The United States battleship Maine. Strong Defensive armor and heavy guns; did not keep it afloat in Cuba. Also: a new alloy metal, and the antiquity of the human knee as seen in archaeological researches near Babylon.



Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past

Restoration by: magscanner

Created on

Monday 30 November 2009

Posted on

Monday 30 November 2009

Keywords

explosion, marine, seafaring, sinking, Spanish-American war, U. S. Navy, war fever

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• General Magazines / Science and Technology Magazines / Scientific American

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