SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - August 5, 1905 - Original complete issue
Cover Artwork: The new Japanese sister battleships "Kashima" and "Katori". Articles Include:Protection against Fire Damp Mechanical Stokers on Locomotives; Seawanhaka Cup Returns to America; Wear of Car Wheels on Curves; The Lesson of the "Bennington" Disaster; Yellow Fever Prevented by Mosquito Extermination; How the Ancient Babylonians Drained Their City By Edgar James Banks; Ice-Making by Electricity By Orrin E. Dunlap; The Improvement of the Ohio Canals By W. Frank Mc Clure; Hollow Concrete Building Blocks: Their Manufacture and Use By L. B. Powell; Electric Tempering of Tools; The Life History of a Coral; The New Japanese Battleships; The Future University of California By Enos Brown; Canals of Mars Photographed; The Pygmies of the Congo; America's First Long-Distance Motor-Boat Race
Page size: Approx 16 x 11 inches.
Features
Seawanhaka Cup Returns to America
Wear of Car Wheels on Curves
The Lesson of the "Bennington" Disaster
Mechanical Stokers on Locomotives
Protection against Fire Damp
How the Ancient Babylonians Drained Their City
Edgar James Banks
Yellow Fever Prevented by Mosquito Extermination
Ice-Making by Electricity
Orrin E. Dunlap
The Improvement of the Ohio Canals
W. Frank Mc Clure
Hollow Concrete Building Blocks: Their Manufacture and Use
