Scientific American Magazine
Volume 82, Issue 17You are currently logged out. Please sign in to download the issue PDF.
Features
National Academy of Sciences
The New Japan Battleship Shikishima
Value of Sea Birds
Departments
Finality in Invention
Opening of the Paris Exposition
Progress and Prospects of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Cellulith
Paris Exposition Notes
An American Automobile Race
Aerial Sweep for the Pan-American Exposition
The Use of Acetylene in Raising Sunken Vessels
A New Storage Battery
A Window Mirror
The Hydraulic System of Air Compression
The Vagaries of a Railroad Wreck
The Failure of the Masonry Dam at Austin, Texas
Recently Patented Inventions
Correspondence
Index of Inventions
Business and Personal
Notes and Queries
Patents
A Simple Compass with a Caliper-Scale