Important Development in Electric Traction

A Monumental Structure

The Next Congress of Americanists

A New Steam Motor Car for Railroads

The Cunard Commission Turbine Test

The Current Supplement

The Death of Herbert Spencer

Death of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi

The Launch of the New Transatlantic Liner "Baltic."

A Sectional Steamer for our Colonial Possessions

An Optical Pyrometer

The Noise of Lightning

An Odd Casting

The Opening of the New East River Bridge

Ornithological Discoveries on Laysan

California String Beans

Improved Feed-Water Filter

Patent Department

Trolley Finder

Safety Alarm Device for Marine Vessels

Oddities in Inventions

Business and Personal Wants

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