MUNN & COMPANY

Publishers of the “Scientific American”

361 Broadway, new York

Scientific American Reference Book

500 Pages six colored plates price $1.50

This book is intended to furnish the reader with information not obtainable in any other work of reference.  It is not an encyclopedia, nor is it an annual, but it contains a mass of information that should be within the reach of every family.  This work has been prepared in response to the many thousands of inquiries received by the Editor of the scientific American on the widest possible range of topics, and it is through these inquiries that the Editors of the reference book have been enabled to determine the scope of this work.  It deals with the “Progress of Discovery,” “Shipping and Yachts,” “The Navies of the World,” “The Armies of the World,” “Railroads of the World,” “Population,” “Education,” “Telegraphs,” “Submarine Telegraphs,” “Wireless Telegraphy,” “Patents,” “Trade-marks,” “Copyrights,” “Manufactures,” “Iron and Steel,” “Departments of the Federal Government,” “The Post-office,” “International Institutions and Bureaus,” “Mines and Mining,” “Farms and Food,” “Mechanical Movements,” “Chemistry,” “Astronomy,” “Weights and Measures,” and a host of other subjects, such as “Aerial Navigation,” “Radium,” etc.  This valuable compendium has been put at a very low price, so that it may be within the reach of everyone.  It is fully illustrated, and has colored plates showing the flags of all nations, the funnels and house flags of lines in American trade, and the International Signal Code.

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