Scientific American Magazine Vol 101 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 101, Issue 17

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Features

The New British “Dreadnoughts” and “Inflexibles.”

Some Photochemical Reactions

The Spectrum of Mars

A Talk with Wilbur Wright

Science

Aeronautics

Electricity

The Aviation Meet at Berlin and Latham's Flight Across the City

The First German Monoplane to Make Successful Flights

A Simplified Method of Teaching Experimental Physics

Jacques Boyer

Saturn and His Rings

Frederio R. Honey

Result of a Lightning Stroke

The Highest Human Ascent

Why Not a Monument to Fitch?

The Height of Mount Rainier

“Inflexible” and “Connecticut” Compared

Aerial Warfare in 1798

The Number of Our Ancestors

The Scientific American at Jericho

The Latest Submarines of the United Sates Navy

An All Seeing Eye for the Submarine

Col. John Jacob Astor's Novel Steamship Chair

Alternating Current Experiments

Frederick E. Ward

Handy Man's Workshop

An Easily Constructed Equatorial Mount for Small Telescopes

R. W. Wood

Device for Removing Wood Screws

James Paterson

How to Make a Paper Telescope Barrel

C. R. M'gahey

A Device for Emptying a Tub

C. W. Fairbank

The Handy Man's Sub-Caliber Gun

August Mencken

Restoring a Dry Cell

Edward M. Hanson

A Simple Fruit Cellar

F. A. Kaiser

Mending a Broken Metallic Filament

Howard W. Nichols

Departments

Correspondence

Recently Patented Inventions

Notes and Queries

New Books, Etc.

Index of Inventions

Patents