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Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 16--16 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 18--18 Anonymous The Growth of the Automobile, Review of the Year, 1919, and more . . . . . . . . 3--5 Victor Pagé The Refinement of Details . . . . . . . 6--7 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- VI . . . . 8--8 Anonymous Making the Automobile Complete . . . . . 9--9 John Q. Stewart The Nature of Things . . . . . . . . . . 10--11 Victor W. Page The All-Year Car . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13 Frank M. Williams The New York State Barge Canal --- I . . 14--15
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March, 1920 . . . . . . . 252--252 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 254--254 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 263--264 Ralph Howard A Year's Supply of Raw Material for the Melting Pot, Wartime Bureaus and the Taxpayer, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241 George W. Rowell, Jr. Wicker-Weaving by Machine . . . . . . . 242--242 William H. Easton Electric Locomotives that are Still Larger and More Powerful, Starting from Cold on Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243 A. H. Beardsley Photo Enlargements by Expansion of Negative Emulsion, The Mathematical Motor Truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- IX . . . . 244--244 John L. Von Blon Commercializing the Coyote . . . . . . . 246--246 James Anderson Wreck-Proof Safe for Ocean-Going Mail 247--247 Sidney J. Hall How the Chinese Make their Beautiful Enamel-Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 George Gaulois Putting Infra-Red Rays to Work . . . . . 248--249 J. Malcolm Bird What About the Old-Fashioned Winter? . . 253--253 Anonymous Vermont Talc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 282--282 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 284--284 C. W. Geiger Lightening the Stevedore's Load, Unscientific Lawmaking, and more . . . . 267--269 Robert G. Skerrett Navigating Ships in Trains . . . . . . . 270--270 George Gaulois The X-Ray in the Shop . . . . . . . . . 271--271 Henry J. Edsall The Cleaning of Railroad Ballast, Street Accidents in Miniature . . . . . . . . . 271--271 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Chemistry . . . . . . . . 272--272 Ralph Howard Seeking the Seven-Mile Ceiling . . . . . 273--273 Harry Chapin Plummer Highways Through the Wilderness . . . . 274--274 S. G. Roberts Cutting Out a Railroad Hazard . . . . . 275--275 Ralph Howard Welding a Lighthouse's Broken Legs . . . 275--275 Howard S. Leach The Photostat as an Aid to Research . . 276--277 Arthur L. Dahl What is a Silo? . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280 James Anderson Ecuador Contributes a Wood that is Lighter than Cork . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281 Anonymous Some Features of the American Motor Boat Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281 Anonymous American Tennis Shoes in Chile . . . . . 286--286 Anonymous Condensation of Fruit Juices . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 306--308 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 310--310 Ralph Howard America's Share in World Production, Paper, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297 H. W. and C. Wells Nieman What Shall we Say to Mars? . . . . . . . 298--298 S. R. Winters Paper from Cottonseed Waste . . . . . . 299--299 A. R. Surface Iron Castings from Steel Scrap, Using Brick and Wood in Reinforced Concrete, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299 H. E. Howe The Future of the Cotton Industry . . . 300--300 L. Lodian Strange Things to Eat . . . . . . . . . 302--303 Thomas Ewing Dabney New Orleans' Industrial Canal . . . . . 304--304 Robert G. Skerrett Finger Signals for the Motorist, Breaking Away from the Conventional in Mail Airplanes, and more . . . . . . . . 305--305 Anonymous Potash from a New Source, Airplane Service Between Denmark and Germany, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320 Henry A. Gardner Quick Dry Lacquer Coating, Protecting the Surface of Aluminum from Corrosion, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--324
