Scientific American Magazine Vol 98 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 98, Issue 8

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Features

The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Steel Rail Problem

“The Navy” and Naval Criticism

Where the Reciprocating Engine Drove Out the Turbine

Designers of the Brooklyn Bridge Terminal

Lemoine and His Artificial Diamonds

The Current Supplement

Extermination of Fruit Pests in California

Award of the Army Aeroplane Contracts

Asbestos Slates--A German Invention

When Was the First Pendulum Experiment Performed in this Country?

Opening of the Hudson River Tunnel System

The Testing of a Locomotive

Frederic Blount Warren

Closing a 700-Foot Break in the Mississippi Levees

Paul J. Brand

Sending the Whalebacks Out to Sea

L. E. Moss

The Efficiency of the Human Machine

René Bache

Micrometer Attachment for Calipers and the Like

Safety Connection for Gas Stoves

Shipping Can for Transporting Milk

An Improved Fish-Line Float

Departments

Correspondence

Index of Inventions

Notes and Queries

New Books, Etc.

Recently Patented Inventions

Patents