Identifier: scientific-american-1905-03-18 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 92 Number 11 (March 1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: scientific tunnel feet patent electric method american tion hot water scientific american pratt food para rubber type writing third floor port arthur steel bridge whispering gallery sun hand
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Photos, by Seacoast Mortar, Protected by Sandbag Emplacement. Edwin Emerson, Jr. PORT ARTHUR AFTER THE CAPITULATION. Three-Inch Field Gnn Wrecked by Shell Fire. teries, and a description of the mounting and work-ing of the mortars, and the method by which, as theresult of the capture of 203-Meter Hill, the Japanesewere able, by observing the fall of the shells, to directthe high-angle fire. In the present issue we presenta series of most interesting views, showing the workof this bombardment as viewed from within the great She was launched in 1898, and carried four 10-inch andeleven 6-inch guns, besides a score of 3-inch rapidfirers. She had two submerged and four above-watertorpedo tubes, and is credited as having made on triala speed of over 19 knots. A sister ship, the Pobieda,also lies sunken within Port Arthur harbor. Anotherof our photographs shows the torpedo transport Amur, ports. As soon as the mines were clear of the ship,they were dropped, one after the other, until a longl

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