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1920 . . . . . . . 338--339 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 340--340 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 342--342 Anonymous Mail Delivery to Ships at Sea, Detecting Men by their Heat Radiation, and more 327--329 J. Bernard Walker The Panama Canal Today . . . . . . . . . 330--330 Leo G. Hall Wrecking Reinforced Concrete Structures --- The Demolishing Art at its Best, Fighting Crickets with Flame Throwers 331--331 George Gaulois A Man-Sized Helicopter that Leaves the Ground with Full Load . . . . . . . . . 331--331 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- X . . . . . 332--332 Anonymous Testing Airplane Propellers . . . . . . 333--333 Howard Greene Why the Trailer has Made Good . . . . . 334--335 W. Norman Bratton The Latest Word in Steel . . . . . . . . 336--336 A. M. Clark Electricity's Latest Contribution to the Modem Art of Heat Treatment . . . . . . 337--337 Daniel T. Pierce How Colloidal Chemistry Aids the Paving Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337 Anonymous A Practical Blue-Print Protector . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 368--368 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 370--370 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 380--380 Anonymous Building Houses Out of the Waste of War, Rust-Proof Steel in Dentistry, and more 355--357 Robert G. Skerrett Making Farms Out of Deserts . . . . . . 358--358 Harry Botsford Gasoline from Natural Gas . . . . . . . 359--359 S. R. Winters Testing Paper by Tearing, The Electrified Blackboard for the Technical Classroom, and more . . . . . . . . . . 359--359 C. H. Claudy Exploiting the Inventor --- I . . . . . 360--360 B. S. Beach The Electric Railroad Over the Rockies 362--362 George F. Paul The Wrecking Derrick and a Concrete Job, Our Instincts have Birthdays, and more 363--363 Oliver Johnson Piercing New Zealand's Mountain Barrier 363--363 LeRoy Jeffers From the Mountains of Montana to the Tetons of Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365 H. A. Crafts From Boneyard to Shipyard . . . . . . . 366--366 Anonymous Making Wax Dummies for Fashion Displays, Some Novel Uses for the Tattooing Needle 367--367 Anonymous A Botanical Romance . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--389 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 400--400 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 402--402 Fred E. Woodward The Books of Forty Years, Making Window Glass, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--385 Robert G. Skerrett Is the Fabricated Ship a Success? . . . 386--386 Richard F. Hammatt Winged Patrols for Our Expansive Forests 387--387 G. Orb Multiple Wheel Truck and the Pneumatic Tire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387 C. H. Claudy Exploiting the Inventor --- II . . . . . 388--388 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Electrical Engineering . . 389--389 David Harold Colcord How Much is a Worker Worth? . . . . . . 390--391 R. P. Crawford and G. H. Dacy Fighting Plant Pests with Fire . . . . . 392--393 Andrew Stewart Creating an Asset . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394 George W. Grupp What Types of Drives are Used in Motor Trucks? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395 A. R. Surface Power from Peat --- An Interesting Irish Experiment in Fuels . . . . . . . . . . 395--395 M. Tevis Something New in Fluorescent Screens for Radioscopic Work, Where there is no Sugar Shortage, and more . . . . . . . . 395--395 Francis Dickie Making Boro-Budur Known . . . . . . . . 398--399 Anonymous Measuring Carbon Content of Steel . . . 412--412
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle: The Motor-Driven Commercial . . . . . . . . 430--430 Anonymous Why is Gasoline High?, Building for the Future, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--417 C. L. Edholm House Surgery in the Building Crisis . . 418--418 S. R. Winters Is the Dam Safe? . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419 Charles W. Geiger California's Power Famine . . . . . . . 419--419 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XI . . . . 420--420 Irving Langmuir At the Rock Bottom of Matter . . . . . . 421--421 George H. Dacy Uncle Sam --- Motion Picture Producer 422--422 A. R. Surface Carbon Electrodes in the Making . . . . 423--423 S. R. Winters High Flying in the Laboratory . . . . . 423--423 G. Orb Where Concrete Things are Cast . . . . . 423--423 LeRoy Jeffers Among the Mountains of Western Canada 424--425 Howard C. Kegley The Topical Lamp Post . . . . . . . . . 425--425 Tompkins McIlvaine National Life Insurance on the Endowment Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426 W. A. Murrill Plant Growths that Shed Light . . . . . 427--427 Leon Augustus Hausman Tiny Creatures that Make Bad Water . . . 427--427 J. F. Springer Two Great Organs . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429 Anonymous A Molding Machine Which Throws the Sand 444--444
