Scientific American Magazine Vol 98 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 98, Issue 5

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Features

Pennsylvania Railroad Delays Improvements

The Lessons of the Parker Building Fire

The Fastest Warship Afloat

The Enlargement of the Assouan Dam

A Year's Progress on the Panama Canal

A Strip of Territory Added to Alaska

A $25,000 Prize for a Mathematical Solution

A Universal Bench Vise

A Motor Chair Invented by a Woman

Chess in Three Dimensions

By Our Berlin Correspondent

Erection of the Manhattan Bridge Across the East River

An Open-Air Veneer Machine

How Our Measures of Length are Tested

Herbert T. Wade

How We Know That the Earth Rotates

A Famous Taxidermist and His Methods

Harold J. Shepstone

Departments

The Heavens in February

Correspondence

Index of Inventions

Recently Patented Inventions

Patents