Scientific American Magazine

August 1909

Volume 101, Issue 6

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Features

Bleriot's Channel Flight

Grandeur of the Hudson-Fulton Naval Parade

Leffert Lefferts Buck

An Antique Encyclopedia

Electricity

Engineering

Science

The First Successful Cross-Channel Flight

Orville Wright's Record Flights at Fort Myer

Electric Lamps in the Making

Frederic Blount Warren

A Novel Type of Rotary Conveyer

By the English Correspondent of the Scientific American

How Does a Bird Soar?

Electrochemical Amalgamation

The Terrestrial Origin of the Moon--A Protest

The Chronosphere—An Empire Clock

By the English Correspondent of the Scientific American

The Figurehead and Its Story

The Cement Work of the Mud Wasps

S. F. Aaron

Electric Coffee Pot

Howard M. Nichols

Folding Bracket for the Hand Glass

A. R. Van Der Veer

Tabouret Made From an Onion Crate

William P. Goebel

Handy Man's Workshop

An Improvised Shoe Stretcher

John K. Brachvogel

Drop Light Made From an Oil Lamp

B. A. Johns

Convenient Hanger for the Clothes Closet

T. G. Hoster

Alarm for Batteries of Electric Gas Lighters

L. G. Handy

A Tin Can Leader

William C. M'kenzie