Scientific American Magazine
Volume 78, Issue 6You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
Electricity to Replace Steam on the London Underground Railways
Cost of Steam in 1870 and 1897
Sprague Motor Patent Decision
The Third Rail System in Germany
Excellent Condition of the Iron and Steel Export Trade
The Turbine for United States Torpedo Boats
Smoke and Its Prevention
Striking Success of the Tin-Plate Industry in the Unites States
Annual Session of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Commerce on the Great Lakes
Petroleum Fuel
Government Tests of Timber
Japanese Cruiser Launched at Cramps' Yard
A Third East River Suspension Bridge
An Extensible Measuring Pole
A Puncture-Proof Tire
A Novel Repeating Pistol
A Cableway Carrier and Carriage
An Improved Rotary Engine
The Planet Venus
The Croton River Dam, New York Water Supply
Judge Arthur P. Greeley
The Spider and the Fly
A Brief for the Cigarette
To Inventors - February 5, 1898
Departments
The Heavens in February 1898
Correspondence - February 5, 1898
Recently Patented Inventions - February 5, 1898
Business and Personal - February 5, 1898
Notes and Queries - February 5, 1898
New Books, Etc - February 5, 1898
Index of Inventions - February 5, 1898
