Scientific American Magazine Vol 104 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 104, Issue 9

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Features

The Panama Canal Must be Fortified, Oil Fuel on Ocean Liners, and more

The Southernmost Meteorological Station of the World, The Physiology of Marching, and more

Silvanus Philipps Thompson, F.R.S.

The Noted Electrical Engineer and Physicist

P. F. Mottelay

An Automobile Water Tower

New York's Novel Fire Apparatus

Herbert T. Wade

The Bleriot "Bus"

A Record Passenger-carrying Trip of a New Monoplane

The Largest Electric Valve in the World

Frank C. Perkin

Observations Among the Workshops of Europe--II

Practical Hints for the Extension of Our Machinery Trade

G. L. Carden

Wanted: A Trimming Machine for Paper Hangers, The Current Supplement, and more

The New Star in Lacerta

Its Brightness Suddenly Increased Four Thousand Times

S. A. Mitchell

Science in the Current Periodicals - March 4, 1911

In this Department the Reader will find Briet Abstracts….

Miter Box for Odd Angles

W. D. Graves

The Handy Man's Furnace Ashpan

C. F. A. Siedhof

Case for Phonograph Records

Ralph C. Davison

A Referendum

Non-Freezing Connections for the Water-Jacket

Jacob F. Kropp

Repairing the Bottom Wall of a Lead Pipe

Albert F. Bishop

An Automatic Cut-off for Electric Gas-lighting Circuit

E. W. Williamsom

Rawhide Hammer, Cone Center Dividers, and more

H. M. Nichols

Ruhmer's Recent Work in Wireless Telegraphy

Some New Methods of Transmitting Speech Without Wires

Alfred Gradenwitz

A Novel Compass for Aeroplanes

The Needle Points Out the Direction of Travel

The Inventor's Department- March 4, 1911

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

William Day

The New Rigid Dirigible of the English Navy. "N I.", Glycerine, and more

Carl Dienstbach

Departments

Correspondence- March 4, 1911

Recently Patented Inventions- March 4, 1911

Notes and Queries- March 4, 1911