
Gear for Expediting Construction in
Shipyards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Schlick's Marine Gyroscope in Use . . . 90--90
A. Frederick Collins High-Potential Discharges . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous The Aero Club of America's Exhibit of
Aeronautical Apparatus . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Changes and Improvements in the Edison
Nickel-Iron Storage Cell . . . . . . . . 94--94
Rudolf Schneider The ``Roman Ordnance'' at the Saalburg 95--96
Anonymous Improved Carrier for Barrels . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous A Novel Gun Attachment . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Corn Harvester and Husker . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous A Canal by Lake and Locks . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Does a Water Famine Threaten New York
City? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous New Conceptions in Astronomy . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous The Voyage of the ``Discovery'' . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Alfred Gradenwitz Novel Methods of Determining the Amount
of Atmospheric Dust . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous The Bates Plan for Lock and Lake Canal
at Panama --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
A. Frederick Collins Braun's New Method of Directing Wireless
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
William G. Fitz Gerald The Soldier--Mountaineers of Italy . . . 111--111
Anonymous Giant Creatures of Prehistoric Times . . 113--114
Alfred Gradenwitz Refrigeration with Electric Motive Power 114--114
Anonymous New Automobile Speed Records in Florida 115--115
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 136--137
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous State Commission on New York Water
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous The Delay of the Manhattan Bridge . . . 126--126
Anonymous On a Tour of the Shops . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Alton D. Adams Proposed Dam for Lake Erie . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Prize for Electric Device . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., January, 1906 . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous An American Modification of the Parsons
Steam Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous The Motor Skate --- a New Thousand
League Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
L. Ramakers The Helicopt\`ere Santos-Dumont's Latest
Flying Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
H. B. Dailey A Convenient Hydrogen Generator . . . . 130--130
Day Allen Willey Ore-Unloading by Machinery . . . . . . . 131--132
Anonymous Final Races at the Ormond Automobile
Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Alfred Gradenwitz Moving a German Lighthouse . . . . . . . 134--134
Charles Frederick Holder Remarkable Phosphorescent Animals . . . 135--136
Anonymous An Improved Annunciator . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 158--159
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 160--163
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Speed and Safety in Railroad Travel . . 146--146
Anonymous Superheat and Boiler Pressures . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Foreshore Protection with Chain-Cable
Groynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Electrifying the St. Clair Tunnel . . . 146--146
Anonymous The Electric Fusion of Glass . . . . . . 146--147
Anonymous Some Recent Discoveries in Oceanography 147--147
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
A. Frederick Collins Mercury Arc Rectifier for Charging
Storage Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
L. Ramakers The Tunnel Under the Seine River . . . . 149--150
Anonymous The Size of Molecules . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Making Valentines by the Million . . . . 152--153
Anonymous The Total Solar Eclipse of 1905 . . . . 153--154
Anonymous The Human Body as a Wireless Telegraph
Transmitter and Receiver . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous A Novelty in Watch Dials . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous A Curious Arched Tree . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous The ``Auto-Carte'' . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Thomas R. Baker A Simple Dynamometer for School
Gymnasium Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous An Improved Rail Joint . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Wheel-Blocking Safety Device for
Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 178--183
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous The Ship Subsidy Bill . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous The ``Dreadnought'' . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Evolution of Heat from Radium . . . . . 166--166
Hugo De Vries Experimental Evolution . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
H. A. Crafts Reinforced Concrete on the Pacific Coast 168--169
Anonymous A Gravity Cable Railroad in the Swiss
Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous Detonation of Submarine Mines by Means
of Sound Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Day Allen Willey Sand Waves and Their Work . . . . . . . 172--174
G. Luxton An Ice Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous The Inhalatorium, a New Medical
Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Training Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Combination Chair and Life Preserver . . 176--176
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 178--178
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 198--199
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 200--203
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous For a High-Level Lock Canal . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous The Trench Method of Tunnel Construction 186--186
Anonymous Distillation of Gold . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Ernest Archdeacon Sixty Miles an Hour on the Water . . . . 187--187
William M. Meacham Hydroplane Boats: Latest Type of
High-Speed Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Anonymous A Motor Paddle Wheel for Small Boats . . 189--189
Anonymous The ``Motogodille'' A Motor Device for
Propelling Small Boats . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Anonymous Speed and Energy Loss of Projectiles in
Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Anonymous A Triple-Screw Motor Torpedo Boat . . . 190--190
Anonymous Light Power Boats at the Sportsmen's
Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous A Typical Two-Cycle Marine Motor . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Electric Launch with Recharging
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous The New ``Speedway'' Marine Engine . . . 192--192
Anonymous A Sixteen-Cylinder Motor-Boat Engine of
180 Horse-Power . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Thomas J. Fay and
E. E A Serviceable Twin-Screw Motor Boat . . 193--194
Anonymous Improvements in Spark Coil Construction 194--194
Anonymous Vibrationless Electric Light Sets for
Yachts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Alfred Gradenwitz Artificial Sea Baths . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Count Von Zeppelin's Dirigible Airship 195--196
Emile Guarini A Novel Tent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous How Snakes Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 14--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Volcanic Activity and Radium . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The Capture of a Live Okapi . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous A New Blowpipe Welding Process . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The Vagaries of Wells . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Nerve Impulses and Their Propagation . . 4--4
Anonymous Statistics of Turbine-Propelled Vessels,
May 1, 1906 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous A Case of Alleged Reasoning in a Dog . . 5--5
Anonymous Japanese Earthquake Theories . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous How England Disposes of Old Ships . . . 5--5
Frederick R. Honey The Visible Heavens . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
A. Frederick Collins An Electro-Mechanical Coin Counting and
Wrapping Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Charles Frederick Holder The Tameness of Wild Animals . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Wellman's Airship for his North Polar
Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Anonymous The Peterborough Lift-Lock of the Trent
Valley Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous From the Tobacco Leaf to the Cigar . . . 10--13
Anonymous A Mechanical Prizefighter . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous An Improved Turbine . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Improved Rail Bond . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 180--182
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Lack of Progress on the Manhattan Bridge 170--170
Anonymous World's Record for United States Army
Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous The Next Challenger for ``America's''
Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous The Greatest Gem Mine in the World . . . 170--170
Anonymous Adulteration of Cereal Breakfast Foods 170--170
Anonymous Searching for the Real Origin of Species 171--171
Waldon Fawcett A Motor Ambulance for the United States
Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Ben Winslow Sanitation of the City of Washington.
--- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Anonymous An Office Building 612 Feet Tall --- the
Loftiest Masonry Structure in the World 174--174
S. Leonard Bastin The Marvels of Plant Retardation . . . . 176--177
Anonymous The Murray Automatic Page-Printing
Telegraph --- Its History and Its
Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Safety Stop Valve . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous An Improved Animal Trap . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous A Portable Head Gate . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Woodworker's Clamp . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 197--197
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Stupendous Traffic of Greater New York 186--186
Anonymous The Worst Enemy of the Good Roads
Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Erosion --- The Last Problem for the
Gunmaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
W. R. Gerard The ``Virgina'' Potato . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous A New Airship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Photograph of the ``Pennsylvania'' . . . 187--187
Anonymous Road Tarring in France . . . . . . . . . 188--190
Thomas Parker Hot-Water Supplies to Towns . . . . . . 190--190
D. A. Willey Gila Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Alfred Gradenwitz Modern Bell Casting . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
Anonymous The Growth of Our Navy Since the War . . 194--195
Anonymous A Simple Canceling Machine . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Support for Fire Hose . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Implement for Plowing or Cultivating
Around Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Means for Automatically Balancing
Rotating Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 197--197
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 219--223
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Growth of American Universities . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Gasoline Engines and the Torpedo Boat 206--206
Anonymous North Tube of Hudson River Tunnel
Completed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Steel Passenger Cars for Trunk Railroads 206--206
Anonymous James Dredge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
W. F. Cleveland The Advantages of Crank Axles for
Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Elizabeth C. Sprague Investigating the Nutritive Value of
Meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous The Alcohol Smugglers of Paris . . . . . 208--209
Frederick R. Honey How a Planet is Weighed . . . . . . . . 210--210
Day Allen Willey The Pioneers of the Swiss Army . . . . . 212--212
W. D. Graves A Peculiar Rupture . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
Anonymous A Mantel Made of Cigar Boxes . . . . . . 213--213
W. F. Miners A Curious Accident to a Grain Elevator 213--213
Lawrence Lewis The Minnequa Works of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
Anonymous The Lodge--Muirhead Portable Wireless
Telegraph Plant for Military Purposes 216--216
Anonymous The Mathushek Piano . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 218--218
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 236--239
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Agriculture the True Source of our
Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous A Suggested Cure of Gun Erosion . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony in the
Japanese Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous The Erection of the Quebec Bridge . . . 228--228
Charles H. Coar An Improved Ozone Generator . . . . . . 229--230
Carl L. Gruppen A Home-Made Equatorial Mounting for
Telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Machines in the Elimination Race for the
Vanderbilt Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--234
Anonymous Some Remarkable Results with
Armor-Piercing Shells . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous An Improved Window Raising and Locking
Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous An Improved Cutter Head . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 252--255
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Huge Proportions of the New Government
Irrigation Dams . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous Success of the Independent Railway Motor
Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous The Caliber of a Gun . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous A New Problem and Its Solution . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous A New Process for the Commercial
Utilization of Atmospheric Nitrogen . . 242--243
Anonymous Carbon Dioxide Pockets in France . . . . 243--243
Anonymous How to Study Industrial Chemistry . . . 243--243
Anonymous Action of Radium on Organisms . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous A New Wireless Telephone . . . . . . . . 243--243
Orrin E. Dunlap A New 30,000-Horse-Power Plant at
Niagara Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Anonymous Archdeacon's Air-Propelled Motor Bicycle 245--246
Anonymous Automatic Device for Turning off the Gas 246--246
Randolph I. Geare Masks of Classic and Modern Times, --- I 248--250
Anonymous The ``R. C. Rickmers'' --- The Largest
Sailing Ship Afloat . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
M. Alger The Birkeland--Eyde Process and the
Artificial Production of Nitrates from
the Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 269--269
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 270--275
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous A Forecast and Its Fulfillment . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous New Method of River Tunneling . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Growing Prosperity in Agriculture . . . 258--258
Anonymous What is the Interior Condition of the
Earth? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Anonymous Results of the First International
Balloon Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Levavasseur's Gliding Boat . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Randolph I. Geare Masks of Classic and Modern Times --- II 260--261
Arthur B. Turner The Harvest Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
L. H. Yates The New Route to Ireland . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous The Winning Foreign Machines in the
Third International Race for the
Vanderbilt Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
Anonymous The Teltow Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Progress of the New York Central
Terminal Improvements . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 289--290
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 291--295
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous A 21$ 1 / 2 $-Knot Battleship . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Completion of the Pennsylvania Double
Tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Panama Canal to be Built by Contract . . 278--278
Anonymous The Status of the Liquid Barretter . . . 278--279
Anonymous Something about Cereal Breakfast Foods 279--279
Hugo Erichsen The Need and the Testing of Pure Drugs 280--281
Anonymous A Retrospect of the Vanderbilt Cup Race 281--282
Kittredge Wheeler The Canadian Pacific Railway Company's
Irrigation Project . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Obed C. Billman An Electric Powderless, Smokeless,
Flashless, and Soundless Gun . . . . . . 286--286
Charles Frederick Holder Photographing a Devil Fish --- The
Chameleon of the Sea . . . . . . . . . . 286--288
Anonymous Apparatus for Mixing Different Grades of
Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous A New Method of Propelling a Ship . . . 288--288
Anonymous Means for Facilitating the Cleansing of
Street Catch Basins . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Sound Deflector for Pianos . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 290--290
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 310--315
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Our Vast Railroad System . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous A Brilliant Navy Yard Success . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous The Shape of the Sun . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Arthur Inkersley Recovering Metals Melted in the San
Francisco Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Sir Richard Tangye . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous The First International Balloon Race . . 300--301
Anonymous The Battleships ``Dreadnought'' and
``South Carolina'' . . . . . . . . . . . 303--306
C. Francis Jenkins A Motor that Runs by Lightning . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Two Recent Fire-Fighting Inventions . . 307--308
Anonymous Motor Car for Whitewashing Railroad
Tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Anonymous A Huge Arched Yucca Tree . . . . . . . . 308--308
Frank C. Perkins A Novel Electrical Medical Treatment . . 308--308
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 329--329
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 330--335
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous The Latest Marine Turbine Success . . . 318--318
Anonymous ``Caliber'' and ``Bore'' . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous The Carnegie Institution Magnetic Survey 318--318
Anonymous Roads for Automobiles . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Successful Flight of Santos Dumont's
Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
A. Frederick Collins The International Wireless Conference 319--319
Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Manufacture of Iron in China . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous The 25$ 1 / 4 $-Knot Cunard Liner
``Mauretania'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320
Day Allen Willey Sugar Making in Cuba . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Anonymous The Creation of a Star . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Walter L. Beasley The Iona Naval Magazine --- I . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Railway Signaling Device . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous An Improved Saw-Set . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Anonymous Street Cleaner's Truck . . . . . . . . . 328--328
Anonymous A Novel Cigar Lighter . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 329--329
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 351--355
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous The Electric Railroad Wreck at Atlantic
City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Single-Phase Electric Road Between
Baltimore and the National Capital . . . 338--338
Anonymous New Rating of the World's Fleets . . . . 338--339
Anonymous A French ``Jungle'' . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Tulare Lake Basin Again Filling Up . . . 339--339
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous The New Dueling School in Paris . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Comparison of a Turbine and a
Reciprocating Engine for the United
States Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Alfred Gradenwitz The Parseval Dirigible Airship . . . . . 341--342
William Henry Perrin The Story of the Discovery of the First
Aniline Dye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
Walter L. Beasley The Iona Naval Magazine --- II . . . . . 343--344
Harold J. Shepstone Carl Hagenbeck's Novel Zoological Park 345--346
A. Frederick Collins A New Steel-Plate Printing and Embossing
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Isaac F. Marcosson An Aid to Modern Business . . . . . . . 348--349
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 33--34
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 36--39
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Anonymous Tunneling by the Freezing Method under
the East River . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Government as an Armor-Plate
Manufacturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Canadian Commission's Report on the
Electric Smelting of Iron Ores . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous A New Algol Variable . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
William H. Bale Summer Meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Sense of Color in Animals . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
C. H. Claudy A Machine that Smokes Cigars . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous The Galleys of Lake Nemi . . . . . . . . 25--26
