Scientific American Magazine Vol 105 Issue 13

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 105, Issue 13

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Features

Newspaper Heroism, A Safety Throttle for Locomotives, and more

Henry Walter Nernst

A Great Physical Chemist

William J. Humphreys

Artificial Life

II. Making the Non-Living Do the Work of the Living

Benjamin C. Gruenberg

Central Station Current for Farms

Advantages of Introducing Electricity into Rural Districts

T. Commerford Martin, Putnam A Bates

A New System of Bunkering Steamships

The “Herald” and Her Performances

F. C. Coleman

The Brooks Comet

W. R. Brooks

Enlarging a Reamed Hole

R. P. Albert

How to Make an Engine Crank

Albert F. Bishop

Suggestions for the Workshop- September 23, 1911

Ingenious Expedients of Resourceful Mechanics

A Leather Cup Die, Combination Pipe and Monkey Wrench, and more

J. E. Noble

Progress of New York's State Barge Canal

Nobel E. Whitford

Abstracts from Current Periodicals- September 23, 1911

Phases of Science as Other Editors See Them

The Inventor's Department- September 23, 1911

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

Two Latin-American Aviators, The Current Supplement

Departments

Correspondence- September 23, 1911

Recently Patented Inventions- September 23, 1911

New Books, Etc.- September 23, 1911

Notes and Queries- September 23, 1911