Scientific American Magazine Vol 81 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 81, Issue 6

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Features

Automobile Motors

Firing High Explosives

Average Life of an Iron or Steel Bridge

An American Railway in China

A Commercial Need

Steel Dredges for New York Harbor

A Prize for a Life-Saving Appliance

Liquid Air in Medicine and Surgery

British Patents in 1898

Activity of American Consuls

Wurdemann's Dividing Engine

H. P. Sanders

An Improved Flue-Stopper

A New Wagon-Tongue Support

An Improved Turbine Water-Wheel

Conservation of Energy in the Human Body

The Pearl-Button Industry of the Mississippi River

Hugh M. Smith

Three-Pounder Semi-Automatic Gun

The Submarine Vessel "La France"

A Subterranean Industrial Plant

Electric Heating in a Carmelite Hospice

Departments

Correspondence - August 5, 1899

Recently Patented Inventions - August 5, 1899

Notes and Queries - August 5, 1899

New Books, Etc - August 5, 1899

Business and Personal - August 5, 1899

Index of Inventions - August 5, 1899