William G. Fitz Gerald A City of Salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous A Railroad Collision as a Form of
Amusement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous The Meredith Cigar-Vending Machine . . . 31--31
Anonymous Brake Mechanism for Vehicles . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous An Improved Track-Sanding Device . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Folding Crib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous An Improved Parallel Ruler . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 370--374
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Drawbridge Protection . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous The Behr Mono-Rail in Brooklyn . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Exports and Imports Under the New
Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Cape to Cairo by Rail, River, and Lake 358--359
Anonymous Peary's ``Farthest North'' . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Breakfast Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous The Number of Words and Letters in the
Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Harold J. Shepstone A Prehistoric Burial Ground . . . . . . 360--361
Anonymous The Cape to Cairo Railroad . . . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous Progress of Aeronautics in France . . . 363--364
W. G. Fitz Gerald The Turtle Trade of the West Indies . . 365--366
George J. Jones Unveiling Statues by Electricity . . . . 366--366
Anonymous A New Remedy for Seasickness . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous A Gasoline-Propelled Road Roller . . . . 367--367
Anonymous An Ox-Shoeing Shop in the Woods . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Novel Door Hinge and Check . . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous An Improved Milking Machine . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 389--389
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 390--395
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous The Congestion at the Patent Office . . 378--378
Anonymous Extraordinary Conditions in the Steel
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous Growth of the Salton Sea Arrested . . . 378--378
Anonymous Gun Trials of the ``Dreadnought'' . . . 378--378
Anonymous The Size of Ocean Waves . . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous Progress of the Pennsylvania East River
Tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous Santos Dumont's Latest Flight . . . . . 378--379
Helen Lukens Gaut What Do the Birds Eat? . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
George J. Jones Cooking without Fire . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Gustave Michaud A Curious Chemical Experiment . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous A New Apparatus for the Coaling of
Warships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Blasting Out a Reef in New York Harbor 382--382
Frederic R. Honey The Opposition of Mars in 1907 . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Railway Accidents and Surgery . . . . . 383--385
Day Allen Willey Effects of the Recent Hurricane at
Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Alfred Gradenwitz Soft Crystals Showing Apparent Life . . 387--387
Anonymous A Unique Non-Refillable Bottle . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous An Improved Try-Square . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Safety Can Lifter . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 390--390
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 411--415
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous The President at Panama . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Japan Launches a Larger ``Dreadnought'' 398--398
Anonymous Recent Aeronautic Experiments in France 398--398
Anonymous English Aeroplane Prizes . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Peat in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous The First Machine for the Commercial
Production of Window Glass by the Sheet
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous The Interior Construction of a Piano
Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--403
Anonymous Present Conditions at Panama . . . . . . 403--405
Anonymous Beautifying the Roadbed by Sodding . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Ancestors of the Elephant . . . . . 406--407
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous An Improved Tie-Bar . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Pollen-Collecting Device . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 433--433
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 433--433
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 434--439
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Bridging the Hudson River . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Safeguards for the Panama Canal Locks 418--418
Anonymous Airships in the French Army . . . . . . 418--419
William H. Hale National Academy of Sciences . . . . . . 419--419
H. R. Christy Points about Needles . . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Jacques Boyer The Pharmaceutical Industry of France 420--423
Anonymous The De Pluvy Diving Dress . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Some Novel Electric Labor-Saving Devices 424--424
Day Allen Willey A Pocket-Knife Artist . . . . . . . . . 425--425
Anonymous Oceanographic Museum of Monaco . . . . . 427--427
C. Field Weapons Weird and Wonderful . . . . . . 428--430
Alfred Gradenwitz The Microphotoscope --- an Apparatus for
Examining Minute Maps . . . . . . . . . 430--430
B. S. Bowdish Birds of an Ocean Island . . . . . . . . 431--432
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 433--433
Anonymous The Progress of the Hollow Concrete
Block Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--433
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 453--454
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 454--458
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Genesis of the First Successful
Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--442
Anonymous The Seventh Annual Show of the
Automobile Club of America . . . . . . . 442--443
Anonymous The Patent Office in 1906 . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Stuart Stevens Scott Righting a Capsized Lighthouse Caisson 444--444
Robert Grimshaw Automatic Apparatus for Selling Postage
Stamps, Post Cards, and Newspapers . . . 445--446
Mary Proctor Total Eclipse of the Sun in January,
1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous The Motive Power of a 25 $ 1 / 4 $ Knots
Liner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous The Second Annual Exhibition of the Aero
Club of America . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--449
A. Frederick Collins The Poulsen Selective System of Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
G. G. Copp A Disease Which Threatens the American
Chestnut Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Gage for Marking Window Casements . . . 452--452
Anonymous A Collapsible Ash-Pan . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous An Improved Hand Camera . . . . . . . . 452--453
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 475--479
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 476--479
Anonymous Plans of our 20,000-Ton Battleship . . . 462--462
Anonymous Sandy Hook Coast Defenses . . . . . . . 462--463
Randolph Bolling Notes on Recharging Oxygen Gas Tanks . . 463--463
Anonymous Long-Distance Ocean Race for Motor Boats 463--463
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Opening of the New Grand Central
Temporary Station . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Herrmann Albrecht The German Marine Research Boat
``Planet'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Anonymous The Rebuilding of the Campanile at
Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Anonymous Controlling the Colorado River and
Salton Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--469
Anonymous Recent Airship and Aeroplane Experiments
in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472
Anonymous A New Hand-Propelled Automobile for
Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Anonymous A New Form of Railway Rolling Stock
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Anonymous Lubricator for Steam Engine Cylinders 472--472
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 492--492
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 493--498
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Anonymous Present Condition of the New York
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Anonymous The President's Message on the Panama
Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous Catechism of a Scientist . . . . . . . . 483--483
Marous Benjamin William Henry Welch . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous The ``Unilens'' a Novel Form of
Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--484
Jacques Boyer The New Lusol Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Paul H. Woodruff A Simple Experimental Dynamo . . . . . . 485--486
Anonymous The Solution of New York's
transportation problem . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Waldon Fawcett The Apparatus of the United States
Life-Saving Service . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Anonymous Increasing the Power of a Talking
Machine by Means of Compressed Air . . . 490--490
Percy Collins Eye-Spotting in Nature . . . . . . . . . 490--492
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 53--53
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Reclamation of Marsh Lands in the South 42--42
Anonymous Automobile Racing and Touring in France
and America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Anonymous An Electric Examination of European
Mineral Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous A Kerosene-Oil Lamp . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Industrial Alcohol: How it is Made and
How it is Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous An Advance in Steam Engine Design . . . 44--44
Anonymous An Improved Light-Weight Ignition
Storage Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous A New Adjustable Float-Feed Carbureter
for Use with Gasoline or Alcohol . . . . 44--44
Day Allen Willey The Enlargement of the Erie Canal . . . 45--46
J. B. Van Brussel The New Japanese Battleships ``Katori''
and ``Kishima'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Waldon Fawcett New Sources of Gold . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Anonymous The Fighting Tribes of Southern Africa 50--52
Anonymous An Improved Valve . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous An Automatic Depression Recorder for the
Scientific Control of Ventilation in
Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 53--53
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous English Cars in Railroad Wrecks . . . . 62--62
Anonymous Early Opening of New York Central
Electric Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The First Foreign Salute of the American
Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The Production of Precious Stones in
1905 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Anonymous The Original Selden Gasoline Automobile
and Its Bearing on the Patent Litigation 63--63
Lindon W. Bates, Jr. Galveston --- a City Built Upon Sand . . 64--64
Anonymous The Winning Car of the Grand Prix, and
the New Detachable Rim . . . . . . . . . 65--66
H. J. Shepstone A One-Hundred-and-Fifty-Ton Electric
Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
William Mayner Model Municipal Slaughtering
Establishment at Berlin --- a Lesson in
Sanitary Meat Dressing . . . . . . . . . 68--69
J. Mayne Baltimore A Monster Shark Captured . . . . . . . . 70--70
A. Frederick Collins The Flaming Arc Light . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Proposed System of Guard Rails for the
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Railway Block Signal Legislation . . . . 78--78
Anonymous The Risk of Locks in Flight . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous The Thickness of the Earth's Crust . . . 78--78
Anonymous Botany Up to Date . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous New Sulphur Process for the Preservation
of Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Bolometric Measurements in Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Day Allen Willey The Sulphur Mines of Louisiana . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous A Railroad Coach Constructed in Forty
Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Recently Completed Battleship
``Nebraska'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Our Latest Battleships, ``South
Carolina'' and ``Michigan'' . . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Tunneling the East River . . . . . . . . 83--85
Weldon Fawcett An Automobile for Rural Free Delivery 86--86
A. Frederick Collins A Mechanical Electro-Plating Apparatus 86--87
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Pushing a Good Principle too Far . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Fuel and Water Consumption on the
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Anonymous Canals as Rate Regulators . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous With the Baltic Fleet at Tsushima . . . 94--95
Anonymous Poisonous Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous What the Glidden Tour Proved . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous The Color of Water . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
A. Frederic Collins A New Sensitive Micro-Electroscope . . . 96--96
Alfred Gradenwitz Electric Heating Fabrics . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Novel Commercial Vehicles in the Recent
French Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Frederic R. Honey How Eclipses Occur . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous The Magic Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Edward W. Byrn The Museum of Patent Office Models . . . 100--102
B. S. Bowdish The Modern Taxidermist and His Art . . . 102--103
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 120--122
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Disappearing England . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Aftermath of the San Francisco Fire . . 110--110
Anonymous Prof. See's Investigation of the Earth's
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Anonymous Discoveries in the Sargasso Sea . . . . 110--111
Edgar L. Larkin Electricity and Matter in a Gaseous
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Anonymous The Descent of Man . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous The Death of Daniel B. Wesson . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous The Race for the King's Cup . . . . . . 112--112
W. N. Smith The Electric Car Equipment of the Long
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Anonymous Recent Aeroplanes and Airships in France 116--117
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Automatic Door Opening and Closing
Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Car Door Fastener . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Non-Refillable Bottle . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Hydraulic Apparatus for Cane Mills . . . 118--119
Anonymous A Novel Tobacco Pipe . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Anchor for Airships . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous An Improved Trolley . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 143--147
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Anonymous Concrete and Crushed Rock . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Elevation of Outer Rail on Curves . . . 130--130
Anonymous British Merchant Marine and the Commerce
Destroyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous The Effect of the Sea Upon Climate . . . 130--131
Charles Stirrup Wanted: Brains to Dissect . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous A Severe Earthquake in South America . . 131--131
Anonymous The Nickel Ore Mines of Canada . . . . . 131--131
C. H. Claudy New Asteroid Camera at the Naval
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Anonymous Finishing Touches to the New Croton
Reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Baron K. Takaki Japanese Military Sanitation and Hygiene 136--138
Anonymous The British Battleship ``Dreadnought'' 138--138
F R. Houssay A Wheel Which Carries Its Own Track . . 139--139
Anonymous An Automatic Street Sweeper and
Sprinkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Improved Vehicle Spring . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Car Axle and Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Check Attachment for Pulleys and Chocks 140--140
Anonymous Ore Stamp Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 143--143
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 162--167
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Air Resistance of Electric Cars . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Growth of the Hudson River Steamboat . . 150--150
Anonymous Cement Bases for Wooden Telegraph Poles 150--151
Anonymous The use of Clay Cones in Steel Heating 151--151
Anonymous ``Galvanizing'' with Zinc-Aluminium
Alloy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Ben Winslow Sanitation of the City of Washington ---
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Review of the Atlantic Fleet by the
President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Anonymous Wreck of the Duluth--Superior Drawbridge 156--156
C. C. Fuller Brick and Tile Making in the Tropics . . 157--158
Anonymous The Screw-Propelled Swimmer . . . . . . 158--158
Alfred Gradenwitz The Kromarograph --- an Automatic
Music-Recording Apparatus . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous An Improved Puff Box . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
W. F. Cleveland A New Type of Sixty-Foot Summit Level
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Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 161--161
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Review of the Year 1906 . . . . . . . . 4--5
L. Ramakers An Interesting Process for Avoiding
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Anonymous Speed Trials of the Battleship
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L. A. Hawkes The Manufacture of Steel Pens . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous A Church Blown up by Natural Gas . . . . 12--13
Anonymous A Novel Door Lock . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Hand-Operated Shaper . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Wheel-Flange Oiler . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Army Engineers will Build Panama Canal 206--206
Anonymous Side-Door Cars and Rapid Transit . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Government Test of Submarines . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous New York Central Six-Track Subway . . . 206--206
Anonymous Bridging the Hudson River . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Orson Desaix Munn . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Kites in Life-Saving Operations . . . . 207--207
William Mayner A High-Speed Bavarian Locomotive . . . . 208--209
James J. M'Curdy The Passing of American Square-Rigged
Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous The Telharmonium --- an Apparatus for
the Electrical Generation and
Transmission of Music . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous The Opium Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
Anonymous The Uviol Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous Modern Use of an Ancient Invention . . . 215--215
Anonymous Improved Cable-Cutting Device . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Anchoring Device for Posts . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous A Novel Steam Trap . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 216--216
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Government Investigation of Rail Road
Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Comparative Economy of Producer Gas and
Steam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Progress on the Erie Canal . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Completion of the Second Tube to
Brooklyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Preservation of Steel Work in Tall
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Day Allen Willey Glasgow and Municipal Ownership . . . . 227--227
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Jacques Boyer Making Artificial Flowers . . . . . . . 228--230
Frederic R. Honey How to Study a Star Map . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous A Hydraulic Air-Compressing Plant . . . 231--231
Anonymous Wooden Cars in a Railroad Wreck . . . . 232--232
H. D. Jones Tablet Writings from the Ruins of Nippur 232--234
A. Frederick Collins Carborundum and Silicon Detectors for
Wireless Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Alfred Gradenwitz Leduc's Artificial Plants and Cells . . 234--236
Gustave Michaud An Experiment in Acoustics . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Special Camera for Copying and Enlarging 236--237
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 259--263
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Architectural Improvement of New York
City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous The Demand for Technically Qualified
Young Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous The ``Jena'' Disaster and Stable
Gunpowders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Cohesive Fireproof Tile Construction . . 246--247
Charles A. Sidman International Maritime Exposition
Commemorating Anniversary of Steam
Navigation in Bordeaux, France . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Burchell's Zebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous An Alcohol-Acetylene Mixture for
Internal-Combustion Engines . . . . . . 248--248
W. G. Fitz-Gerald Latest Designs of the Motor in Warfare 249--250
Anonymous How Compressed Air Raised a Sunken Ship.
