Scientific American Magazine Vol 83 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 83, Issue 8

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Features

Departments

High-Lift Locks for the Erie Canal

Recent Armor Plate Bids

Progress of the New York Rapid Transit Tunnel

Lowering of the Atlantic Record

Compressed Air Traction in New York City

Limits of Electric Transmission

Experiments with X-Rays in Electrostatic Field

The Chemistry of Soot

Paris Exposition Notes

Super-Heated Water Motor for Railroad Traction

Problems of the Chinese Campaign

Some Stage Effects in "Ben Hur."

The Paris Metropolitan Underground Railroad

The Howell Disappearing Carriage

A Simple Rotary Pump for Light Service

Gathering and Curing Crude Rubber

Recently Patented Inventions

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

Business and Personal

New Books, Etc.

To Inventors

Patents