Scientific American Magazine Vol 79 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 79, Issue 13

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Features

The Transsi-Berian Rail-Road

Horace C. Hovey

Our New Possessions as a Field for Engineers

Dangers Attending So-Called Food Preservatives

Obstacles to South American Trade

Forethought in the Navy Department

Dr. John Hopkinson

The Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal

William Gilbert Irwin

Soap as a Disinfectant

Mount Yillimani Ascended

A New Tide Motor

The Largest Floating Dock in the World

Draught Attachment for Locomotives

Collapse of the Wilson Line Pier Shed at New York

A New Testing Valve

A New Light upon the Egyptians

Walter L. Beasley

Rapid-Fire Guns and Ammunition Supply in the United States Navy

Departments

Correspondence - September 24, 1898

Recently Patented Inventions - September 24, 1898

New Books, Etc. - September 24, 1898

Notes and Queries - September 24, 1898

To Inventors - September 24, 1898

Index of Inventions - September 24, 1898

Business and Personal - September 24, 1898