Scientific American Magazine Vol 81 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 81, Issue 17

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Features

Hysteria and Yacht Racing

The "Denver" Class of Cruisers

Liquid Air Promoting

A Timely Rebuke

Government Advertising in France

The Boers and the Giraffe

American Steel for a Prince's Palace

A Long Photographic Telescope

The Defective Eyesight of School Children

Archelaus G. Field

Vitrified Claypipe Instead of Iron for Gas Mains

A Combined Walking and Sulky Plow

A Boiler with a Removable Fire Box

A Compact High Speed Engine

An Improvement in Friction Clutch-Pulleys

The Philadelphia Subway and Tunnel

Preliminary Skirmishing between "Shamrock" and "Columbia"

Boats and Sails

Walter Burnham Sails

Xiphopages, or Human Doubles

Total Eclipses of the Sun

With Some Reference to The Next Eclipse Visible in The Southern States, May 28, 1900

G. E. Lumsden

To Inventors - October 21, 1889

Departments

Correspondence - October 21, 1899

Recently Patented Inventions - October 21, 1899

Notes and Queries - October 21, 1889

Index of Inventions - October 21, 1899

Business and Personal - October 21, 1899

New Books, Etc.- October 21, 1899

Patents - October 21, 1889