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Excerpt from The Locomotive, Vol. 21: January, 1900 Accident from a whizzer, 9-1. To a man in a boiler, 1 55. Advertisement for an engineer, 71, 102. Air, the weight of, *1. Albatross, recent cruise of, 189. America. See United States. Ampere, meaning of, '16 l. Atlantic Monthly. See Magazine Science. Austrian torpedo boat, boiler explosion on, *81. Bacteria. See Water. Balls, cast-iron, weight of, 170. Boats, submarine, 9 1. - See Vessels. Boiler, accident to a man in, 155. Explosion in an iron works, '17. From a landslide, *33. In a sash factory, *65. On an Austrian torpedo boat, *81. In an ice factory, *145. On the Infanta Isabel, 170. Explosions, monthly lists of, 10, 21, 36, 51, 67, 83, 99, 132, 131, 147, 149, summary for 1899, 75 since 1879, 109. Cause of (note), 191. Model, explosion of a, 186. Trajectory of an exploded, *17. Boilers, sectional, nipples in, '97. On the tubes of, *17 7. Horizontal vs. Vertical, *129. And feed water, *129. Number f, in the U. S., 72. Boiling, sterilization of water by, 25. Books, Emerson on, 55 Boyle's law, *1. Branched pipes, *113. Building, slow, 185. Buildings, tall, guides in, 78. Burglar and housewife, 175. Canal, the Nicaragua, 76. Cast-iron balls, weight of, 17 0. Castles - See Building, slow. Cathedral, Cologne, 185. Census. See United States. Center of Gravity of a locomotive, 41. Centrifugal drier, accident from, 94. Century Magazine. See Magazine Science. China, the engineer in, 17 2 Circles, concerning, 187. Civilization. See China. Coal, the world's need of; and our supply of, 156. See also Energy. Daguerre's contribution to photography, 89. Decimal 187. Deposit. See Scale. Doctor. See Physicist, and Metric System. Drier, centrifuge. Accident from, 94. Electric furnace, 105. Hlectrical terms in common use, *161. Emerson on the art of reading, 55. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