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--453 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 460--460 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 462--463 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 464--464 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 476--476 Anonymous The Torpedo Motor Boat, The Aerial Mail and Aviation, and more . . . . . . . . . 447--449 E. M. Rush Making an American City . . . . . . . . 450--451 C. H. Claudy Exploiting the Inventor --- III . . . . 452--452 Monroe Woolley Required Reforms of the Road . . . . . . 453--453 H. A. Mount The Story of Radium . . . . . . . . . . 454--455 M. A. Henry Where the Eye Supplants the Ear . . . . 456--456 J. F. Springer The Geology of Ripple Marks . . . . . . 457--457 Seline Hess A Radial Gate for Irrigation Canals . . 457--457 W. A. Butterfield Lilies of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459 H. J. Shepstone A Stranded School of Whales and what it Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461 Francis Dickie Rare South Sea Armor . . . . . . . . . . 461--461 Anonymous Community Pumps for Irrigation, The Current Issue of the \booktitleScientific American Monthly, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--474
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--485 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 494--494 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 496--496 Robert G. Skerrett Can Duplex Craft Speed Up Transportation?, New York's Greatest Handicap, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 479--481 Robert F. Nattan The Ingenuity of the Watchmaker . . . . 482--483 C. H. Claudy' Exploiting the Inventor --- IV . . . . . 484--484 George H. Dacy Subduing the Boll Weevil . . . . . . . . 486--486 John L. Von Blon The House on the Hill with Front Door in the Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--487 S. R. Winters Development of American Clays . . . . . 487--487 W. A. Ehlers Annealing with Gas . . . . . . . . . . . 488--488 Erie A. Dime What Europe is Doing in Aviation --- Americans, Please Take Notice! . . . . . 489--489 George Gaulois Air Bags for the Airplane that Lands on Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--489 Hector C. Bywater The Backbone of Naval Power . . . . . . 490--490 Henry Townsend The Fuel Case of Coke vs. Coal . . . . . 491--491 Allen P. Child Keeping the Construction Laborer Satisfied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491 Anonymous The Steamship Pier Problem . . . . . . . 492--493 Anonymous The Automatic Substation from an Economic Standpoint . . . . . . . . . . 498--500
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May, 1920 . . . . . . . . 522--522 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 523--523 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 524--524 Anonymous Opening Up the Harlem River, Determining Carbon in Steel by Electric Resistance, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509 Robert G. Skerrett The World's Greatest Vehicular Tunnel 510--510 Ralph Howard Bringing the X-Ray to the Patient, Light-Filters for Observing Pilot Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511 L. A. Hawkins The Langmuir Condensation Pump . . . . . 511--511 Anonymous A Forward Step in Automotive Fuels . . . 512--512 Herbert T. Wade The Tools of Science . . . . . . . . . . 513--513 C. H. Claudy A Telephone to Europe? . . . . . . . . . 513--513 S. G. Roberts Harnessing Our Waterpower . . . . . . . 514--515 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Mining Engineering . . . . 516--517 J. F. Springer Watering Idaho's Desert . . . . . . . . 520--521
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 46--46 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 48--48 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Monthly, Obsolete at the Very Outset, and more 32--33 Anonymous Mapping with the Squeeze of a Bulb . . . 34--35 Anonymous A Governmental Step-Child . . . . . . . 36--36 Anonymous Saving a Capsized Dreadnought . . . . . 38--38 Anonymous Revival of Our Oldest Navy Yard . . . . 39--39 Frank M. Williams The New York State Barge Canal --- II 40--41 Anonymous The Shunt-less Freight Terminal . . . . 42--43 Arthur Bennington Why Big Guns are Short-Lived . . . . . . 44--44 John Storck and Cyrus C. The Geographer's Corner . . . . . . . . 49--49
H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 546--547 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 548--548 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 552--552 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 560--560 Anonymous How much Water do we Drink in the United States?, \booktitleScientific American Monthly for May, and more . . . . . . . 535--537 Robert G. Skerrett Piercing the Catskills for Water . . . . 538--538 Ralph Howard Making a River Pump its Water Uphill, Talking to Thousands by Electrifying and Amplifying the Speaker's Voice . . . . . 539--539 W. Lambert To Offset the High Cost of Ice . . . . . 539--539 C. H. Claudy A Merlin of Today . . . . . . . . . . . 540--540 H. A. Mount Hoboes of Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 541--541 H. A. Crafts Making Bad Land Good . . . . . . . . . . 542--542 Anonymous Our Share of the German Fleet . . . . . 543--543 Oscar R. Foster The Architecture of the Atom . . . . . . 544--545
