Scientific American Magazine
Volume 81, Issue 13You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
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
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