Scientific American Magazine Vol 105 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 105, Issue 17

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Features

Popular Science, Aircraft in the Recent German Maneuvers, and more

Frank Julian Sprague

Inventor and Engineer

Thomas Commerford Martin

New York's Fire College

Fire-fighting and Rescue Work Reduced to a Science

Herbert T. Wade

Wireless Detectors

Adelbert J. Gogel

Vaniman-Seiberling Transatlantic Expedition

Preparing for the Second Attempt to Cross the Ocean by Airship

Three Comets Now Visible

Directions How to Find Them

S. A. Mitchell

Abstracts from Current Periodicals- October 21, 1911

Phases of Science as Other Editors See Them

Relative Strength of the Italian and Turkish Navies

A Comparison of Fleels Ancient and Modern

Small Isolated Electric Power Plants

Some Practical Suggestions on Building Them

Frederick E. Ward

The Inventor's Department- October 21, 1911

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

The Electrical Show in the New Grand Central Palace, The Glidden Tour and the Fair-mount Park Automobile Race, and more

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions- October 21, 1911

New Books, Etc.- October 21, 1911

Notes and Queries- October 21, 1911

Correspondence- October 21, 1911