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--569 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 578--579 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 580--580 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 588--588 Alexandre Livventaal The Crop Factory, Steam Locomotives and the Coal Bill, and more . . . . . . . . 563--565 Harry A. Mount Dismantling a City . . . . . . . . . . . 566--566 Ralph Howard The Welded Joint in Structural-Steel Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--567 G. Orb Open-Air Mining of Coal by Electric Shovels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--567 Chauncey P. Carter The International Trademark . . . . . . 568--568 Samuel J. Record Possum Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--569 Anonymous The Laboratory in Business . . . . . . . 570--571 M. A. Henry Ohio's Flood Insurance . . . . . . . . . 572--573 J. F. Springer Pin-Hole Photography . . . . . . . . . . 574--576 Anonymous Laws of Air Resistance of Aerofoils, A Light-Fringe Dilatometer . . . . . . . . 586--586
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--597 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June, 1920 . . . . . . . 602--603 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 604--604 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 606--606 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 612--612 Anonymous Adding Color to the Motion-Picture Screen, Progress in Electrification of Swiss Railways, and more . . . . . . . . 591--593 J. F. Springer The Overhead Cable Crossing . . . . . . 594--594 Wm. A. Murrill The Dendrograph --- An Instrument that Keeps Tabs on Tree Growth, A Fire-Fighting Equipment on Rails . . . . 595--595 S. R. Winters Determining the Heating and Cooling Curves of Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--595 Oscar R. Foster The Architecture of the Molecule . . . . 596--596 J. Walter Fewkes Ancient Remains in Colorado . . . . . . 598--598 Alfred Gradenwitz An Old Departure in Theater Building . . 599--599 Victor Pagé A Racing Car with Two Engines . . . . . 599--599 Charles F. Lang Solving the Short-Haul Problem . . . . . 600--601
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--621 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 628--628 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 636--636 Harry A. Mount Crystals that Speak, The Scientist and his Definitions, and more . . . . . . . 615--617 Robert G. Skerrett Pooling Our Power . . . . . . . . . . . 618--618 Herbert T. Walker Two Engines for One . . . . . . . . . . 619--619 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XIII . . . 620--620 Anonymous The Question of Natural Gas . . . . . . 621--621 J. Bernard Walker Challenger and Defenders of the America's Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--623 Anonymous Putting Plants on Daylight Rations . . . 624--624 W. A. Murrill Where Chocolate Comes from . . . . . . . 626--627
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--645 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 652--652 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 654--654 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 664--664 Anonymous A Boat that Pumps its Way Along, Fighting a Fisherman's Pest, and more 639--641 Harry A. Mount Sounding with Sound . . . . . . . . . . 642--642 James Anderson Making the Milkman Fear the Pump . . . . 643--643 W. F. Wilcox Machinery for the Sugar-Beet Field, Mowing with the Tractor . . . . . . . . 643--643 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Radio Engineering . . . . 644--644 D. H. Colcord The Scientific Basis of Carelessness . . 645--645 M. A. Henry Checking Up Einstein . . . . . . . . . . 646--647 Arthur L. Dahl What About Our Wine Grapes? . . . . . . 648--648 Avis Gordon Vestal Directing the Detourist . . . . . . . . 649--649 Ralph Howard Breaking the World's Motorcycle Records, Lantern Slides by the Yard, and more . . 649--649 Joshua W. Alexander Business and Government . . . . . . . . 650--650 Jacques Boyer Artificial Fertilization of Flowers, Pulling Cables by Auto-Power, and more 651--651 C. T. Mason Barbados an Oil Field, Soapstone, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--663
