Scientific American Magazine Vol 93 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 93, Issue 13

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Features

The Bicycle and the Automobile

An Important Innovation in Telegraphy

Loss of the Flagship "Mikasa"

Risk of Derailment on Elevated Railroad Curves

The Current Supplement

Producing High Vacua

The Effect of Hydrogen on Gas Engine Compression

George M. S. Tait

The Phonocard

The Elevated Railroad Wreck in New York

Electrical Control of Bulkhead Doors on Warships

Our Naval Guns in the Civil War and To-Day

The First Producer-Gas Boat

A Government-Built Battleship

The New Solar Observatory at Mount Wilson

M. Benedict Maye

Hydraulic Suction Dredge on the Mississippi

Day Allen Willey

Ancient Reservoirs at Carthage

An Interesting Shark

Charles Frederick Holder

Patent Department

A Novel Carriage-Washing Apparatus

New Warp-Beam Tension Devices for Looms

New Rotary Valve for Steam Engines

A New Wind Instrument

A Striking Illusion Apparatus

Sand Wheel Toy

Business and Personal Wants

Departments

Correspondence - September 23, 1905

Notes and Queries - September 23, 1905

Recently Patented Inventions - September 23, 1905

New Books, Etc. - September 23, 1905

Index of Inventions - September 23, 1905

Patents - September 23, 1905