Category: Science - Physics
South Sea Bubbles in Science 401 What Makes the Trolley Car Go 408 Is the Christian Religion Declining? 423 A Century of Geology 431 The Applications of Explosives 444 A Year’s Progress in the Klondike 456 The Decline of Criminal Jurisprudence in America 466 The Blind Fishes o...
In almost every instance railway cars are provided with two motors, as shown at _M M_ in these two figures. This arrangement is adopted not because one motor can not furnish all...
10. Part 10The results of such a training vary, of course, with the individual, and depend upon his personal peculiarities. A broad man is broadened by it; a narrow man shuts himself up wi...
11. Part 11SIR: In your editorial, in the issue of September, you speak of “faith as the organ of religious apprehension.” This suggests some important facts that are not always apprehende...
3. Part 3The switches _a a_ and _b b_, shown in Fig. 22, and the bus bars _A B_, are mounted upon a large panel, made of marble or slate, called a switch board. These switches are suffic...
7. Part 7The shops of Dawson have risen to the dignity of establishments having corrugated-iron covers, plate-glass fronts, and redwood shelves and counters. Following closely upon the p...
8. Part 8The existence of such prejudice against the criminal bar is most deplorable. Men of ability and position will shun criminal practice, leaving the field clear to unscrupulous shy...
6. Part 6The history of the attempts made to use nitroglycerin, dynamite, explosive gelatin, and explosives of this class as bursting charges for shell fired from service guns is even le...
12. Part 12The ordinary school education in language and grammar is doubtless responsible for the impression which we find existing in so many minds that, in all matters of verbal expressi...
1. Part 1South Sea Bubbles in Science 401 What Makes the Trolley Car Go 408 Is the Christian Religion Declining? 423 A Century of Geology 431 The Applications of Explosives 444 A Year’s...
4. Part 43. The pulpit was once the chief means of instruction and of intellectual and moral stimulation for the people. The preacher was the people’s orator. The pulpit has in great mea...
9. Part 9I have not found the slightest difficulty in capturing Amblyopsis with a small dip net, either from a boat or while wading through the subterranean stream, and I have caught one...
5. Part 5_The Permanency of Ocean Basins._--Closely associated with the Lyellian uniformitarianism was the doctrine of extreme instability of earth features, especially the forms and pla...
13. Part 13=The War against Monopolies.=--Mr. Robert Ewen writes, in the Westminster Review, demanding free bank circulation as likely to be a very effective weapon to be used in “the comi...