Scientific American Magazine Vol 109 Issue 16

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 109, Issue 16

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Features

Cutting Down the Pittsburgh "Hump" District

Harry Chapin Plummer

A Dangerous Bill, Dual Personality in Court, Painting the Town With Phosphorescent Paint and more

Gasoline Slot Machine, Combined Piano Player and Talking Machine

A Pantagraph Which Draws on Steel With a Point of Flame

Henry Harrison Suplee

Pegoud's Remarkable Performances

What Coolness and Nerve Can Accomplish

Earthquakes and the Panama Canal

A Study of the Geological Conditions on the Isthmus and What it Reveals

Donald F. MacDonald

Rudolf Diesel: An Appreciation

The Significance of a Great Inventor's Work

Henry Harrison Suplee

Transporting a 46-Ton Cover Plate

A Railroad Bed Lowered to Accommodate the Castings

How One Express Company Proposes to Compete With the Parcels Post

Important Progress in Airships, The Current Supplement and more

C. Dienstbach

Departments

Correspondence - October 18, 1913

Recently Patented Inventions - October 18, 1913