The Remarkable Salving of the Steamship
``Bavarian'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
Anonymous Controlling Torpedoes by Wireless
Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
Alfred Gradenwitz An Interesting German Flying Machine . . 252--253
Jacques Boyer The Story of a Silk Hat . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Autogenous Welding with the
Oxy-Acetylene High-Pressure Blowpipe . . 255--255
Anonymous The Aero Club Dinner . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Steam Trap with Water Meter Attachment 256--256
Anonymous Filter for Coffee Pots . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 277--278
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 279--283
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous A City of Towers . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Naval Marksmanship . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Electric Traction Vindicated . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Metallic Sodium as a Conductor for
Electric Currents . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous The Death of Pierre Berthelot . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous The Gasoline Motor in Shallow-Draft
Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous New French Aeroplanes . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Gustave Michaud An Optical Illusion . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous A Twentieth Century Campanile . . . . . 270--270
Enos Brown Excavations at Naga-Ed-Der, Where
Prehistoric Man First Settled in Egypt 272--273
Anonymous A New High-Speed Photographic Shutter 274--274
Anonymous Dish Drainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous An Improved Concrete Wall Construction 275--275
Anonymous A Novel Flag Holder . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous A New Rifle Sight . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Carpet Stretcher . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Anonymous Safety Cock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Electric Gas-Lighter for Acetylene
Automobile Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous An Improved Bit Brace . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 298--303
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Gold
Medal for Safety Devices . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous Theory and Practice . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous The Four-Day Liner . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Anonymous Three Months of Denatured Alcohol . . . 286--287
Anonymous The Evaporation of Solid Metals and
their Compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous A Great Ice Jam on the Susquehanna River 288--288
Anonymous A Time-Controlled Phonograph . . . . . . 289--289
Anonymous A Combined Sleeper and Chair Car . . . . 289--289
Edward G. Gage The Construction of a Magnetic Detector 290--291
Anonymous A Continuous Variable-Speed System of
Rapid Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
F. P. Lotz How Church Bells are Cast . . . . . . . 292--293
E. J. Banks A Babylonian Vase Inlaid with Ivory and
Precious Stones Dating from 4500 B.C. 294--294
A. Frederick Collins The Gyroscope as a Compass . . . . . . . 294--295
L. Ramakers An Unsinkable Motor Lifeboat . . . . . . 295--295
Katherine Louise Smith A Lecture Room on a Railroad Train . . . 295--296
Alfred Gradenwitz A Wire Rope Railway Used in the
Construction of an Italian Fortress . . 296--297
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 319--323
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Electrolysis in Armored Concrete . . . . 306--306
Anonymous In Touch with the Conditions . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous A New Theory of Gun Erosion . . . . . . 306--307
Anonymous The Value of the Nile Barrages to Egypt 307--307
Allen Day Seal Hunting on the Ice Floes of the
North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
H. L. Wilson The North Carolina--Virginia Inland
Waterway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous Branch Railways by the Telpherage System 311--312
Day Allen Willey The Carnegie Technical Schools,
Pittsburgh, Pa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
Anonymous Capt. Ferber's Aeroplane Experiments . . 315--315
Anonymous Adjustable Boring Tool . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Lubricator for Street Railway Motors . . 316--316
Anonymous Screw Driver with a Centering Device . . 316--316
Anonymous Armored-Concrete Railway Tie . . . . . . 316--316
Anonymous Stanchion for Cattle . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
Anonymous Recording Auto Speed Meter . . . . . . . 317--317
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 338--343
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American
Aeronautic Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Broken Rails and Railroad Accidents . . 326--326
Anonymous The Cruiser of the Future . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Sustained Electric Oscillations . . . . 326--327
H. C. Dinger Advantages of Turbine Propulsion for
Battleships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
W. G. Fitz-Gerald A Harvest of the Sea . . . . . . . . . . 328--329
W. Frank M'clure The Manufacture of Worsted Cloth . . . . 329--330
E. A. Sterling The Use of Compressed Air in Logging . . 330--330
Anonymous The Hippodrome Mystery Unveiled . . . . 332--333
Anonymous A 250-Ton Mallet Locomotive . . . . . . 333--333
Anonymous Loss of the Largest Ship Ever Wrecked 334--335
Anonymous An Improved Twine Cutter . . . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Adjustable Tension Rods for Pianos . . . 336--336
Anonymous A Novel Form of Nail . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Pipe Stopper or Test Plug . . . . . . . 336--337
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 358--363
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous The Peace Congress . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Scope and Purpose of the Jamestown
Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Raising the Assouan Dam . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous An Oppressive Postal Regulation . . . . 346--347
Anonymous Rules Governing the Competition for the
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Anonymous Saving a Ship by Amputation . . . . . . 348--348
Harry W. Perry The New Home of the Automobile Club of
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous The International Fleet at Jamestown . . 350--351
John T. Maginnis Opening of the Jamestown Exposition . . 351--353
John Plummer Australian Sapphires . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Alfred Gradenwitz A Gigantic Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Improved Packing for Pistons . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Wagon Brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Seal Box Fastener . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Alarm Attachment for Self-Binders . . . 356--356
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous Notes and Queries: Note and Queries . . 378--378
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 378--383
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Accelerating Rate of Growth of our
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Anonymous The Commercial Supremacy of New York . . 366--366
Anonymous Health Conditions at Panama . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Full Electric Service on the New York
Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous The President's Inland Waterways
Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous No Bids for the New Subway . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Quarrying Glacier Ice . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Developing Photographic Plates in
Daylight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Walter L. Beasley Naosaurus: A Fossil Wonder . . . . . . . 368--368
A. Frederick Collins A Military Wireless Telegraph Equipment 369--370
Anonymous The Felling of Factory Stacks . . . . . 372--372
Saito Tsunetaro The Japanese Squadron at Jamestown . . . 373--373
W. D. H. Washington The Colorado River Closure . . . . . . . 374--377
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 397--398
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 399--403
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous The Peril of the Derelict . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous The Limits of Heavy Electric Traction 386--386
Anonymous Turbo-Electric Engines for Ships? . . . 386--386
Anonymous The Spring Meeting of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers . . . . 386--386
Orrin E. Dunlap Deflocculated Graphite and the ``Acheson
Effect'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous An Automobile Hearse . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous The Blériot Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Alfred Gradenwitz The Talking Siren of Dr. Marage . . . . 389--390
Anonymous A Theater Auditorium Turned Into a
Ballroom at a Moment's Notice . . . . . 391--391
Jacques Boyer The Manufacture of Matches in France . . 392--394
Anonymous Reconstructing a Great City Railroad
Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous An Improved Vehicle Jack . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Coupling for Large Pipes . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Quick-Acting Wrench . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Portable Saw-Operating Mechanism . . . . 395--395
Anonymous A New Form of Mushroom Bullet . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous Portable Coal Bin . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Improved Netting for Airships . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Attachment for Sewing Machines . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Roller Appliance for Rocking Chairs . . 396--396
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Anonymous Cape Cod Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Pennsylvania and New Haven
Connecting Railroad . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Seventh National Automobile Show at
Madison Square Garden . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous Some Early American Automobiles . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Engine of the Car De Luxe . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous An Engine with Low-Tension Magneto
Ignition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous An Automobile Motor with Rotary Valve 25--25
Anonymous Engine of the 60-Horse-Power Thomas Car 25--25
Anonymous The 50-Horse-Power Northern Engine . . . 25--25
Anonymous Friction-Drive Cars . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous The Holsman Rope-Drive Automobile . . . 26--26
Anonymous A Successful Friction-Drive Automobile 26--26
Anonymous Transmissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous A New Form of Two-Speed Transmission
Combined with the Differential . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous A Transmission with Individual Jaw
Clutches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous The Haynes Transmission and Roller Bevel
Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Transmission Gear with Double Clutches 28--28
Anonymous Novel Clutch and Transmission Features
of 1907 Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Anonymous The Lozier Protected Drive Chain . . . . 29--29
Anonymous The Pope--Toledo Combined Clutch and
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous A Novel Individual Clutch Transmission 29--29
Anonymous Typical Brakes on 1907 Cars . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous An Improved Sliding-Gear Transmission 30--30
Anonymous The Dragon Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous The Wayne Transmission and Clutch . . . 30--31
Anonymous A Novel Combined Sliding-Gear
Transmission and Multiple-Disk Clutch 31--31
Anonymous The Stoddard--Dayton Chassis . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous The Grout 35-Horse-Power Chassis . . . . 31--33
Anonymous Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous The Royal Touring Car and Limousine . . 34--34
Anonymous An Improved Type of Live Rear Axle . . . 34--34
Anonymous The Northern Four-Cylinder
50-Horse-Power Car . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Lubricators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Novelties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous An Improved Type of Steering Gear . . . 38--38
Anonymous An Instrument for Testing Shock
Absorbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Pneumatic Steel Hub for Automobile
Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous A Novel Reflector . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
H. D. Jones Food Losses During Cooking . . . . . . . 40--42
Anonymous Photographs with Bas-Relief Effects . . 42--42
Anonymous The Smallest Steam Engine on Earth . . . 42--42
Anonymous Improvements in the White Steam Touring
Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous An Ingenious Locking Device . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous A Simple Type of Automobile Speedometer 43--43
Rene Bache Some Modern Inventions which are Ancient
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Some Improvements in Honeycomb Radiators 47--47
Anonymous The Moon Touring Car . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous The House Recoil Check . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Anonymous The 1907 Peerless Touring Car . . . . . 49--50
Anonymous The Autocar Combined Engine and
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 417--417
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 418--419
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 419--423
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous A Speedy Solution of the ``Broken Rail''
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Subway Deadlock in New York . . . . 406--406
Anonymous New Uses for an Old Device --- The
Gyroscopic Railroad Train . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Third Annual Meeting and Run of the
Automobile Engineers . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous New Commissioner of Patents . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Flights by Homing Pigeons . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Walter Bernard The Construction and Handling of
Submarines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous The Peril of the ``Broken Rail'' --- Its
Cause and Cure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Allen Hale Construction of Florida East Coast
Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--413
Anonymous English Exposition of Model Flying
Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous An Improved Bridle . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Motor-Driven Stump Puller . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Metallic Piston Packing . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Improved Pipe Wrench . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
Anonymous A Novel Swimming Apparatus . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Attachment for Stoves . . . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Weighing Scoop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Apparatus for Agitating Liquids . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 437--437
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 438--443
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous Needed --- a Rational Railroad Track . . 426--426
Anonymous Excellent Foundations for the Gatun
Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous The Smoke Peril at Fires . . . . . . . . 426--427
William H. Tolman The American Museum of Safety Devices
and Industrial Hygiene . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Walter Beasley Extraordinary Insect Enlargements . . . 428--430
Anonymous The New White Star Liner ``Adriatic'' 431--432
Anonymous Charles Haynes Haswell . . . . . . . . . 433--433
Frederic R. Honey Eclipse of the Sun in July, 1907 . . . . 434--434
Day Allen Willey Building a Town Site by Suction Dredge 435--436
Gustave Michaud A Curious Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Alfred Gradenwitz An X-Ray Stereoscope . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 458--463
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Slaughter in War and Peace . . . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous Speed Indicators on Locomotives . . . . 446--446
Anonymous Single-Service Paper Milk Bottles . . . 446--446
Anonymous Running Municipal Trolley Cars with
Garbage and Refuse . . . . . . . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous Domestic Electric Light Plant Driven by
a Windmill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous The Brennan Gyroscope Monorail . . . . . 449--450
Anonymous Our 735,000,000-Bushel Wheat Crop . . . 450--450
George Ethelbert Walsh To the Jamestown Exposition by Motor
Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--450
T. S. Parsons Some Unknown American Natural Bridges 452--452
S. Leonard Bastin A Home-Made Barometer . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Anonymous The Wonderful Sulphur Mines of Louisiana 454--456
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 477--477
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 478--483
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Anonymous Tunnel Tubes in Soft Material . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous The Problem of Raising an Existing Dam
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition . . 466--466
Anonymous Influence of Light on the Conductivity
of Antimonite . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Government Tests of Safety Devices for
Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous The Largest Arch Bridge in the World . . 468--468
Anonymous The Two Competitors in the Motor Boat
Race to Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Day Allen Willey Mining in Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Anonymous Teaching Deaf-Mutes to Speak . . . . . . 473--474
Percy Collins Nature's Touch-Me-Nots . . . . . . . . . 474--475
Anonymous Improved Grass Cutter . . . . . . . . . 476--476
Anonymous A Novel Sash Lock . . . . . . . . . . . 476--476
Anonymous Combined Lightning Arrester, Fuse Box,
and Insulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--476
Anonymous A New Method of Handling Acids . . . . . 476--476
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 497--497
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 498--498
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 498--503
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous Gatun Lake is Double the Estimated Size 486--486
Anonymous San Francisco Earthquake and Engineering
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Anonymous Fluid Compression for Steel Rails . . . 486--486
Anonymous Sir Benjamin Baker . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Frederic R. Honey The Transit of Mercury in 1907 . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous The Two-Hundred-Mile Automobile
Endurance Test of the New York Motor
Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous The Protective Works of the Assouan Dam 488--488
John Trowbridge Ball Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--489
Anonymous A New Signaling Machine System for the
Automatic Control of Railroad Trains . . 489--490
Walter Beasley Diplodocus: The Greatest of All Earthly
Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Anonymous The Ocean Race of Torpedo-Boat
Destroyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Practical Tests of the Schlick Gyrostat
for Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
C. R. Stockard A Pair of Limbless, Snake-Like Lambs . . 495--495
Anonymous A Successful Hydroplane Gliding Boat . . 495--496
Anonymous A Mechanical Toy which Draws Geometrical
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 517--517
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 517--518
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 518--518
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 518--523
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 523--523
Anonymous How the Law May Prevent Railroad
Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Anonymous We Build a Locomotive on the Metric
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Anonymous Brunel and the Seven-Foot Gage . . . . . 506--506
Anonymous Another Long-Distance Transmission in
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Anonymous Tinol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507
W. G. Fitz-Gerald A Telephone Newspaper . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Result of the Motor Boat Race to Bermuda 507--507
Anonymous Automobile Races and Record Runs . . . . 507--507
Anonymous The Government Tests of Submarines . . . 508--508
Anonymous The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition . . 509--510
Anonymous Double-Deck Streets as a Relief for
Traffic Congestion . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
Victor D. Brenner The Art and Craft of the Medalist . . . 511--512
Alfred Gradenwitz Mechanical Masterpieces of the
Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 513--514
L. A. Camacho Do Animals Reason? . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
