Volume 106, Issue 8
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Features
Pittsburgh Trailers and Their Lessons
Doubling the Seating Capacity for the Same Motive Power
The Late Joseph Lister
The Father of Antiseptic Surgery
An Arithmetical "Nut"
A New Apparatus for Marine Exploration
Recently Invented Deep-sea Nets
The Berlin Museum of German Industry, Uses of the Castor Bean and more
By the Berlin Correspondent of the Scientific American
Trees That Yield Butter
How Nature Competes With the Dairy
New York's First Subway
How Alfred E. Beach, Editor of the Scientific American, Secretly Built a Pneumatic Railway Beneath Broadway in 1869
Recent Happenings in Aviation: The Boland Biplane and more
A New Control for Aeroplanes—A Fatal Accident With a Parachute
The Laboratory, Some Simple-Catalytic Experiments
Some Suggestions for Home Experiment
Home-made Chemical Fire Extinguisher
By W. J. C.
Simple Lifter for the Laboratory
Maintaining a Constant Level in Batteries
A New Method for the Determination of Sulphur in Pyrites and Pyrrhotite
What Inventors Are Doing: Some Curious European Motor Sleighs and more
Simple Patent Law; Patent Office News; Inventions New and Interesting