Scientific American Magazine Vol 81 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 81, Issue 13

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Features

Plant and Process for Fireproofing Wood

New Ways of Using the Big Corn Crop

Danger in the Approaches to the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Wireless Telegraphy to Report the Yacht Races

The "Oceanic"

Financial Problems of Cuba

Money Spent by Travelers

Government Aid in Forestry

Some Calendarial Facts about the Twentieth Century

News of Lieut. Peary

Observations of Polaris

A San Francisco Fire Fighter

Herbert I. Bennett

An Improved Vehicle-Tire

A Recently Invented Rotary Engine

The Grant Roller-Bearing

In the Path of the Porto Rican Hurricane

The "Great Eastern" and the "Oceanic"—A Comparison

A Novel Menu Card

The "Shamrock" Disabled

Departments

Correspondence - September 23, 1889

Notes and Queries - September 23, 1899

Recently Patented Inventions - September 23, 1899

Index of Inventions - September 23, 1899

Business and Personal - September 23, 1899

Patents - September 23, 1889