SA Supplements Vol 79 Issue 2057supp

SA Supplements

Volume 79, Issue 2057supp

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Features

Patents and their Purpose

Notes of Historic Interest

Jeremiah Lee MacAuliffe

Engineers' Difficulties with Tropical Telephones

The Value of Birds to Man

The Prismatic Compass

How it Works and Some of its Advantages

Nepal

Notes on a Visit to a Country Inaccessible to Europeans

Henry John Elwes

The Combustion of Coal in Boiler Furnaces

Freight Carrying on the Great Lakes

Where Immense Quantities of Grain, Ore and Coal Are Moved in Bulk

Day Allan Willey

British Shipping Tonnage

Utilizing Wastes in Canning Pineapples

Atoms and Ions—VI

A Comprehensive Discussion Especially as Related to Gases

J. J. Thomson

Safety in Good Lighting

Scientific Aeronautic Research

The New Aerodynamic Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J. C. Hunsaker

Development in Electromagnetism—II

A Review of Some Important Problems, and Laboratory Results

Eugene Bloch

The Problem of the High Building

Charles Peck Warren

New Instruments of Precision