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Scientific American Magazine Vol 90 Issue 19

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 90, Issue 19

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Features

Battleship or Torpedo Boat

Some Interesting Facts about the Development of the Edison Storage Battery

Commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase

The Current Supplement

Action of Radium on Metals

The Russian Ice-Breaker "Ermack"

Experiments with Three-Phase Electric Arcs

High-Velocity 6-Inch Wire-Wound Gun for the United States Army

Growth of Our Navy

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition--Its Scope and its Purpose

Samuel Williams

The Largest Clock in the World

Claude H. Wetmore

A New Electric Clock

The Hydraulic Letter Press

Patent Department

Strainer for Locomotives

A Novel Mail-Bag Catcher

A New Wrench

A Combined Third-Rail Contact Shoe and Sleet Remover

Business and Personal Wants

Departments

The Heavens in May - May 7, 1904

Recently Patented Inventions - May 7, 1904

Notes and Queries - May 7, 1904

New Books, Etc. - May 7, 1904

Index of Inventions - May 7, 1904