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To Cover the World

HE field of "The Technical World Magazine" is the wide world-wherever

men or women are

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doing good work in new and interesting ways. The wellknown and interesting writer, Mr. Robert Shackleton, will spend the next few months in Europe in the interest of "The Technical World Magazine", collecting material for articles on the latest developments in engineering and science. Able correspondents are also being appointed. in all the various European capitals to supplement and enlarge upon the work now done for us by Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz, of Berlin, and other regular contributors. Readers may rest assured that they will have early and authoritative information of everything new and important in all parts of the world.

ROBERT SHACKLETON

Simple and Concise, but Authoritative

Technical does not mean dry or stupid or uninteresting. You will not have to study or work your way through the pages of "The Technical World Magazine." Next year the greatest attention will be paid to making everything which appears in the magazine, clear and

simple and easily understood. Nothing could be more interesting to everybody than the way in which the great work of the world is being done. Nothing could be more truly romantic, more genuinely sensational, than the actual accomplishments of engineers and scientists. It is the business of this magazine to tell the stories of these men in such a way that the reader will be thrilled.

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Monthly Record of
Progress

During the coming year the magazine will print each month a number of pages devoted to short

GEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH

descriptions of new and interesting and unique inventions, new engineering feats, and new methods of accomplishing old results. This department will serve the purpose of a digest of the engineering press of the world. A reading of these

Mention Technical World Magazine

A New Year's Toast

To the True Pioneers of Progress-to the men with chain and sextant, drill and shield, hoist and riveter_burrowing through mountains, spinning, spider-like, across dizzy chasmsmaking the world smaller and Man larger

A Happy New Year and Many of 'Em!

To the Gentlemen Adventurers of Democracy-to the men who tempt the vengeance of the upper air, dare the sunless dangers of deep seas, track to their secret lairs the wild beasts of disease and pestilence-risking their own lives that the life of Man may be made safe

A Happy New Year and Many of 'Em!

To the Poets and Dreamers of the Present-to the men who harness the tides, bridle the west wind, put a yoke about the neck of the glaciers, drive the sun and moon tandem— making the forces of nature toil that Man may enjoy— A Happy New Year and Many of 'Em!

To the Masters of the Future-to the men who know, to the men in earnest. -rejoicing in their knowledge and their strength, looking with clear eyes, unafraid, into the face of fate-crowned with the high happiness of work well doneA Happy New Year and Many of 'Em!

HENRY M. Hyde.

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World Magazine

Volume IV

JANUARY, 1906

From Alaska to Cape Horn

No. 5

Pan-American Railroad System Already Largely Completed-Will Link Together Extremities of Two Continents

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By EDWARD B. CLARK

Washington Correspondent, THE TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE

HE gray plover nests in the sedges of Alaska; and when the short summer wanes, it leads its young in perilous flight southward across plains and mountain ranges, and then, guided by the coast-line, wings its way steadily onward until it reaches its winter home in Patagonia.

For more than one-half of the immense distance of its migration, the flight course of the gray plover is almost coincident with the surveyed line for the projected Pan-American Railway, a commercial connection between the northern and southern continents that a few years ago was regarded as the dream of enthusiasts, but which to-day has passed far beyond the realm of visions. Men whose lives are well behind them will probably live to see the day when they can make an unbroken railway journey from the River Yukon in Alaska to the River Limay in Patagonia.

Wedding of Ends of Earth This journey from the north to the south means more than the traveling of an immense distance within a short space

of time, though this thought alone is impressive. It means the passing through alternate cold and heat, moisture and dryness, bare fields and green fields, treeless plains and tropical forests, fertile valleys and sterile mountains; it means acquaintance with men of every hue of skin and of every habit of life. It means the wedding of the ends of earth.

The steel road which will lead through the countries of Greater America, the engineers state, will be one of the longest continuous railway lines of which the geography of the world admits, for the distance from Alaska to Patagonia always should be considered.

Already Largely Built

The great cities of New York and Buenos Ayres to-day are spoken of as the terminal points; but, as Mr. Charles M. Pepper, the Pan-American Railway Commissioner, says, the northern and southern habitable limits of the continents in reality are kept in mind.

The railroad known as the Grand Trunk Pacific is expected in a short time to extend its lines to the Yukon. When this is done, the traveler may take train

Copyright, 1905, by The Technical World Company

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On projected route of Pan-American Railway. The immense tree-trunk here shown indicates a forest growth almost equaling that of the far-famed Sequoia characteristic of the Pacific Slope of North America.

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