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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 

 REFERENCE BOOK 



EDITION OF 1914 



It contains 608 pages and 1000 illustrations, is substan- 

 tially bound in cloth and the cover carries a special 

 design printed in three colors. 



A. Russell Bond 



Compiler and Editor for Tart II. SCIENTIFIC 



Information. Editor of Handyman's 

 Workshop and Laboratory. 



Albert A. Hopkins 



Compiler and Editor for Part I. STATISTICAL IN- 

 FORMATION. Editor of Cyclopedia of Formulas. 

 Handbook of Travel. Etc. Member of the 

 American Statistical Association. 



THE Scientific Ameiican Reference Book for 1914 has been completely revised 

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Chapter J 'HI. 



THE PANAMA CANAL. 



Chatter IX. 



TELEGRAPHS AND CABLES. 



Chapter X. 



WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. 



Chapter XI. 



TELEPHONE STATISTICS 01 

 THE WORLD. 



Chapter XII. 



POST OFFICE AFFAIRS. 



Chapter XIII. 



PATENTS, TRADEMARKS AND 

 COPYRIGHTS. 



Chapter XIV. 



ARMIES OF THE WORLD. 



Chapter XV. 



NAVIES OF THE WORLD. 



Chapter XVI. 



AVIATION. 



Part I. 



STATISTICAL IXFOR 



MATION. 



Chapter I. 



POPULATION AND SOCIAL 

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Chapter II. 



FABMS, FOODS AND FORESTS. 



Chapter III. 



MINES AND QUARRIES. 



Chapter IV. 



MANUFACTURES. 



Chapter V. 



COMMERCE. 



Chapter VI. 



MERCHANT MARINE 



Chapter VII. 



RAILROADS. 



Part II. 

 SCIENTIFIC INFOR- 

 MATION. 

 Chapter I. 



CHEMISTRY. 

 ASTRONOMY AND TIME. 



Chapter II. 

 Chapter III. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Chapter IV. 



MACHINE ELEMENT 



MECHANICAL MOVE- 

 MENTS. 



Chapter V. 



GEOMETRICAL CONSTRUC- 

 TIONS. 



Chapter VI. 



WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, 



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Uncle Ed's Wager 



Chapter II 



First Evening in the 



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Chapter III 



The "Rubber Neck" 



Auto 



Chapter IV 



Five Hundred Feet 



Above Broadway 



Chapter V 



All About Skyscrapers 



Chapter VI 



A Hundred Feet Below 



Broadway 



Chapter VII 



The "Bends" 



Chapter VIII 



Reporters for the Sphere 



Chapter IX 



Sand Hogs 



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 A Man Goes Skyrocket- 

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 Chapter XI 

 Stopping a Leak With 

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 Chapter XII 

 Spinning a Web Across 

 the River 

 Chapter XIII 

 Cars that Travel 

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 Chapter XIV 

 Quenching a City's 

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 Chapter XV 

 Caging Dynamite 

 Chapter XVI 

 A Life Saving Fall 

 Chapter XVII 

 Boats That Devour Mud 



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 The Launch of a 

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 Chapter XIX 

 The "Hoodoo Drydock" 

 Chapter XX 

 Twenty Miles Under 

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 Chapter XXI 

 Making Soap from 

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 Chapter XXII 

 Caught in the Taws of 

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 Chapter XXIII 

 Thousands Talking at 

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 Chapter XXIV 

 An Underground Swim 

 Chapter XXV 

 Igniting Oil by Com- 

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