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The Transsi-Berian Rail-Road

By Horace C. Hovey

Obstacles to South American Trade

Forethought in the Navy Department

Our New Possessions as a Field for Engineers

Dangers Attending So-Called Food Preservatives

Mount Yillimani Ascended

Soap as a Disinfectant

Dr. John Hopkinson

The Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal

By William Gilbert Irwin

A New Tide Motor

Draught Attachment for Locomotives

The Largest Floating Dock in the World

Collapse of the Wilson Line Pier Shed at New York

A New Testing Valve

A New Light upon the Egyptians

By Walter L. Beasley

Rapid-Fire Guns and Ammunition Supply in the United States Navy

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  • Letters

    Correspondence - September 24, 1898

  • Recommended

    New Books, Etc. - September 24, 1898

  • Departments

    Recently Patented Inventions - September 24, 1898

  • Business and Personal - September 24, 1898

  • Index of Inventions - September 24, 1898

  • To Inventors - September 24, 1898

  • Notes and Queries - September 24, 1898

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