John W. Hall An Artificial Respirator . . . . . . . . 515--515
Anonymous An Improved Clothes Line Hanger . . . . 516--516
Anonymous A Novel Pneumatic Massage Machine . . . 516--516
Anonymous Spark-Producing Mechanism for Explosion
Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516
Anonymous Novel Safety Razor . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 527--527
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 536--536
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 536--537
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 537--537
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 537--540
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--542
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 543--543
Anonymous Costly Improvements in New York City . . 526--526
Anonymous American Yachting Season of 1907 . . . . 526--526
Anonymous Forty-Four-Mile Electrification on the
West Shore Railroad . . . . . . . . . . 526--526
Anonymous Converting Music into Electricity . . . 527--527
Anonymous A New Hydroplane Boat . . . . . . . . . 528--528
Anonymous The Most Powerful Express Locomotive
Ever Built . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--528
C. H. Claudy Sound Signals for Mariners: An Inventive
Field Which is not Overworked . . . . . 529--530
Anonymous The Magnitude of Victoria Falls . . . . 530--531
Anonymous Inauguration of Work on the Catskill New
York Water Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 531--531
Charles Oscar Paullin The Vessels and Guns of the Old Navy,
1775--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--534
Jacques Boyer Bertillon's New System of Anthropometry 534--535
Alfred Gradenwitz A Novel Apparatus for Demonstrating
Atmospheric Pressure . . . . . . . . . . 535--535
Anonymous Correspondence: Correspondences . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Large Powder Chambers and Gun Erosion 66--66
Anonymous Value of Rare Earths for Electrical
Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Perhydrase Milk --- a New Sterilized
Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Anonymous Recent Performances of the French
Airship ``Patrie'' . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Katherine B. Calhoun Facts about Black Lead Pencils . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous The Yawning Cure for Throat Diseases . . 67--67
Anonymous Climate: Past and Present . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Reginald A. Fessenden Recent Progress in Wireless Telephony 68--69
Anonymous The Launch of the ``Satsuma'' . . . . . 69--69
D. A. Willey A Machine that Predicts Tides . . . . . 69--70
Anonymous Opening of Electric Service on the New
York Central and the New Haven Railroads 72--73
L. Lodian Some Facts about Tea . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Snow Shoes for Wagons . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous An Improved Self-Oiling Roller Bearing 75--76
Anonymous Umbrella Frame with Detachable Ribs . . 76--76
Anonymous An Improved Receiver for Telephones . . 76--76
A. Frederick Collins A Handy Portable Crane and Hoist . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Liquid Soap Holder . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous The Comedy of the Manhattan Bridge . . . 86--86
Anonymous Mr. Hill on the Railroad Crisis . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Brooklyn Bridge Terminal Station and
Subway Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous A New Electric Lamp Filament . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous The Jamaican Earthquake . . . . . . . . 87--87
Edward C. Broadwell Method for Electro-Deposition and
Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The Bite of a Gila Monster . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The Cortlandt Street Tunnels and
Terminal Building, New York . . . . . . 88--90
Waldon Fawcett The Work of the Rotary Snow Plow . . . . 92--92
Anonymous An Exposition of Safety Devices and
Industrial Hygiene . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Some More Electrical Devices for the
Household . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Laws of Falling Bodies . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous A Safety Trip for Logging Cars . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Sheathing Lath . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Improved Measure for Foaming Liquids . . 96--96
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous The English Channel Tunnel Scheme . . . 106--106
Anonymous Quick-Steaming Marine Boilers . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Spontaneous Ignition of Coal . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous The Cornu Helicopter . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Day Allen Willey To-morrow's Weather: How It Is Foretold 108--109
Anonymous The ``Express'' Coal-Bagging Lighter for
Coaling War Vessels in Harbor . . . . . 110--111
Day Allen Willey The Sea-Rafts of the Northwest . . . . . 112--113
W. G. Fitz-Gerald Breathing Masks and Helmets . . . . . . 113--114
R. Lydekker Concerning Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Anonymous New Toy Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Window-Blind Guard . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Chuck for Rock Drills . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Business and Personal Wants . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous The ``Casualty List'' of American
Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Satisfactory Foundations for Panama Dams
and Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous The Panama Canal Contract . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Should the Steel Makers Subsidize our
Shipbuilders? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Why the Big One-Caliber-Gun Battleships
are Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Anonymous Comparative Test of Alcohol, Kerosene
and Gasoline as Automobile Fuels . . . . 127--127
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Telephone Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous The Accident to the Stanley Steam Racer 128--128
Anonymous The Fastest and Most Powerful American
Motor Bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Daniel M. Luehrs Machine for Recording the Vibration of
Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Frederic R. Honey Morning and Evening Stars for 1907 . . . 130--131
Anonymous The Somersaulting Automobile . . . . . . 132--132
Forrest E. Cardullo The Battleship of the Future --- I . . . 133--133
R. W. Wood The Optical Intensification of Paintings 134--134
Anonymous The New Lock and Key Bottle for Holding
Poison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous The Spider's Web as a Negative . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous A Clock Made of Slate . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Public Weather Towers in Vienna . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 156--159
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Government Regulation of Niagara Power 146--146
Anonymous Stupendous Water Supply Scheme . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous A Simple-Cylinder Superheat Locomotive
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous One Year's Wear of a Steam Turbine . . . 146--146
Anonymous Reinforced Concrete Construction on the
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Anonymous The Odors of Metals . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Aerial Navigation Prizes . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Robert Grimshaw Korn's Photographic Fac-Simile Telegraph 148--148
W. Frank M'clure The Car Ferry Traffic of Lake Erie . . . 149--150
Forrest E. Cardullo The Battleship of the Future --- II . . 150--151
Hamilton Wright Tobacco Raising in the Philippines . . . 152--153
Anonymous The Subsidence of a Concrete Building 154--154
Anonymous A Remarkable Accident . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Vehicle Spring Buffer . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Fresh-Air Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Metallic Piston Packing . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous A New Electric Furnace . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 174--181
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Anonymous The ``Larchmont'' Disaster . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Trend of Motor-Boat Development . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Gyroscopic Action of Marine Turbines . . 162--163
Anonymous Long-Distance Motor-Boat Races for 1907 163--163
Anonymous Power Boat Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Recent Performances of French Hydroplane
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Anonymous The Branger Cup Race for Miniature Motor
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Anonymous Latest Types of Cruising Power Boats . . 167--167
W. P. Stephens Influence of the Automobile on Launch
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
A. B. Willits New Types of Gas Engines for Marine Work 169--170
Anonymous A High-Speed Motor Boat that Can be
Built at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Canovetti's Air-Resistance Experiments 170--171
A. Frederick Collins Some New and Useful's Electric Hand
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
M. Glen Fling Leather Goods Made of Human Skin . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Huge Bowlders Raised by Bucket Dredges 173--173
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 197--198
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Risks of Steel-Concrete Construction . . 186--186
Anonymous Should Surface Soil be Stripped from
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Anonymous The ``Mikasa'' was Sunk by Spontaneous
Magazine Explosion . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous The Peril of the Electric Locomotive on
Steam Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Pearls from the Sulu Sea . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Light and Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
A. Frederick Collins A Useful Combination Tool . . . . . . . 188--188
M. U. Schoop The Autogenous Soldering of Metals . . . 189--190
Anonymous The Magnitude of the Gas Industry . . . 190--190
A. E. Potter The Motor Boat Show at Madison Square
Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous Wreck of an Electric Train on the New
York Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
Alfred Gradenwitz Electrically-Driven Target Trains in the
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Anonymous The Krieger Searchlight Automobile . . . 194--195
Anonymous An Algerian Natural Bridge . . . . . . . 196--196
Charles Frederick Holder A New Fish for America . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 14--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Our Naval Forces in the Pacific . . . . 4--4
Anonymous The Enemies of Structural Steel . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Six Months Electric Operation of the
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Milton B. Punnett Original Methods of Toning Developed
Photographic Prints . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
W. W. Mills Simple Apparatus for Producing the
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Anonymous A Remarkable Outcrop of Silver . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous A New Automobile Race Track . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Pile Foundations for Tunnel Tubes . . . 8--8
Day Allen Willey New Railroad Construction in Canada and
the Northwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
L. B. Ward The Economical Surface Mining Operations
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Anonymous Water-Walking Shoes . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Santos Dumont's Combined Aeroplane and
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Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 174--179
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous The Quebec Bridge Disaster . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Progress of the Catskill Water Supply 162--162
Anonymous The Cruise of Our Battleships to the
Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Better Rails for 1908 . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Why Erosion is Greater in Large Guns . . 162--163
William H. Hale The Seventh International Zoological
Congress --- Boston Meeting, August 19
to 23, 1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Completion of the \booktitleScientific
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Anonymous Modern Experimental Psychology --- Its
Methods and Apparatus . . . . . . . . . 164--167
Anonymous The Erection of the 612-Foot Singer
Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
Anonymous Electric Locomotives of the Pennsylvania
Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Anonymous Moving the Montauk Theater . . . . . . . 171--171
E. C. Hamner The Launch of the Caissons Recently
Built at the Norfolk Navy Yard . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous The Cold Storage of Furs . . . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 193--194
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 194--196
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 196--199
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous A Portentous Bridge Disaster . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Successful Flight of an Aeroplane
Constructed After Langley's Model . . . 182--182
Anonymous The Evolution of Matter . . . . . . . . 182--183
H. A. Crafts Searching for Parasites to Fight Fruit
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Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous A Forgotten Masterpiece --- the
Rittenhouse Orrery and Its Maker . . . . 184--184
Anonymous The Quebec Bridge Disaster . . . . . . . 186--187
Anonymous The New Turbine Liner ``Lusitania'' . . 188--190
Anonymous One of the Competing Aeroplanes for the
\booktitleScientific American
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Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Trophy
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Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Improved Pole-Climbing Shoe . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous A Novel Advertising Device . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Cushioned Car Wheel . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 212--215
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Value of Transatlantic Speed . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Moving Platforms for the Brooklyn Bridge 202--202
Anonymous Compression Members in Bridges . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous New Compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Anonymous A German Chemist's Experiences in
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Balloon, Airship, and Flying Machine
Competitions at St. Louis . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Butterflies and the Roentgen Rays . . . 203--203
C. H. Claudy Regarding Spar Buoys . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
A. Frederick Collins A Boy's Engines and How He Made Them . . 205--205
Anonymous The Double-Deck Surface and Tunnel
Station of the Hudson Companies in
Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Charles A. Sidman New 14-Inch Gun for Coast Defense . . . 208--208
W. Frank M'clure The Chicago--St. Louis Waterway . . . . 209--210
A. Frederick Collins The ``Turn-Down'' Electric Lamp . . . . 210--210
Harold J. Shepstone Breaking up the Ill-Fated British
Battleship ``Montagu'' . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 228--231
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Anonymous Our Enormous Fire Losses . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Important Addition to New York City's
Water Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Observations of Mars during the Recent
Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Cracked Car Axles . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Arthur H. J. Keane Fabled Cities Submerged . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous A Simple Pipe-Bending Machine . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Simonis Liquid-Air Apparatus . . . . . . 220--220
Herbert T. Wade Wireless Telephony for the United States
Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Anonymous Daniel's Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous If Insects Were as Large as Elephants 225--225
Anonymous The New Fastnet Rock Lighthouse . . . . 226--227
Anonymous A Device for Washing the Outside
Surfaces of Windows . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous A New Type of Car Fender . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Hand Warmer and Body Heater . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Improved Fruit Picker . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 247--251
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Progress on the Panama Canal . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous The ``America'' Cup Challenge . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous A Proposed Hudson--Fulton Celebration 234--234
Anonymous Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy . . . 234--234
Anonymous Aluminium for Electric Uses . . . . . . 234--234
Harold J. Shepstone The First British Military Airship . . . 236--237
Anonymous Sea-Going Torpedo Boats . . . . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous Manufacture of Mechanical Rubber Goods 240--242
Jacques Boyer The New Photographic Meridian Telescope
of the Paris Observatory . . . . . . . . 242--242
T. W. Baldwin The Outlook Tower of Beinn Bhreagh, the
First Iron Structure Built of
Tetrahedral Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Anonymous Cooking Utensil for Campers . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Improved Track-Laying Machine . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Ladder for Use on Uneven Ground . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Improved Leveling Rod . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 264--267
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous A Swedish Challenge for the Cup . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Ambitious Scheme of Electrification . . 254--254
Anonymous Our Stupendous Railroad System . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous The Formula and the Testing Machine . . 254--255
Anonymous How to Prevent Failure in Concrete
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous The Electrical Show at Madison Square
Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Thomas C. Butten The So-Called Hypnotic Influence of
Snakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
F. Savorgnan Di Brazza A New System for the Fixation of
Atmospheric Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . 256--257
Anonymous Why the Quebec Bridge Failed . . . . . . 257--258
H. C. Gammeter The Gammeter Orthopter --- A
Beating-Wing Flying Machine . . . . . . 258--258
L. W. M'Caughrey A Strong Home-Made Turnbuckle . . . . . 259--259
C. Field War Cars, Ancient and Modern . . . . . . 260--262
Anonymous Blood Pressure and Mental Conditions . . 262--262
Alfred Gradenwitz A Universal Astronomical Clock . . . . . 262--263
Willam H. Knight Gas and Coke from Crude Oil . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 280--283
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Old French Machinery at Panama Does Good
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous The Four-Day Boat . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Prospects of Relief of Brooklyn Bridge
Crush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Battery Tunnel Ready in Two Months . . . 270--271
R. Lydekker Some Mechanical Adaptations in Animals 271--271
Anonymous The Water Supply of the United States 271--271
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 271--271
L. J. Lesh Some Preliminary Experiments in Flying 272--272
Orrin E. Dunlap Illuminating Niagara with Its Own Power 273--274
Anonymous Enormous Power Consumed in our
Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous How the \booktitleScientific American
Trophy Was Made . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Francis Henry Laking Food Value of Dried Fruits . . . . . . . 276--277
J. S. Dunnet By Motor Car to the South Pole . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Santos Dumont's New Hydroplane . . . . . 278--278
Harold J. Shepstone Plant Culture by Electricity --- an
Interesting Experiment . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 312--312
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 312--315
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Panama Canal Locks to Be Widened . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Hoist with Its Own Petard . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous The Humanitarian Side of Vivisection . . 302--302
Anonymous Shipbuilding in the United States . . . 302--302
Anonymous Artificial Honey . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Trophy
and Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous The Crocco and Ricaldoni Hydroplane Boat 304--304
Anonymous Combined Dam and Power Plant . . . . . . 305--306
Anonymous The Long Distance Balloon Races from St.
Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
A. Frederick Collins A Convenient Pocket Transit . . . . . . 310--310
Louis I. Dublin Natural and Artificial Mixed Colonies of
Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Anonymous An Interesting Type of Cow Milker . . . 311--311
Anonymous Folding Ironing Table . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Extension Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Attachment for Traction-Operated
Implements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Single-Phase Electric Equipment on the
Erie Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320
Anonymous The Automobile at the Recent Shows . . . 320--320
Anonymous A New French Aeroplane Record . . . . . 320--321
George Ethelbert Walsh Rescuing our Roads . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous Improvements in the Marmon Air-Cooled
Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous The National 6-Cylinder Engine . . . . . 322--322
Anonymous The Hewitt 8-Cylinder 90-Degree Motor 323--323
Anonymous The Carter Two-Engine Car . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Transmissions and Chassis . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous The Gearless Two-Speed Transmission . . 324--324
Anonymous The Power Plant of the Holsman Car . . . 324--324
Anonymous A Unique form of Transmission Gear . . . 324--325
Anonymous The Imperial Chassis . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Anonymous The Lambert Friction-Drive Chassis . . . 325--325
Howard Greene Types of Shock Absorbers for Automobiles 326--326
Harry W. Perry Taximeter Motor Cabs in America . . . . 327--329
Harry B. Haines How to Tour in an Automobile . . . . . . 330--331
Anonymous Novelties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous An Automobile Used as a Hoisting Engine 332--332
Anonymous Automatic Speed Governor . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous The Auto-Slip Archim\`ede --- a Portable
Apparatus for Lifting Automobiles for
Examination and Repair . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Louis J. Stellmann A New Musical Instrument Which Produces
Violin Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Electric Incubators . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous The Aero Club Trophies at the Automobile
Show in the Grand Central Palace . . . . 338--338
Anonymous ``Newmastic'' --- a Reliable and Elastic
Filling for Pneumatic Tires . . . . . . 339--340
Anonymous A Novel Gasoline Tester . . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Automobile Traffic Growth in New York 343--344
Anonymous Some Improvements for the Motor Bicycle 344--345
Anonymous A Novel Floatless Carbureter . . . . . . 345--345
Anonymous Single Vibrator Apparatus for
Synchronizing the Ignition Sparks of
Multiple-Unit Coils . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous The New Stoddard--Dayton Engine . . . . 346--347
Anonymous The 1908 Peerless Motors and Trans
Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Anonymous A New Two-Cycle Motor and Truck . . . . 348--349
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 33--34
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 35--39
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Navy to Build ``Octopus'' Type of
Submarine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Electric Power Plants are Responsible 22--22
Anonymous The Steel Rail Problem . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Contract Awarded for Two
``Dreadnoughts'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Board of Underwriters on Cement
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous The Grand Prix International Automobile
Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Gasoline Motor Cars Adopted for Branch
Line Service on the Union Pacific
Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous A Traction Wheel with Sinusoidal Tread 24--24
Anonymous Sand Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous The Riddle of Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous How Linoleums and Oilcloths are Made . . 28--30
Anonymous Some Interesting Tricks . . . . . . . . 30--30
Alfred Gradenwitz Captive Balloons in the German Army and
Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Apparatus for Sustaining and Directing
Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous The Plug Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Railway Track Construction . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous An Improved Button Latch . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 365--366
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 367--371
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous The Man before the Furnace . . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous The Present Status of Transatlantic,
Wireless Telegraphy . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous The Eighth National Automobile Show in
Madison Square Garden . . . . . . . . . 354--354
S. A. Mitchell How the Planets are Photographed . . . . 355--355
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., October, 1907 . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Edison's System of Concrete Houses . . . 356--356
Anonymous The Bredsdorff Stranding Buoy . . . . . 356--357
Jhon Miller Boneright A New American Aeroplane . . . . . . . . 357--358
Anonymous The Latest French Aeroplanes and Their
Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Anonymous The Vienna Serum Institute . . . . . . . 360--360
Day Allen Willey The Marble Quarries of Carrara . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous The New Susquehanna Bridge, Pennsylvania
Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Harold J. Shepstone The Launch of the Bow of the ``Suevic'' 363--363
Katherine Louise Smith A Curious Bread School . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 384--387
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patent . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Labor Saving at Panama . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Our National Wastefulness . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Commerce on the Great Lakes . . . . . . 374--375
Raymond M'Bride Logging in the Northwest . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
S. A. Mitchell ``Knots'' in the Rings of Saturn . . . . 376--376
Anonymous The Clifden Station of the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph System . . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous The Largest Single Office Building in
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Anonymous The Quadruple Turbine Steamship
``Mauretania'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--382
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Automatic Coupling for Brake Pipes . . . 383--383
Anonymous Water Elevator for Windmills . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Improved Ditching Plow . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 400--403
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Light on the Quebec Bridge Disaster . . 390--390
Anonymous Train Ferries for the English Channel 390--390
Anonymous National Swamp Reclamation . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous The Use of the Gyroscope in Connection
with Airships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Electric Sunstroke . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
J. A. Stewart The New Bridge over the Wissahickon at
Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
S. A. Mitchell The Transit of Mercury . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Anonymous The Enlargement and Reconstruction of
Governor's Island . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous The Peters Self-Registering Electric
Target for Rifle Ranges . . . . . . . . 395--396
Percy Collins The Nests and Nurseries of Insects . . . 396--398
Gustave Michaud Some Experiments with a Mirror . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous A New Type of Storage Battery . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Combined Water Heater, Filter, and
Cooler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Improved Boring Bar . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 423--428
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 429--429
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Anonymous What Constitutes Naval Strength? . . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Battleship and Gun of the Future . . 406--406
Anonymous Remarkable Target Practice by the
Flagship of the Pacific Fleet . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Motor Torpedo Boat --- a New Type 406--406
A. T. Mahan The True Significance of the Pacific
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Anonymous Battleships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous The Battleships ``Kearsarge'' and
``Kentucky'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous The First-Class Battleship ``Alabama''
--- Class of Three Ships . . . . . . . . 408--409
Anonymous First-Class Battleship ``Maine'' ---
Class of Three Ships . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous First-Class Battleship ``Georgia'' ---
Class of Five Ships . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous First-Class Battleship ``Connecticut''
--- Class of Six Ships . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Anonymous Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Protected Cruiser ``Charleston'' ---
Class of Three Ships . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Unarmored Cruiser ``Chattanooga'' and
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Anonymous The Scout Cruiser ``Salem'' and Class 412--412
Anonymous Harbor-Defense Monitors . . . . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Torpedo-Boat Destroyers . . . . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Warship Tonnage of the Principal Naval
Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Edward L. Beach The United States Naval Academy . . . . 415--417
D. W. Taylor Simple Explanation of Model Basin
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Anonymous The Development of Our Submarine Fleet 420--420
Anonymous Guns and Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--422
Anonymous First-Class Battleships ``Idaho'' and
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Anonymous First-Class Battleships ``South
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Anonymous The 20-000-Ton ``North Dakota'' and
``Delaware'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 448--451
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Separate Entrances and Exits on Cars . . 438--438
Anonymous Comprehensive Scheme for National
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Anonymous The Loss of the French Airship ``La
Patrie'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Archæological Work in Wyoming . . . . . . 438--439
Anonymous The Mysterious Railway Disasters in
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Jacques Boyer New Experiments in Radio-Activity . . . 440--440
Percival Lowell Saturn's Tores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Thomas R. Baker An Easily Made Micrometer . . . . . . . 443--443
Alfred Gradenwitz A Glimpse of Western Tibet --- an
Austrian Expedition to the Forbidden
Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous Santos Dumont's Latest Aeroplane . . . . 445--446
Walter L. Beasley A Carnivorous Dinosaur: A Reconstructed
Skeleton of a Huge Saurian . . . . . . . 446--447
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 465--467
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous The President on Employers' Liability 454--454
Anonymous Difficulties in Constructing the Great
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Anonymous The Mastery of the Ocean . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Proposed New Ships for the Navy . . . . 454--455
Anonymous Recent Automobile Endurance Tests . . . 455--455
Anonymous The Motor Boat Show at the Grand Central
Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Jacques Boyer The Belin Process of Telephotography . . 456--457
Anonymous An Artificial Horizon for Sextants . . . 457--457
Katherine Louise Smith Mexican Fiestas . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
James Cooke Mills The Detroit River Tunnel . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Recent Archæological Discoveries in Egypt 460--461
Gustave Michaud A Chromatic Illusion . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous New and Ingenious French Toys . . . . . 462--463
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 481--481
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 482--482
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 482--484
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous Build Gatun Locks for the Future . . . . 470--470
Anonymous Proposed Government Forest Preserves . . 470--470
Anonymous Enormous Death Roll among the Miners . . 470--470
Anonymous Vibration in Passenger Ships . . . . . . 470--471
Anonymous Anthracite Coal Centennial . . . . . . . 471--471
Marcus Benjamin Edward Leamington Nichols . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous The Foreign Automobile Show in Madison
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Anonymous To Our Subscribers . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Safety Suit of Aeronauts . . . . . . . . 472--472
Gustave Michaud A Chemical Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Harry A. Hannum An Instrument for Drawing Ellipses and
Hyperbolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Jacques Boyer The New Henry Dynamometer . . . . . . . 472--473
Anonymous The Oval Billiard Table . . . . . . . . 473--473
Frederic R. Honey The Total Eclipse of the Sun in January,
1908 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Lord Kelvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous The Manufacture of High Explosives . . . 475--478
Alfred Gradenwitz The Influence of Profession on the Shape
of the Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous Dr. Branly's Apparatus for Control of
Distant Mechanical Effects . . . . . . . 478--480
George Gilbert An Automatic Violin Player . . . . . . . 480--480
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Around the World in Forty Days . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Steady Improvement in Naval Gunnery . . 42--42
Anonymous Relative Risk of Overhead and Third-Rail
Conductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous The Lumi\`ere Single-Plate Process of
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J. Kent Smith The Rail Situation . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Jacques Boyer A New Automobile Boat . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Cara Reese An Exhibition of Fruits and Vegetables
in Wax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Frederic R. Honey The Moon's Phases and Eclipse in July,
1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Henry Hale Osborne College: An English Naval School 48--49
H. L. Morgan A New Identification System in the
United States Army . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Ionic Therapeutics . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Is a Revision of Gatun Dam Necessary? 58--58
Anonymous Battleship ``Georgia'' Disaster . . . . 58--58
Anonymous Latest Results with Marine Turbines . . 58--58
Anonymous Opening of the New Haven Railroad
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Anonymous The Heating of Copper Wires by Electric
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Anonymous Building Railway Coaches with Side Doors 59--59
Anonymous The First Races and Records on the New
Weybridge Track . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous Block Signals in the Cab of the
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Anonymous Death of Sir William Perkin . . . . . . 62--62
C. H. Claudy Photomicrographs without a Microscope 64--64
Jacques Boyer Orthopedic Appliances . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Arthur L. Williston Some Strange Sources of Water Power on
the Coast of Dalmatia . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Attachment for Sewing Machines . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Answer to the Plug Puzzle . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Building Block for Concrete Construction 67--67
Anonymous An Improvement in Hammers . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 85--86
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 87--91
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous A Costly Blunder . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Perils of the Long Island Grade
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Anonymous Perils of Record Target Firing . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Good Work by Our Submarines . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Bright Outlook for Better Rails . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Designer Fife on the ``America'' Cup
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Anonymous A Fleet of French Military Airships . . 75--75
H. A. Crafts Present and Prospective Docking
Facilities of the Pacific Coast . . . . 75--75
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous A Practical Gliding Craft with Submerged
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Anonymous Results of the American Automobile
Association's Fourth Annual Tour for the
Glidden and Hower Trophies . . . . . . . 77--78
Anonymous The Inauguration of the New Haven
Railroad Electric Service . . . . . . . 79--81
A. Frederick Collins An Improved Electric Welder . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The New Vickers--Maxim Automatic
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H. G. Moore A Home-Made Airship . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Anonymous An Improved Lath Cutter . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Improved Vehicle Wheel . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous An Improvised Tandem . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous An Improved Bench Stop . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous At Last a 25-Knot Liner . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Colorado Dam is Permanent . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Is Rusting Electrolytic? . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Cause and Cure of Split Rail Heads . . . 94--95
Anonymous Ramsay's Discovery of the Degradation of
Copper to Lithium . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Herbert W. Horwill and
M. A The Story of an Ancient Mine . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous The 25-Knot Turbine Liner ``Lusitania'' 96--96
S. P. Fergusson The International Kite Ascensions . . . 97--98
Anonymous The Erection of the Blackwell's Island
Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Louis C. Kane A Revolution in Postal Car Construction 102--103
Walter L. Beasley The Greatest of Mastodons . . . . . . . 103--104
Anonymous An Electric Dining Table . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Concrete and Cupidity . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Ambrose Channel now One-Half Completed 114--114
Anonymous Smokeless Powder and Ammunition Rooms 114--114
Anonymous Route of Catskill Aqueduct Changed . . . 114--114
Anonymous Growth of our Exports of Manufactures 114--114
Anonymous A Prize for the Extraction of Flax . . . 114--115
George Frederick Stratton A College of Invention . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous A Scientific Study of the Racehorse, and
Its use in Mounting the Skeleton of
Sysonby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous The New United States Scout Cruiser
``Salem'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Baker Brownell A Home-Made Air Thermometer . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous The Largest Locomotive Ever Constructed 119--121
Anonymous A Locomotive Driving-Wheel Recording
Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
J. B. Van Brussel A New Egyptian Irrigation Canal . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous The Question of Two Engineers in the Cab 130--130
Anonymous Steam Trials of the ``Lusitania'' . . . 130--130
Anonymous ``Cecilie'': The Fastest
Reciprocating-Engine Liner Afloat . . . 130--130
Anonymous Government Fuel Tests at Jamestown . . . 131--131
Anonymous The 24-Hour Automobile Race on the
Brighton Beach Track . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Opening of the Large Drydock at League
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Randolph I. Geare Magical Cures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Wilmar F. Lent A Home-Made Alternating-Current
Rectifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous The Meats We Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
M. J. Peltier The ``Typhonoid'' --- a New Type of
Motor Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Day Allen Willey Magnified Models of Insect Pests . . . . 137--138
Jacques Boyer Employment of High-Frequency Currents in
Therapeutics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Anonymous An Improvement in Safety Razors . . . . 139--139
Anonymous A Novel Vehicle Spring . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous An Improved Invalid's Bed . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Barrel Stand and Truck . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 156--159
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Combined Reciprocating and Turbine
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Anonymous United States and British Gunnery . . . 146--146
Anonymous Health Conditions in the Subway . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Fulton the Father of Commercial
Steamboat Navigation . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous The Competition for the
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Machine Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous ``Black Art'' Redivivus . . . . . . . . 148--148
Percy Collins Striking a Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Anonymous The Races for the Astor and King's Cup 151--151
F. C. Kuntz Some Notable German Bridges . . . . . . 151--154
George R. Marriner The Sheep-Killing Kea . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Variable Pressure Mechanism for Air
Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 15--16
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Retrospect of the Year 1907 . . . . . . 4--5
Day Allen Willey A North Carolina Power Dam . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Signal Lights for Breeches Buoys . . . . 7--7
Anonymous The Fastest Warships Afloat . . . . . . 10--10
J. F. Howell Target Practice --- One Element of our
National Coast Defense . . . . . . . . . 10--12
William Allen A Motor for Winter Traction . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Device for Stretching Wire . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Novel Attachment for Agricultural
Implements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Safety Plate for Horseshoes . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Covering for Automobile Tires . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Mail Deliverer and Receiver . . . . . . 13--14
Anonymous Lock for Vehicle Seats . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous An Improved Marking Gage . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 172--175
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Heavy Traffic through the Newly-Opened
Hudson Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Double-Door Cars for Subway Congestion 162--162
Anonymous Urgent Need for the Catskill Water
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous The Alleged Patent Office Frauds . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Sand Building-Bricks . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Experiments with Recent French
Aeroplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Anonymous Progress of the Catskill Water Supply 165--166
Anonymous II --- The British Navy of To-Day . . . 167--170
Frank J. Kenney A Simple Wireless Telegraph Detector . . 170--170
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Stamp-Affixing Machine . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Improved Plane Provided with Adjustable
Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous An Improved Washing Machine . . . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 189--191
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous Books: New Books Etc . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 192--195
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Cause of the Quebec Bridge Failure . . . 178--178
Anonymous Second Pennsylvania East River Tube
Finished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Extemporized Jet Propulsion . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous The Ocean Mail Bill . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous The Crookedness of the Hudson Tunnel . . 178--178
Anonymous Submarines Versus Battleships . . . . . 178--179
Anonymous An International Life-Saving Congress 179--179
Anonymous Radiography in Pearl Fishing . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., February, 1908 . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous A New Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous A Motor Ice Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous The Fastest Ship in the American Navy 180--180
Herbert T. Wade Poetry and Speech Subjects of Scientific
Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Jacques Boyer A Hospital for Small Animals . . . . . . 184--184
C. H. Claudy The Ourdan Engraving Machine . . . . . . 185--188
Owen Macdonald The United States Military Academy at
West Point --- Where the American
Officer is Trained . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Joining the Blackwell's Island Bridge
Cantilevers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous New Transatlantic Records . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous A New Explanation of Raised Ocean
Beaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Competition in Submarine Construction 198--199
Anonymous Reinforced Concrete in Shipbuilding . . 199--199
Anonymous How to Take Advantage of Variations in
Rates of Gas and Electricity . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous The Use of the Cinematograph in Medicine 199--199
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Death of John Burry . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous The First Successful Trial of a New
American Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
W. Frank M'clure The Largest Fresh-Water Dock in the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
S. A. Mitchell Water Vapor on Mars . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
J. Springer The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained 202--203
Anonymous A Unique System of Illumination for
Harbor Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Alfred Gradenwitz The Mutual Relations of Geometry and
Mechanics and Prof. Reuleaux's
Mechanical Movements . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Gustave Michaud Photographs with Tapestry Effects . . . 206--206
Anonymous An Improved Railway Spike . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Combined Chair and Cabinet . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Ax Attachment for Sawing Logs . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Combined Steam and Hot-Water Heating
Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Bell Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 230--235
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Acetylene Lamps and Smoky Automobiles 218--218
Anonymous The Comparative Trials of Our Scout
Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous The New York High-Pressure Fire
Protection System . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Charles Christadoro ``Gluten'' Bread and Cracker Frauds . . 219--219
Anonymous Rubber Statistics of 1907 . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous A Reinforced Concrete Elevated Tank . . 220--220
Anonymous New Process for Making Shoes . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous An Automatic Milk Supply . . . . . . . . 220--220
Gustave Michaud Some Experiments with Carbon Disulphide 221--221
Anonymous An Observatory for Public Use . . . . . 221--222
Anonymous Curious Facts about Numbers . . . . . . 222--223
Anonymous Joining of Last Span of Blackwell's
Island Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous How to Construct a Balloon. --- The
Making, Inflating and Sailing of Gas
Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--227
J. F. Springer The Ever-Shifting Eyeball. --- Some New
Experiments and Some New Conclusions . . 227--228
Anonymous New Types of Lifebelts . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 248--251
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous The Peril of the Turnstile Door . . . . 238--238
Anonymous The Senate Hearing on the Alleged
Defects of our Navy . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Government Aid in the Development of
Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Herbert W. Horwill Scientists at Play . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Decolorizing Power of Animal Charcoal 239--239
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 239--239
L. F. Wilson Lowering the Traction Tunnels Tinder the
Chicago River . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Anonymous Japanese Battleship ``Iwami'' as she was
and is --- a Lesson in ``Freeboard'' . . 241--242
Anonymous Lippmann's Method of Stereophotography
without a Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous A New Apparatus for Submarine Operations 243--243
Jacques Boyer The Manufacture of Mechanical Organs . . 244--245
S. A. Mitchell Saturn's Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Gas Engine Igniter . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Casting Tool for Printing Offices . . . 247--247
Anonymous Improved Sash Lock . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous An Improved Gasoline Trap . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 264--267
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous British and American Railway Accidents 254--254
Anonymous East River Bridge Number Five . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Great Economy of Electric Traction on
Steam Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Oil Fuel in the British Navy . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous A Producer-Gas-Driven Automobile . . . . 255--255
J. W. Moultrie Lime Beton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous The Latest International Aeronautic
Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Extermination of Mosquitoes by Cactus
Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous The First Two-Passenger Aeroplane . . . 256--256
Anonymous A Physician's Novel Use of an Automobile
Acetylene Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous A Salvage Dock for Submarines . . . . . 257--257
Jacques Boyer The New Refuse Receptacles of Paris. ---
a Suggestion for American Municipalities 257--258
Anonymous The Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge . . . . 258--258
Riley M. Fletcher Berry The Recent Work of Luther Burbank . . . 260--262
Anonymous The Use of Balloons for the Prevention
of Hail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Barnum Brown Trachodont, the Duck-Billed Dinosaur.
