Scientific American Magazine Vol 99 Issue 11

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 99, Issue 11

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Features

Is the Aeroplane Practicable for Scouting?

Improvement of New Jersey-New York Suburban Service.--III

Pennsylvania Railroad

Proposals for Cooling the Subway

Manufacturing Under the Requirements of the British Patent Act

Acetylene Gas for Isolated Street Lamps

Alton D. Adams

Excavations at Abydos

Official Meteorological Summary, New York, N. Y., August, 1908

The Current Supplement

Sugar Testing in the United States Customs Service

Herbert T. Wade

The First Flight of the Wright Aeroplane at Fort Myer

By Our Washington Correspondent

The Recurrence of Eclipses

Frederic R. Honey

A Huge Bucket Dredger

By the English Correspondent of the Scientific American

A Police Academy at Rome

Alfred Gradenwitz

The New German Racing Schooner "Germania."

The Faculties of Plants

D. T. Macdougal

Modern Improvements in Drydock Construction

H. A. Crafts

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions

Notes and Queries

New Books, Etc.

Index of Inventions

Patents