class="tdleft">"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 |
| Manœuvring 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 |
Showing the complicated character of the motion (common to
most earthquakes), and also the course of a point at the
centre of disturbance. |
| Table of Temperatures |
115 |
Mr. E. G. Acheson, One of the Pioneers in the
Investigation of High Temperatures |
125 |
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