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Rear-Admiral Hichborn on the Needs of the Navy

An Engineering Triumph

Another Successful Defense of the "America" Cup

Death of Admiral Colomb

A New Zealand Vesuvius

A Four-Spindle Horizontal Car-Boring Machine

A Mechanical Butter Moulder and Cutter

A New Gang or Cultivator Plow

A Portable Acetylene Gas Lamp

A Racing Automobile

Control of the San Juan River at Greytown

Wireless Telegraphy at the Yacht Races

The November Meteors of 1899

By E. C. Pickering

Some Harbors and Piers of Southern California

By Charles F. Holder

Destruction of the City Acetylene Gas Plant at Wabash, Ind

A Giant Cactus

To Inventors - October 28, 1899

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  • Letters

    Correspondence - October 28, 1889

  • Recommended

    New Books, Etc. - October 28, 1899

  • Departments

    The Heavens in November

  • Recently Patented Inventions - October 28, 1899

  • Index of Inventions - October 28, 1899

  • Business and Personal - October 28, 1899

  • Notes and Queries - October 28, 1899

  • Patents - October 28, 1899

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October 28, 1899

Beyond XX and XY

Biology. Identity. Equality.

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