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Scientific American Magazine Vol 91 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 91, Issue 17

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Features

Automobile Road Racing

Scientific Disposition of Sewage

Charles F. Holder

A Life-Saving Museum

George E. Walsh

The Scientific American Reference Book

Testing Machines at the Boston Institute of Technology

Day Allen Willey

Train Wrecked by Collision with Dynamite

W. L. Radcliffe

The Fery Pyrometric Telescope

A Novel Interrupter for Induction Coils

By our Berlin correspondent

A New English Telephonic Fire Alarm

Frank C. Perkins

First Competition for the Vanderbilt International Automobile Cup

Some Recent Launchings in the United States Navy

A Peculiar Lily

Herbert I. Priestley

An Animal New to Science at the New York Zoological Park

Business and Personal Wants

Read this Column Carefully—You will find inquiries for certain classes of articles numbered in consecutive order. If you manufacture these goods write us at once and we will send you the name and address of the party desiring the information. in every case it is necessary to give the number of the inquiry. Munn & Co

Departments

Correspondence - October 22, 1904

New Books, Etc. - October 22, 1904

Index of Inventions - October 22, 1904

Recently Patented Inventions - October 22, 1904

Notes and Queries - October 22, 1904