--- Skeletons of Prehistoric Reptiles
More Than Three Million Years Old . . . 262--263
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 281--282
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 283--287
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Healthy Conditions at Panama in 1907 . . 270--270
Anonymous Safety of the Brooklyn Bridge . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Double-Deck Subway Express Stations . . 270--270
Anonymous Heroic Measures in Hudson Tunnel
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous Safety Devices on Railroads . . . . . . 270--271
Anonymous The Aviation Section of the Aero Club of
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous New York's Automobile Carnival and Hill
Climb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
L. F. Wilson Facts about the Use of the Air Brake . . 271--271
Anonymous Second Exhibition of Safety Devices . . 271--271
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
F. C. Coleman The Latest Development in British
Railway Locomotive Design . . . . . . . 272--272
William H. Place Weather Vane with Attachment for Indoor
Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
Jacques Boyer A Machine that Saws 240,000 Wooden
Paving Blocks in a Day . . . . . . . . . 273--274
J. F. Springer Is the Axis of the Earth Shifting? . . . 274--275
Anonymous Successful Test of the Cornu Helicopter 276--276
Anonymous The United States Battleships
``Delaware'' and ``North Dakota'' . . . 276--278
Anonymous Puck's Conception of the
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Tobacco Hanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Thill Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Revolving Flash Lamp . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Pneumatic Valve Mechanism for Piano
Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Anonymous A New Type of Automobile Horn . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous A Machine for Vending Postage Stamps . . 280--280
Anonymous Frying Pan with Folding Handle . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 300--303
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Reinforcement of the Brooklyn Subway
Tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous The Panic and the Railroads . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Report on the Quebec Bridge Disaster . . 290--290
Anonymous Urgent Need of Forest Preservation . . . 290--290
Anonymous The British Naval Programme for 1908 . . 290--291
Anonymous Delagrange's Record Aeroplane Flight . . 291--291
William P. Munger Improvement of the American Merchant
Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous A New Process in Milling . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Combined Mutoscope and Talking Machine 292--292
Gustave Michaud A Simple Apparatus for Generating
Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Convertible Military Transport Motor
Wagon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
R. Newton A Clock with a Single Wheel . . . . . . 293--293
Alfred Gradenwitz The Explorations of the German Orient
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Day Allen Willey The Practical Work of the United States
Bureau of Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Anonymous The United States Training Ship
``Severn'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Frederic R. Honey Some Phases of the Planets in 1908 . . . 298--298
Anonymous American Turbines for the Japanese
Armored Cruiser ``Ibuki'' . . . . . . . 299--299
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 319--323
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Sir William White on the American Navy 306--306
Anonymous The Senate, the \booktitleScientific
American, and the New York Sun . . . . . 306--307
Anonymous Erecting the First Cored Monolith . . . 307--307
Anonymous The Stock Car Race for the Briarcliff
Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Gustave Michaud How Stereoscopic Effects may be Produced
with a Pinhole Diaphragm . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous A Campanile 700 Feet High . . . . . . . 310--310
Alfred Gradenwitz The Berlin Oceanographic Museum . . . . 312--314
Anonymous Fireless Locomotives in Germany . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Locking Device for Screws . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Grinding Attachment for Check Valves . . 315--315
Anonymous A Camp on Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous An Attachment for Trolley Car Poles . . 315--315
Anonymous Oddities in Inventions . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 337--337
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 338--339
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 339--343
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Criticism of Catskill Water Supply
Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Coal consumption, of the ``Lusitania'' 326--326
Anonymous Spraying Roads with Tar . . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Phenomenal Speed of Latest Torpedoes . . 326--326
Anonymous Germany's Great Armored Cruiser . . . . 326--326
Anonymous The World's Shipbuilding . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Collecting the Venom from a Lancehead
Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Marcus Benjamin National Academy of Sciences . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous For Practical Forestry . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Jacques Boyer Cutting Metals with Oxygen . . . . . . . 328--328
Herbert T. Wade Gas Phosphorescence and Meteor Trains 329--330
Anonymous A Submarine Boat for Sponge Fishing . . 330--330
Anonymous Cheap Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Some Notable Groups of North American
Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Edgar J. Banks The Origin of the Star and Crescent . . 334--334
W. Frank M'clure A New Inspection Locomotive . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Shipping Submarines Intact to the
Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous The Record Flight of the Delagrange
Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Important Change of Panama Canal Locks 22--22
Anonymous Our Decadent Merchant Marine . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Prevention of ``Flarebacks'' in Modern
Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Warship Construction at our Navy Yards 22--23
Anonymous A New Coin Counter . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Economic Waste of Accidents . . . . 23--23
C. E. Hutchinson Habits of the Tarantula . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., December, 1907 . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Day Allen Willey Winter Fires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous An Apparatus for Indicating Fire Damp in
Coal Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
W. G. Fitz-Gerald A Railroad in Miniature --- a Toy Line
which Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Katherine Louise Smith The Most Wonderful Railroad of the North 29--30
Jacques Boyer Tissot's Respiratory Apparatus . . . . . 30--31
S. A. Mitchell Great Storms on the Sun . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 358--363
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Anonymous Investigations for the Gatun Dam . . . . 346--346
Anonymous To Secure Better Rails . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous A Heat Flywheel . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Former Chief Engineer Stevens on the
Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Metchnikoff's Theory of Longevity . . . 347--347
Anonymous Copper-Clad Steel . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Machine for Making Window Glass . . . . 347--347
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Motors for Viticulture . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous The Wright Aeroplane Experiments . . . . 347--347
Anonymous The ``Caterpillar'' Tractor . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Range and Position Finders for Coast
Artillery Fire Control . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Frederic R. Honey The Annular Eclipse of the Sun in June,
1908 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous A Magazine for the Blind . . . . . . . . 351--352
C. H. Claudy How Cave Air is Used to Regulate the
Temperature of a House . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Anonymous A New Electric Renovator . . . . . . . . 355--355
Frank C. Perkins A French Universal System of Machine
Molding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Folding Washing Machine for Stationary
Tubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Hose Nozzle with Movable Spray Cap . . . 356--356
Anonymous Improved Switchboard Plug . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Folding Step Ladder . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous President Roosevelt on the Conservation
of Our Natural Resources . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Safety of the Blackwell's Island Bridge 366--366
Anonymous A City of Towers . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Progress of the Wright Aeroplane
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Postal Railway in Berlin . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Experiments with a Postal Automobile in
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Protection for Patents and Trade Marks
of Goods to be Exhibited . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Sending Wireless Messages to a Balloon 367--367
Jacques Boyer The Use of the Air Brush in the
Decoration of Wall Paper and Fabrics . . 368--368
Anonymous Maximum Economical Storage Capacity of
the Croton Watershed . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
R. G. Skerrett Control by Sound Waves . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Day Allen Willey Forest Destruction and the Erosion of
Arable Lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Anonymous Extracting the Venom from Lancehead
Snake for Medicinal Use . . . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous The Largest Clock in the World . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous A New Type of Filter . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous Gathering and Loading Fork . . . . . . . 376--376
Anonymous A Computing Cheese Cutter . . . . . . . 376--376
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 399--403
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Gratifying Decrease in Railway Accidents 386--386
Anonymous Mr. Hill on Our Natural Resources . . . 386--386
Anonymous Lowering the Transatlantic Record . . . 386--386
Anonymous Our Rank as Second Naval Power . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous Severe Fire Tests for Skyscrapers . . . 386--386
Anonymous Automobile Sled for Dr. Charcot's
Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Percival A. Hislam The British ``Dreadnought'' Cruisers . . 389--390
Anonymous First Flights of the Aerial Experiment
Association's Second Aeroplane . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous The Wright Aeroplane Test in North
Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Berthold Laufer Chinese Pigeon Whistles . . . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous A New Automatic Violin Player . . . . . 395--395
Gustave Michaud An Oral System of Telegraphy . . . . . . 395--395
Anonymous Incandescent Gas Lamp with
Self-Generated Forced Draft . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 416--419
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 419--419
Anonymous Battle Test of a 12-Inch Turret . . . . 406--406
Anonymous The Capacity of the Subway . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Rectangular Latticed Compression Members
in Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
William J. Manning Permanent Printed Records on Linen . . . 407--407
Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous The Award of the \booktitleScientific
American Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Grace Agnes Thompson The Largest Reflecting Telescope in the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Anonymous Panama Canal: Final Plan and Present
Condition of the Work . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anonymous The Mechanics of ``Autos that Pass in
the Air'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Knudsen's Process of Transmitting
Pictures by Wireless Telegraphy . . . . 412--412
Jacques Boyer The Insect Enemies of Books . . . . . . 413--414
Anonymous A New Sun Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--415
Anonymous An Improved Saw Handle . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Rack for Coats, Wraps, and Other
Garments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Power Transmission Mechanism . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Tongs with Adjustable Jaws . . . . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 432--432
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 432--435
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Anonymous Airship Follies . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--422
Anonymous A Marine Steam Turbine Anomaly . . . . . 422--422
Anonymous Admiral Evans's Report on the Needs of
our Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--423
Orville Wright and
Wilbur Wright Our Aeroplane Tests at Kitty Hawk . . . 423--423
Anonymous Death of Francis B. Stevens . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Death of Miss Tyler . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Future Foreign Postage Reduction with
Great Britain and Colonies . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous The New Method of Trying Battleships . . 424--425
E. M. Douglas Sun Dials: How they are Made and Used 425--427
Day Allen Willey Towing Tank at the University of
Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429
J. Mayne Baltimore A Machine for Burning Weeds along
Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--429
Anonymous Removing the Grand Central Train Shed
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--429
Anonymous A Gigantic Airship Disaster . . . . . . 430--431
Anonymous The British Challenger for the
Harmsworth Motor-Boat Trophy. --- a
400-Horse-Power Racing Craft . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 448--451
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous The Cost of Government . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous The Double-Flow Turbine . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Government Tests of Railway Safety
Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Congress Increases Patent Office
Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438
Anonymous Improvement of New Jersey--New York
Suburban Service --- I . . . . . . . . . 438--439
Anonymous The Autogenous Soldering of Aluminium in
Aeronautic Construction . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous A New Balloon Material . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 439--439
John R. Cox Training in the Navy . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
C. H. Claudy New Electrical Apparatus of the United
States Signal Corps . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Anonymous The Motor-Boat Race to Bermuda . . . . . 442--442
Anonymous Farman's Aeroplane Flights in Belgium 443--444
W. Frank M'Clure Making Casts in Gelatin Molds . . . . . 445--445
Anonymous A German Compass-Testing Station . . . . 445--445
Alfred Gradenwitz A Remarkable Mountain Railway . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous An Aero Tube Flying Machine . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Pipe and Rod Lifting Tongs . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous An Improved Dabbing Brush . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Bracket Hose Reel . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Saw Swage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 464--465
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 466--471
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Anonymous Inspection of Niagara Falls Power
Company Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous First Cable Strung on Manhattan Bridge 454--454
Anonymous The Gas Driven Warship . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Brilliant Medical Work of Col. Gorgas at
Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous An Incandescent Lamp without a Vacuum 454--454
Anonymous Reduction of Foreign Parcel Postal Rates 455--455
Anonymous Delagrange to Come to America . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Torpedo Attack on the Monitor
``Florida'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--456
Anonymous The Taxicab in Old Rome . . . . . . . . 456--456
Anonymous Seeing from Paris to Rome . . . . . . . 457--457
Frank C. Perkins The Modern Farmer's Tireless Horse . . . 458--458
J. B. Van Brussel A Curious Electric Elevator . . . . . . 460--460
Newton Forest Russell A Philippine Leper Colony . . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous New Grouping of Stars in the United
States Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--463
H. M. Masdell A Clever Substitute for a Drydock . . . 463--463
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 48--51
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous The Reuterdahl Attack on our Navy . . . 38--39
Anonymous Inauguration of Electric Trains under
the Hudson and East Rivers . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Why not an American ``Scientists'
Corner'' in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous The Use of Glass Fabrics in the
Electrical and Chemical Industries . . . 39--39
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous New European Aeroplanes and Airships . . 40--41
L. F. Wilson Jet Condensers and the Chicago to the
Gulf Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous A Novel Sand Plow for Saving Ships . . . 42--42
Walter L. Beasley The Huichol Indians of Mexico . . . . . 44--46
Anonymous How the Speed of Light is Measured . . . 46--46
Anonymous Placer Mining by a Combination of
Hydraulic and Electric Methods . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Automatic Weighing Machine . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Traveling Cards for Car Advertising . . 47--47
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 65--67
Anonymous Index of Inventions: Notes and Queries 67--67
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Panama Canal to Cost \$300,00,00? . . . 54--54
Anonymous The Pennsylvania Tunnel Excavation
Beneath Manhattan Completed . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Great Increase in Transatlantic Travel 54--54
Anonymous The Farman Aeroplane Wins the Deutsch
Archdeacon Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Pure Hydrogen from Carbides . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous The Patent Office in 1907 . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous The Pacific Scientific Institution of
Honolulu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous International Investigation of the Upper
Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous A Unique Aerial Tramway Used in the
Construction of Chicago's Lake Tunnel 56--56
Alfred Gradenwitz A Photographic Method of Producing
Bas-Reliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Anonymous The Reuterdahl Attack on our Navy . . . 60--62
Percy Collins Insects that are Eaten . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous An Improved Bale Tie . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Device for Pulling Spokes . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous An Improved Portable Concrete Mixer . . 64--64
