Scientific American Magazine Vol 78 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 78, Issue 14

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Features

A Spanish View of the American Navy

Bill to Increase the Patent Office Force

Four‐Cylinder Locomotives

Launch of the Battleships "Kearsarge" and "Kentucky"

The Fruits of Civil Service Reform

Forthcoming Telegraphic Tournament

A Casing for Shafts, Couplings, Etc.

An Improved Sash Supporter

An Improved Power Crank

Cultivating Cotton Plants

Wireless Telegraphy

Liquid Air and its Phenomena

W. C. Peckham

The Navies of the United States and Spain--A Comparison

The Total Solar Eclipse, January 22, 1898

Departments

The Heavens in April 1898

New Books, Etc. - April 2, 1898

Business and Personal - April 2, 1898

Recently Patented Inventions– April 2, 1898

Index of Inventions - April 2, 1898