Identifier: scientific-american-1898-01-15 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 78 Number 03 (January 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: scientific steam apparatus tion bicycle munn feet wire scientific american machine wax cloth triple expansion horse power columbia river fluid pressure years ago hot water direct current low pressure
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The article is ac-companied by ta-bles giving valua-ble data based onexperiments withmodern testingapparatus, touch-ing especially thecomparison of thechain less and or-dinary wheel.Acetylene asa n llluininant shows some of thelatest forms of ap-paratus for thesafe and economi-cal generation ofacetylene gas.Lieut. B. W.Dunn, U. S. A.,has a valuablecontinued paperdescribing APhotographic Im-pact Testing Ma-chine for Measur-ing the VaryingIntensity of anImpulsive Force. ■wr»Trmn It shows an ln- M AK.1AI u. genious appar-atus for whichthe Franklin Institute recommends the award of theJohn Scott Legacy Medal and Premium. The secondinstallment of Prof. Octave Chanutes Gliding Experi-ments is of rare interest to all who care for modernaviation. It is splendidly illustrated by 14 engravingsmade from instantaneous photographs. The MineralStatistics for 1897 gives important statistics ot min-ing industry. A Unique Case of Complete Removalof the Stomach describes a brilliant surgical opera-
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tained. The description of this simple but effective millby Castaneda in 1540 shows that it was the same thenas it is now and that it is of distinctly aboriginal origin.The peculiar style of hair dressing is shown by thetwo figures at the left of the picture. The hair is so worn ON THE TERRACES AT ZUNI. weeks issue. This vessel can be connected telephouically by calling up 3041 Baltimore. The tests havebeen very successful and there was no difficulty in com-municating with Washington. The wire is stored ona reel and is inclosed in a watertight tube. tion and is referred to elsewhere. Many of our newsubscribers are possibly not familiar with the featuresof our Supplement. All our readers who can affordto do so would find it to their advantage to becomesubscribers to both our papers. © 1898 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. 44 SftitutiiU %mmtm. (January 15, 1898. RECENTLY PATENTED INVENTIONS.Engineer ing. Compound Gas Engine.—Edward R. Bales, Centralia. 111. Thi* engine is designed to reduce

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