Boys' second book of inventionsBaker, Ray Stannard
Science
Boys' second book of inventions
Baker, Ray Stannard
Inventions; Technology -- Juvenile literature
M. Santos-Dumont at Nineteen 41
M. Santos-Dumont's First Balloon (Spherical) 43
M. Santos-Dumont's Workshop 45
"Santos-Dumont No. 1" 49
Basket of "Santos-Dumont No. 1" 52
_Showing propeller and motor._
"Santos-Dumont No. 1" 54
_Showing how it began to fold up in the middle._
"Santos-Dumont No. 5" Rounding Eiffel Tower,
July 13, 1901 57
The Interior of the Aërodrome 61
_Showing its construction, the inflated balloon,
and the pennant with its mystic letters._
The Fall into the Courtyard of the Trocadero Hotel 65
"_Santos-Dumont No. 5._"
"Santos-Dumont No. 6"--The Prize Winner 69
Air-Ship Pointing almost Vertically Upward 73
Falling to the Sea 73
Just Before the Air-Ship Lost all its Gas 74
Losing its Gas and Sinking 74
The Balloon Falling to the Waves 75
Boats Around the Ruined Air-Ship 75
Manoeuvring Above the Bay at Monte Carlo 77
Professor John Milne 80
_From a photograph by S. Suzuki, Kudanzaka, Tokio._
Professor Milne's Sensitive Pendulum, or Seismograph,
as it Appears Enclosed in its Protecting Box 81
The Sensitive Pendulum, or Seismograph, as it
Appears with the Protecting Box Removed 81
Gifu, Japan, after the Earthquake of 1891 85
_This and the pictures following on pages 89, 101,
111, are from Japanese photographs reproduced in
"The Great Earthquake in Japan, 1891," by John
Milne and W. K. Burton._
The Work of the Great Earthquake of 1891 in
Neo Valley, Japan 89
Diagram Showing Vertical and Horizontal Sections
of the More Sensitive of Professor
Milne's Two Pendulums, or Seismographs 93
Seismogram of a Borneo Earthquake that Occurred
September 20, 1897 94
Effect of the Great Earthquake of 1891 on the
Nagara Gawa Railway Bridge, Japan 101
Pieces of a Submarine Cable Picked Up in the
Gulf of Mexico in 1888 108
_The kinks are caused by seismic disturbances,
and they show how much distortion a cable can
suffer and still remain in good electrical
condition, as this was found to be._
Record made on a Stationary Surface by the
Vibrations of the Japanese Earthquake of
July 19, 1891 111
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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