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--673 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 678--679 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 680--680 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 682--682 Anonymous Forerunners of the Flying Liners, Cleaning a Clock, and more . . . . . . . 667--669 Robert G. Skerrett Duluth to Liverpool in One Bottom . . . 670--670 Vladimir Karapetoff Common Sense in the Laboratory . . . . . 672--672 Anonymous Relieving the Nitrate Pressure . . . . . 673--673 H. A. Mount What is Wrong with Our Paper Supply? . . 674--674 Harry Chapin Plummer With Our Latin Customers . . . . . . . . 675--675 M. A. Henry When the Heart Tells its Story . . . . . 676--676 Ralph Howard How Much Paper in Your Shoes? . . . . . 677--677 Paul Kirkpatrick Electric Power from Sunlight . . . . . . 677--677 W. A. Murrill Fighting for Healthy Plants . . . . . . 677--677 Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Monthly for June . . . . . . . . . . . . 684--684
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--701 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July, 1920 . . . . . . . 706--707 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 708--708 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 710--710 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--718 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 719--719 Ralph Howard Addressing Thousands without Raising the Voice, Commercial Airplane Development, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--697 John W. Kean Wireless Half Way 'Round the World . . . 698--699 C. H. Claudy Turning the Wheels of a Century Hence --- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--700 Jerome Lachenbruch The Silent Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . 702--703 J. F. Springer San Francisco Goes to the Mountains . . 704--704 H. L. Van Keuren Measuring Deflection with Interference Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--705 A. R. Surface An Electrode that Bakes Itself . . . . . 705--705
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61 H. E. Howe Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 66--66 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 68--68 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 70--70 Anonymous A Gaseous Earth and the Space it Would Occupy, Rebuilding Europe with the Tank-Derrick, and more . . . . . . . . . 55--57 R. G. Skerrett Multiple Production --- A New Slogan . . 58--59 William C. Redfield Some Phases of Reconstruction . . . . . 60--60 Anonymous A Competitor for Acetylene . . . . . . . 61--61 J. F. Springer The Alaskan Railways . . . . . . . . . . 62--63 Pierre H. Boucheron The Vacuum Tube --- An Electrical Acrobat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65 Anonymous Patent Office Facts . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 96--96 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 98--98 Anonymous Why it is Twelve O'clock?, Newport or New York for the Cup Races, and more . . 83--85 H. E. Howe Wood Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86 C. Geoffrey Nicholson Some Vegetable Parasites . . . . . . . . 87--87 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- VII . . . . 88--88 Gordon P. Gleason The New York State Barge Canal --- III 90--91 Joseph Mastella Le Grand The Tower Telescope . . . . . . . . . . 92--92 Avis Gordon Vestal Blazing Wisconsin Ways, Hydro Power for the Canadian Farmer, and more . . . . . 93--93 Anonymous Wonderful Clocks of Olden Times . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February, 1920 . . . . . 114--115 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 118--118 Anonymous Why is it a Pound, Rear-Admiral William S. Sims, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107 W. F. Wilcox Mountain-Peak Grazing . . . . . . . . . 108--108 J. A. Stewart Electricity and the Census . . . . . . . 109--109 Wm. H. Walker Anti-Corrosion Engineering . . . . . . . 110--110 Edward S. Walsh The New York State Barge Canal --- IV 112--113 Wilam M. Butterfield A Vegetable Manufacturer of Decorated Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117 Wilamu T. Hornaday The Naturalist's Corner . . . . . . . . 120--122 Anonymous Electrolytic Destruction of Steel Due to Leakage from Electric Railroads, Meters for Measuring Steam, and more . . . . . 124--124
H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 138--139 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 140--140 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 148--150 Anonymous Why Does Your Clock Keep Time?, February Issue of the \booktitleScientific American Monthly, and more . . . . . . . 127--129 J. F. Springer The Panama Terminals . . . . . . . . . . 130--131 Cyrus McCormick, Jr. Coöperation and Industrial Progress . . . 132--133 William T. Hornaday Wild Animal Models at the Zoo . . . . . 134--135 W. A. Ehlers Gas and Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137 Anonymous Training Men for Foreign Fields, Marking American Goods, and more . . . . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--161 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 168--168 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 170--170 Rudolph L. