Scientific American Magazine Vol 96 Issue 24

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 96, Issue 24

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Features

Gatun Lake is Double the Estimated Size

San Francisco Earthquake and Engineering Construction

Fluid Compression for Steel Rails

Sir Benjamin Baker

The Transit of Mercury in 1907

Frederic R. Honey

The Two-Hundred-Mile Automobile Endurance Test of the New York Motor Club

The Protective Works of the Assouan Dam

By Our London Correspondent

Ball Lightning

John Trowbridge

A New Signaling Machine System for the Automatic Control of Railroad Trains

By the English Correspondent of the Scientific American

Diplodocus: The Greatest of All Earthly Creatures

Walter Beasley

The Ocean Race of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers

Practical Tests of the Schlick Gyrostat for Ships

A Pair of Limbless, Snake-Like Lambs

C. R. Stockard

A Successful Hydroplane Gliding Boat

A Mechanical Toy which Draws Geometrical Designs

Departments

Correspondence

Recently Patented Inventions

Notes and Queries

New Books, Etc.

Index of Inventions

Patents