Scientific American Magazine Vol 81 Issue 23

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 81, Issue 23

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Features

The Explosive Features of Acetylene

The Yacht "Columbia" in European Waters

The New Naval Programme

"A Gross Error"

Cables of the New East River Bridge

Congress and the Nicaragua Canal

Death of Sir William Dawson

The Monument to Robert Fulton

Compressed Cork and Its Uses

American Fruits at the Paris Exposition

Can White Men Live in the Tropics?

The Tidal "Bore" at Moncton

Gustav Kobb

An Electric Flash-Light Device

A Destructive Gas Explosion

The Future of South Africa--II

Edgar Mels

Simple Experiments in Physics and Chemistry

The Lecornu Cellular Kite

The New York Botanical Garden

Photographing Living Fishes at Santa Catalina Zoological Station

C. F. Holder

An Improvement in Flue-Cutters

Departments

The Heavens in December

Correspondence - December 2, 1899

Recently Patented Inventions - December 2, 1899

Business and Personal - December 2, 1899

Notes and Queries - December 2, 1899

Index of Inventions - December 2, 1899

Patents - December 2, 1899