Anonymous An Apparatus for Electrically
Transmitting Sight . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous A Year's Progress on the Panama Canal 74--74
Anonymous The Lessons of the Parker Building Fire 74--74
Anonymous The Enlargement of the Assouan Dam . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Fastest Warship Afloat . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Pennsylvania Railroad Delays
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous A \$25,000 Prize for a Mathematical
Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous A Strip of Territory Added to Alaska . . 75--75
Anonymous A Universal Bench Vise . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous A Motor Chair Invented by a Woman . . . 76--76
Anonymous Chess in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Erection of the Manhattan Bridge across
the East River . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous An Open-Air Veneer Machine . . . . . . . 80--80
Herbert T. Wade How our Measures of Length are Tested 80--82
Anonymous How we know that the Earth Rotates . . . 82--82
Harold J. Shepstone A Famous Taxidermist and His Methods . . 83--83
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous The Hudson River Pierhead Line Should be
Extended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Progress on the New York Barge Canal ---
and a Suggestion . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous The Recent Criticisms of our Navy . . . 90--90
Anonymous The World's Production of Cereals . . . 90--91
George Frederic Stratton The Making of an Electrical Engineer . . 91--91
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous The Prize-Winning Circular Flight of the
Farman Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Herbert T. Wade The International Bureau of Weights and
Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous New Terminal Station and Approaches of
the Brooklyn Bridge . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Gobelin Tapestry Works . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Frank C. Perkins A New Solar Power Plant . . . . . . . . 97--98
Charles Forbes Foucault's Pendulum Experiment Repeated
at Columbia University . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Safety Lock for Switch Stands . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Basket Holder for Fruit Pickers . . . . 99--99
Anonymous A Novel Observation Swing . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Southwest Pass Jetties of the
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Anonymous Progress of the Key West Railroad . . . 106--106
Anonymous The Last of the Cable Roads . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous More Block Signals; Fewer Accidents . . 106--106
Anonymous Precautions against Anthracite Mining
Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous Turbines in the United States Navy . . . 107--107
Anonymous Mine Blasting Invention . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The Use of the Lumi\`ere System of Color
Photography in Medicine . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Exposition of Safety Devices . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Growing Rubber in Sumatra . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous The Tunis Monorail System . . . . . . . 108--108
Charles R. King A High-Power European Locomotive . . . . 108--109
Day Allen Willey A Reinforced Concrete Hotel . . . . . . 109--110
Frederic R. Honey Morning and Evening Stars for 1908 . . . 110--111
Herbert T. Wade Magnetic Survey on the Pacific Ocean . . 112--113
Anonymous The Sampson Gas-Electric Road Train . . 114--114
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Ice Tongs with Weighing Attachment . . . 115--115
Anonymous Safety Clutch for Elevators . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous An Improved Draft Regulator and
Ventilator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Cutting Tool for use in Making Paper
Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Where the Reciprocating Engine Drove Out
the Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Steel
Rail Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous ``The Navy'' and Naval Criticism . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Designers of the Brooklyn Bridge
Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Award of the Army Aeroplane Contracts 123--123
Anonymous When Was the First Pendulum Experiment
Performed in this Country? . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Lemoine and His Artificial Diamonds . . 123--123
Anonymous Asbestos Slates --- a German Invention 123--123
Anonymous Extermination of Fruit Pests in
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Opening of the Hudson River Tunnel
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
Frederic Blount Warren The Testing of a Locomotive . . . . . . 126--127
Paul J. Brand Closing a 700-Foot Break in the
Mississippi Levees . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
L. E. Moss Sending the Whalebacks Out to Sea . . . 129--130
René Bache The Efficiency of the Human Machine . . 130--130
Anonymous Shipping Can for Transporting Milk . . . 131--131
Anonymous An Improved Fish-Line Float . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Safety Connection for Gas Stoves . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Micrometer Attachment for Calipers and
the Like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Shall America Take the Lead in
Aeronautics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Under-Water Attack of Ships by Gunfire 138--138
Anonymous Speed of Government and Private
Excavation Compared . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
B. S. Bowdish The Relation of the Audubon Movement to
the Sportsman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Wilbur Wright Flying as a Sport --- Its Possibilities 139--139
Anonymous Some Impressive Wireless Statistics . . 139--139
Anonymous Modern Seven-League Boots . . . . . . . 140--140
Percy Collins Nature's Flying Machines . . . . . . . . 140--142
H. Percy Ashley An Ice Yacht with a Hollow Backbone and
250 Square Feet Sail Area . . . . . . . 142--143
Anonymous A Record-Breaking Automobile Bus . . . . 144--144
Day Allen Willey Mountaineering in the Himalayas --- The
Hardships of Climbing at High Altitudes 144--145
Harry Wilkin Perry Motor Boating for the Man of Small Means 146--147
Anonymous A New Target Grip . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous The New Syracuse University Stadium ---
The Finest Athletic Arena in America . . 148--150
Peter Coleman Fish Doctoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Improvements in Timers . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous The Fastest Warship Afloat . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Present Condition of the Pan-American
Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Conservation of Our Fuel Resources . . . 4--4
Anonymous Power Consumption in the Rapid Transit
Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Steel Ties on Roads with Heavy Traffic 4--4
Anonymous The Irrigation of Egypt and the Success
of the Aswan Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Special Schools for Eminently Gifted
Pupils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Emanation of Sodium . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous The Outcome of the Lemoine Case . . . . 5--5
Jacques Boyer The Curiosities of Feeling, Hearing,
Seeing and Smelling . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
William L. Finley The California Condor . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Day Allen Willey The Great Roosevelt Irrigation Dam . . . 10--11
Frank C. Perkins The German Battleship ``Braunschweig'' 12--12
Anonymous The ``June Bug'' Aeroplane --- a
Competitor for the \booktitleScientific
American Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous An Aeronautic Society for Inventors . . 13--13
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 160--163
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Anonymous Ornamental Elevated Structures . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Experimental Dams at the Panama Canal 150--150
Anonymous The Street Noise Crusade and the Rail
Joint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous A Delayed-Action Torpedo . . . . . . . . 150--150
Anonymous Ferment of Egg Yolk . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous Reinforced Concrete as a Building
Material for Boats . . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
I. C. Bayley Repairing Railroad Picks . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous The British 38-Knot Destroyer ``Swift'' 156--156
Anonymous The Mari-Kanave Dam in Southern India 156--157
Day Allen Willey Antique Bronze Cannon at Annapolis and
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Gustave Michaud Three Optical Illusions . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous The New Davis Projectile Torpedo . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Anonymous Is the Aeroplane Practicable for
Scouting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Manufacturing Under the Requirements of
the British Patent Act . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Proposals for Cooling the Subway . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Improvement of New Jersey--New York
Suburban Service --- III . . . . . . . . 166--167
Alton D. Adams Acetylene Gas for Isolated Street Lamps 167--167
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., August, 1908 . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Excavations at Abydos . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Herbert T. Wade Sugar Testing in the United States
Customs Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous The First Flight of the Wright Aeroplane
at Fort Myer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous A Huge Bucket Dredger . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Frederic R. Honey The Recurrence of Eclipses . . . . . . . 171--171
Alfred Gradenwitz A Police Academy at Rome . . . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous The New German Racing Schooner
``Germania'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
D. T. Macdougal The Faculties of Plants . . . . . . . . 174--175
H. A. Crafts Modern Improvements in Drydock
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 193--193
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 194--196
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 196--199
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous The Rebuilding of the Quebec Bridge . . 182--182
Anonymous Improved Rails by the Dry-Blast System 182--182
Anonymous Progress in the Gas-Driven Ship Problem 182--182
Anonymous More Powerful Express Locomotives . . . 182--182
Anonymous Future Speed of Cruisers . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous The Making of Aeroplane History . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Doubtful Cases of Radioactivity . . . . 182--183
J. F. Springer A Few Facts about Fakes . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous The Morehouse Comet Observed . . . . . . 183--183
Day Allen Willey Reconstruction of the Baltimore & Ohio
Bridge Over the Susquehanna River . . . 184--184
Anonymous The Collins System of Long-Distance
Wireless Telephony . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Anonymous Public Service Car Fender and Wheel
Guard Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous IV. --- The French Navy of To-Day . . . 187--189
Anonymous The ``Flip-Flap'' . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
G. W. MacMurray Protecting Trains Under the East River 191--191
Anonymous Shaft Sinking by the Freezing Process 191--191
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Ore Concentrator . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous An Improved Pipe Wrench . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Attachment for Letter Boxes . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous A Simple Package Tie . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
Anonymous Lessons of the Wright Aeroplane Disaster 202--202
Anonymous Some Submarine Successes . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Our Ponderous Passenger Cars . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Repairing the Concrete Pier of a Bridge
by Injection of Liquid Cement Mortar . . 203--203
Edwin Phillips A Few Suggestions for Inventors of
Safety Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous The Narrowing of the Ganges and
Construction of the Curzon Bridge . . . 204--204
Anonymous Sawing a Building in Two . . . . . . . . 205--206
Anonymous The Construction of the Wright Aeroplane 209--210
Anonymous An Early Armor-Piercing Gun . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Car Fender Tests by the Public Service
Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Notes and Queries: Note and Queries . . 229--231
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 232--235
Anonymous The Naval Aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Yacht Racing in 1908 . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Water Storage Destroys the Typhoid
Bacillus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous Progress on Panama and Erie Canals
Compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Anonymous The Liner ``Cleveland'' Launched . . . . 219--219
Anonymous A Motor-Car Lock is Wanted . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous The New York State Barge Canal . . . . . 220--222
Anonymous The Price of Water . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Percy Colins Table-Top Photography . . . . . . . . . 224--226
Hereward Carrington Hindu Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Some Recent Toys and Tricks . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Tire for Automobile Wheels . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous An Automatic Gas Lighter . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 248--251
Anonymous Encouraging Decrease of Idle Cars . . . 238--238
Anonymous Postal Tubes in the Subways . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous The Enormous Loss by Forest Fires . . . 238--238
Anonymous The Schenectady Car Fender Tests . . . . 238--238
Anonymous A Four-Track Freight Tunnel for
Manhattan Island . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Nasmyth --- The Centenary of a Great
Inventor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
William Allen Fall of the B. & O. Susquehanna Bridge 240--240
Herbert T. Wade The Sun's Radiation and Its Study . . . 241--242
Anonymous The Paper Industry as Related to Forests
and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous The Multiple Air Propeller. Its
Aeronautic Possibilities for Dirigible
Airships, Aeroplanes, and Helicopters 244--244
Day Allen Willey The Naval Stores Industry . . . . . . . 245--246
Charles Christadoro The Evolution of the Dovetailed Box . . 247--247
Anonymous Cutting Wood with Paper . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous A Universal Joint of Simple Design . . . 247--247
Anonymous How to Obtain Fresh Water from Sea Water 247--247
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 267--267
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 267--271
Anonymous Some Theories Verified . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Langley --- a Tribute . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Wanted: A Sanitary Railway Car . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous The Eyes of Plants . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous A New Ice-Making Machine for Domestic
Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Anonymous A Rescue Training School and
Experimental Gallery for Miners . . . . 260--261
Walter L. Beasley New Fossil Wonders from the Fayum of
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Anonymous Polishing the great Cullinan Diamond . . 262--262
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
A. Fagan A Simple Method for Making a Coiled
Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
John R. Allen A Home-Made Wimshurst Machine . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous A Blacksmith's Napkin Ring . . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous An Unbreakable Leyden Jar . . . . . . . 264--264
A. E. Osborn A Simple Foot-Power Compound Grinder . . 264--264
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 285--288
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 288--291
Anonymous The Balloon in Foggy Weather . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Our Macadamized Road Fiasco . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Flarebacks in the French Navy . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Manufacturing Paper from Cornstalks . . 274--274
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous An Automobile for Horses . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Original Method of Making a Railroad
Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Harold J. Shepstone The Mountain Telescopes of Switzerland 277--278
Anonymous V --- The Japanese Navy of To-Day . . . 279--282
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Door Check and Closes . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Water Current Motor . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Improved Railway Spike . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous An Improved Telegraph Sounder . . . . . 283--283
Anonymous Report of the Commissioner of Patents 284--284
Anonymous A New Shutter Attachment . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous An Improved Air Pump . . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 304--307
Anonymous That Newport Conference . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous The Force involved in Automobile
Collisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race . . . . . . 294--294
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Anonymous The Knudsen Wireless Typewriter . . . . 296--297
Percival Hislam Salving the Wrecked British Cruiser
``Gladiator'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous Fire-Control Masts . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Curious Facts about Numbers . . . . . . 299--299
Jacques Boyer The Manufacture of Incandescent Gas
Mantles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
L. B. Ward The ``Lifting Process'' in the Quarrying
of Granite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Day Allen Willey The Yuma Irrigation Dam . . . . . . . . 302--303
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 321--323
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 323--327
Anonymous A Precaution against Water Famine . . . 310--310
Anonymous Carnegie Meridian Astrometry Expedition 310--310
Anonymous Detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Air 310--310
Anonymous The Fallacy of Artificial Food . . . . . 310--310
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous The Fourth Vanderbilt Cup Automobile
Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Anonymous A Mammoth Gyratory Stone Crusher . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Was This an Aerolite? . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous A Paddle Wheel for Gliding Boats . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Electric Scrubber for Cleaning Ships'
Bottoms without Drydocking . . . . . . . 316--317
J. F. Springer Metallographs, or Photographs of the
Structure of Metal Specimens . . . . . . 317--318
L. Lodian Some Commercial Uses of the
Glass-Sponges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous A Painter's Platform Bracket . . . . . . 319--319
H. D. Chapman Screw-Slotting Attachment for Lathes . . 319--319
