Scientific American Magazine
Volume 77, Issue 16You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
The Return of the Peary Expedition
Rapid Transit Scheme Approved by the Park Board
The Suppression of a Fraudulent System of Patent Practice
Another Runaway Elevator
The American Institute Fair, New York
Opening of the Pneumatic Postal Tube Service in New York City
New Eastward Record for the Liner Kaiser Wilhelm
The Lowell Textile School
An Improved Boiler Tube Cleaner
A New Hand Dynamo
A Rail Joint Support and Bearing Plate
A Floating Dry Dock for Havana
The Parasites of Ants
Departments
Recently Patented Inventions - October 16, 1897
New Books, Etc. - October 16, 1897
Index of Inventions - October 16, 1897
Business and Personal - October 16, 1897
Notes and Queries - October 16, 1897
Patents - October 16, 1897
