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Scientific American Magazine Vol 91 Issue 23

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 91, Issue 23

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Features

Power of Ocean Waves

Electric Traction for Trunk Roads

Production and Population

Gas Turbines

A United States Warship on Trial

Subway Results

A Tilting Lock-Chamber

A Locomotive in Service Sixty Years

Herbert T. Walker

New form of Liquid Rheostat for Starting Electric Motors

By Our Belgian Correspondent

The Registration of Meteorological Phenomena in Lapland

Emile Guarini

An Interesting Relic

Henri Becquerel

Daniel Bellet

The California Redwood in Modern Engineering

H. A. Crafts

Comet 1904 A

The Ancient Races of Yucatan and Mexico.--II

Randolph I. Geare

Wax Farming in China--A Strange Industry

Walter L. Beasley

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

The Heavens in December - December 3, 1904

Correspondence - December 3, 1904

Notes and Queries - December 3, 1904

Recently Patented Inventions - December 3, 1904

Index of Inventions - December 3, 1904

Patents - December 3, 1904