Anonymous A Guide for Drilling Horizontal Holes 319--319
J. A. Bergstrom Substitutes for a Pipe Wrench . . . . . 319--319
A. V. Searing Old Glue Pot as a Metal Pot and Ladle 319--319
Anonymous Starting Device for Siphons . . . . . . 319--319
Anonymous Rag Carpet Needle . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
W. J. C. Home-Made Vacuum Cleaner . . . . . . . . 320--320
Gustave Michaud A Stereoscope for Single Photographs . . 320--320
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Side Doors for Subway Cars . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Government Restrictions of Niagara Water
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Marine Engine Endurance . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Extensive Electrification of German
Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous A Question of Speed . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Electro-Plating Non-Metallic Articles 22--23
C. Field Further Notes on the Star and Crescent 23--23
Anonymous The Kaiser's Silver Flotilla at the
Berlin Shipbuilding Exhibition . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Official Meteorological Summary, New
York, N.Y., June, 1908 . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous No Award of the Prize for Humane
Slaughtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Successful Test of New York's New
High-Pressure Fire Service . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous The Trials of the Scout Cruiser
``Salem'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Otto G. Luyties Experiments with a Helicopter . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Government Tests of Mine Explosives . . 27--28
Harold J. Shepstone A Collection of Models of Old London . . 29--30
Anonymous The First Trial Flight of an Aeroplane
for the \booktitleScientific American
Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Book for Fish Hooks . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Attachment for Printing Stamps . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Hook for Garments . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 341--341
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
Anonymous Accuracy and Uniformity in Electrical
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous The Tactical Value of Torpedo Craft . . 330--330
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Herbert T. Wade Successful Test of New York's
High-Pressure Fire Service . . . . . . . 332--332
Day Allen Winley The Menace of the Forest Fire . . . . . 333--334
Anonymous The Launch of Our First ``Dreadnought'' 334--335
Anonymous A Multiple Cycle for the Blind . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Action Aloft; or Fighting Tops, Past and
Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--338
Anonymous The Aeronautic Society's First
Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Combined Poncho and Tent . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Plow for Turning the Surface Soil Under
the Subsoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous An Improved Winch . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Collapsible Step-Ladder . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Brake for Bob Sleds . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Waterproof Fuse Cap . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Novel Type of Plow . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Oddities in Invention . . . . . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 362--367
Anonymous A Monumental Blunder . . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous A New Era in Aeroplane Transport . . . . 350--350
Anonymous Wilbur Wright's Record for Height . . . 350--350
Anonymous The Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Robert Grimshaw A New Form of Telautograph . . . . . . . 352--352
S. A. Mitchell Cyclones on the Sun . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Jacques Boyer An Aeroplane Factory . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous The Latest European Airships and
Aeroplanes and Their Performances . . . 357--359
Anonymous Handy Man's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
B. A. Johns Ejector Made out of Pipe Fittings . . . 359--359
Walton Harrison Storage Battery without Chemicals . . . 359--359
Edward J. Tiede Convenient Holder for Sandpaper . . . . 359--359
I. C. Bayley The Construction of a Workshop . . . . . 359--360
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 384--387
Anonymous Technical Heads for Technical City
Departments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Making Rocks and Minerals Artificially 370--370
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Frederic R. Honey The Eclipse of the Sun and Lunar Appulse
in December, 1908 . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Launch of the ``North Dakota'' . . . . . 372--372
J. A. Fitzpatrick Is Concrete Steel a Permanent
Construction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous How India is Fighting the Plague --- the
Manufacture and Use of Anti-Plague
Vaccine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Jacques Boyer An Automobile Hoe . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
C. H. Claudy The Guiding Lights of Our Coasts . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Handyman's Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
George W. Naylor Roller Mounting for the Christmas Tree 378--378
A. V. Searing Folding Tree Stand . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
H. G. L. To Prevent the Christmas Tree from
Upsetting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
L. Gessford Handy A Christmas Tree Garden . . . . . . . . 379--379
G. H. Rutherford Protection for Christmas Tree Candles 379--379
Anonymous Some Home-Made Christmas Presents . . . 379--379
W. J. C. Copper-Plating Flowers and Other
Perishable Articles . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Ralph C. Davison Ornamental Concrete Flower Pots and How
to Make Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
B. A. Johns Home-Made Metal Lamp Shade . . . . . . . 380--381
Anonymous The Christmas Entertainment . . . . . . 381--381
Gustave Michaud A Trick with Tourmaline . . . . . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 418--423
Anonymous The Ethics of Criticism . . . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Some Early Light-Weight Motors . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Schooners for International Yacht Racing 392--392
Anonymous The Grand Prize Automobile Road Race and
Its Probable Successor . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Anonymous Aeronautical and Automobile . . . . . . 393--393
Anonymous Water Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--396
Anonymous The Catskill Water Supply . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous The City's Giant Bridges . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous The Williamsburg Suspension Bridge . . . 397--397
Anonymous The Manhattan Suspension Bridge . . . . 397--400
Anonymous The Queensborough Cantilever Bridge . . 400--400
Anonymous Tall Buildings of New York . . . . . . . 400--403
Anonymous Tunnels and Subways . . . . . . . . . . 404--407
Anonymous Harbor and Dock Improvements . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Railway Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal Station 409--410
Anonymous New Grand Central Terminal Station . . . 410--412
Anonymous Freight Distribution by Subway . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 437--438
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 438--439
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 439--439
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 439--443
Anonymous Legislation to Prevent Forest Fires . . 426--426
Anonymous Newport Conference Approves Designs of
New Battleships . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Detection of Sulphurous Acid in
Foodstuffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Brazilian Battleship ``Minas Geraes''
--- Most Powerful Fighting Ship Afloat 428--429
Anonymous A Hydraulic Drive System . . . . . . . . 429--430
James Cooke Mills New Discoveries about Lightning . . . . 430--430
Anonymous Progress on the Panama Canal . . . . . . 431--433
Anonymous Santos Dumont's Latest Aeroplane . . . . 433--433
Anonymous The Fourth Aeroplane of the Aerial
Experiment Association . . . . . . . . . 433--434
S. Frank Aaron Mechanism of the Ovipositor Drill . . . 435--435
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Grain-Washing Machine . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Novel Boat-Propelling Device . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Brake Mechanism for Wagons . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Improved Railroad Tie . . . . . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patent Causes . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 458--463
Anonymous President Roosevelt Would Reorganize the
Navy Department . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous Tribute to a Civilian Inventor . . . . . 446--446
Anonymous Aeronautics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Percival Hislam Battle Practice in the British Navy . . 448--449
F. C. Coleman How English Royalty Travels . . . . . . 449--449
Anonymous The Aeroplane Military Scout . . . . . . 450--450
Anonymous Curious Facts about Numbers . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Gun Erosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Artificial Sapphires . . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Jacques Boyer New Mechanical Toys . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Anonymous Destructive Fungus of White Cedar . . . 454--455
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
H. L. Whitemore Let the Clock Open the Furnace Drafts 455--455
Frederic R. Honey How to Use the Slide Rule . . . . . . . 455--456
L. G. Handy Simple Driver for Small Drills . . . . . 456--456
J. O. Brouillet Drilling Holes in Marbles . . . . . . . 456--456
I. G. Bayley Furnishing the Workshop . . . . . . . . 456--456
F. D. Sweet Device for Finding Centers of Round Work 456--456
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 476--476
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 476--478
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 478--478
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 478--480
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Anonymous Gatun Dam Facts Perverted . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Fashions in Electric Systems . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Manhattan Suspension Bridge to be
Investigated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
Anonymous Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
P. A. Hislam The Transportation of Submarines . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Farman's Experiments with his
Triple-Surface Aeroplane . . . . . . . . 468--469
Alfred Gradenwitz Models for Illustrating the Strain on
Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Anonymous Magnitude of the Salt Industry . . . . . 470--471
Anonymous A Defense of the Wright System of
Propellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
Day Allen Willey A Novel System of Concrete Construction 472--473
Otto Kretschmer Fast Steamers Built on ``Tetrahedral''
Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Arthur H. J. Keane A New and Interesting Motor Cycle . . . 474--475
Anonymous A New Incandescent Gas Mantle . . . . . 475--475
Crittenden Marriott The Measles Cannibal . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 48--51
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American
Aeronautical Trophy . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous The First 25-Knot Liner . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Aeronautics in War --- a \em Reductio ad
Absurdum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Peary's Quest of the North Pole . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Test of Safety Devices by the Public
Service Commission . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Anonymous The Present Position of the Darwinian
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 39--39
I. G. Bayley A Novel Music Stand or Book Rest . . . . 40--40
Anonymous A Machine for Handling Coke in the Yard 40--40
James Cooke Mills A Multiple Molding Machine . . . . . . . 41--41
F. C. Coleman A New British Locomotive . . . . . . . . 41--42
Anonymous A Selenium Photometer . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous The New French and German Airships
``République'' and ``Zeppelin IV'' . . . 43--44
Anonymous First Successful Flights of Blériot's No.
8 Monoplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous The Winning Flight of the ``June Bug''
Aeroplane for the \booktitleScientific
American Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Hatching Snakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
C. M. Foster Home-Made Rotary Printing Press Built of
Junk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Rope Bracket for Swing Seats . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous The Wreck of the White Mountain Express 54--54
Anonymous The Pros and Cons of the Marine Gas
Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous The Fifth Annual Automobile Tour for the
Glidden Trophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
S. A. Mitchell Some Results from the 1908 Total Solar
Eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Charles R. Stockard How Does an Egg Develop into an Animal? 56--58
Anonymous Comparison of a Steam-Driven and a
Gas-Driven Battleship of the Same Size
and Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Anonymous Limit of Height for Tall Buildings . . . 59--59
Anonymous The Widening of the Suez Canal . . . . . 60--62
Anonymous Preserving Grand Opera Records for
Future Generations . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Jacques Boyer The Soaring Flight of Birds Attained
Mechanically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Pollution of New York Harbor . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Good Work in the Rainy Season at Panama 70--70
Anonymous More Daylight for Recreation . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Relation of the Gas Producer to
Low-Grade Fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous A New Process for the Manufacture of
Copper Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Immortality of Micro-Organisms . . . . . 71--71
S. Leonard Bastin Some Home-Made Weather Instruments . . . 72--72
Day Allen Willey Irrigation of the Yuma Valley . . . . . 73--74
Anonymous Erecting the Construction Footways of
the Manhattan Bridge . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous The Work of a Nebraska Cyclone . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Improved Lock for Cars . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Non-Refillable Bottle . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Elevator for Raising Ore Concentrates 79--79
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous The Railroad Spike --- an Anachronism of
the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous A Talk with Henry Farman . . . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Clothing for the Tropics . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The Japanese Exposition . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The Calendar of the Inhabitants of Venus 87--87
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Our ``Notes and Queries'' Column . . . . 87--87
Anonymous A Machine for Piling Timber . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Artificial Sea Water . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
J. F. Springer The Mystery of Comets . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous III. --- The German Navy of To-Day . . . 91--94
Anonymous Progress of Excavation of Culebra Cut 94--94
Jacques Boyer The Opacity of Bones to Roentgen Rays as
an Indication of Age . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous The Successful Defender of the
International Motor Boat Cup . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous A Cruiser-Battleship Holds the
Transatlantic Record . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous The Zeppelin Airship Disaster . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous May a Manufacturer Buy a Patent, Never
Use It, and Sue for Infringement? . . . 102--103
J. F. Springer Color-Blindness . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Military Ballooning in Japan . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Harold J. Shepstone A Municipal ``Microbe Farm'' . . . . . . 104--104
Percy Collins The Evolution of the Blow . . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous The Mechanical Joys of Coney Island . . 108--110
Anonymous A No-Segment Graphite-Resistance
Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous The International Motor Boat Race for
the Harmsworth Trophy . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 129--129
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Paucity of Monuments to Engineers . . . 118--118
Anonymous International Electrical Units . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Improvement of New York--New Jersey
Suburban Service --- II . . . . . . . . 118--119
H. W. Horwill Science and the Schoolboy Mind . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous The Current Supplement . . . . . . . . . 119--119
W. Frank M'clure Dry Farming in Semi-Arid Districts . . . 120--121
Anonymous The Ekenberg Process for Manufacturing
Dried Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Side Launching of the U.S.S.
``Patuxent'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Recent Foreign Aeroplanes . . . . . . . 124--125
Anonymous The United States and British Government
Airships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous A Boat Made of Newspapers . . . . . . . 126--126
B. Leonard Bastin Why do Roots Grow Down and Shoots Grow
Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous Index of Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
Anonymous Patent Notes: Patents . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Is the Motor Bus Profitable? . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Proposed Test of Full-Sized Blackwell's
Island Bridge Chord . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous The Pneumatic Tire and the Heavy
Commercial Automobile . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous On Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
John Plummer The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition . . 135--135
Anonymous The Wright Aeroplane Tests . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Recent Military Dirigible Balloons . . . 135--135
Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
W. L. Salvage Wire Suspension Foot Bridge at Platt
National Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
J. F. Springer Testing for Hardness . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous A New Type of Clam-Shell Bucket . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Some Ingenious Foreign Inventions . . . 137--139
Anonymous Gasoline-Propelled Gunboats for River
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous The Wright Brothers' Aeroplane in France
and the United States . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous The Propagating Influence of
High-Tension Electric Currents Upon
Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Anonymous Patent Department . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Some Novel Types of Shaving Brushes . . 143--143
Anonymous Holder for Brooms and Similar Articles 143--143