Scientific American Magazine Vol 104 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 104, Issue 8

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Features

Our Decadent Merchant Marine, The Importance of a Wood Collection in the National Museum, and more

Professor Gisbert Kapp

A Distinguished Electrical Engineer

P. F. Mottelay

Curtiss's Single Hydroplane Float for Aeroplanes

John Fulton Greer

New Things in Aeronautics

Height Recorder for Balloonists: Curtiss's New Flying Boat

Labor Saving by Automobile Power

Gasoline vs. Perspiration

Walter Langford

The Pan-American Commercial Congress, A Menace to the Alfalfa Crop, and more

Observations Among the Workshops of Europe--I

Practical Hints for the Extension of Our Machinery Trade

G. L. Carden

Uncovering the "Maine"

Fighting Death in Mines

How Science is Educating the Miner

M. Hamilton Talbot

Science in the Current Periodicals - February 25, 1911

In this Department the Reader will find Brief Abstracts of Interesting Articles Appearing In Contemporary Periodicals at Home and Abroad

Construction of a Four-and-a-Half-Inch Reflector

Albert R. J. F. Hassard

A Home-made Portrait Attachment for a Camera of Fixed Focus

Albert S. Getten

Liquefaction of Nitric Oxide

A Modified Form of the Opeidoscope

C. S. Bourne

An Easily Made Leyden Jar Charger, How Clouds Get Their Fringes, and more

H. B. Dailey

Graphic Demonstration of Cometary Orbits

B. C. Batcheller

Curiosities of Science and Invention- February 25, 1911

The Inventor's Department- February 25, 1911

Simple Patent Law; Patent Office News; Inventions New and Interesting

Fuel from Nile Sudd

By Our London Correspondent

Departments

Correspondence- February 25, 1911

Recently Patented Inventions- February 25, 1911

New Books, Etc.- February 25, 1911

Notes and Queries- February 25, 1911