Scientific American Magazine Vol 101 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 101, Issue 13

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Features

The “Wash” of an Aeroplane

The Return of Halley's Comet

The Selden Patent Case

Electricity

Engineering

Science

Hudson and His Exploration of the Hudson River

The Four Periods of Hudson River History

Fulton and His Life Work

Electrical Fireballs: What Are They?

How Finger and Thumb Marks Were Discovered Through a Photographic Proof

Does Municipal Ownership Pay

What is Heat Lightning?

Supersensitiveness of the Blind

Development of the Hudson River Steamboat

American Steamboats Prior to the Clermont

John Fitch

European Steamboats "Prior" to the "Clermont"

John Stevens

William Symington

The American Walking-Beam Engine

Three Hundred Years of New York

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions

Patents

Index of Inventions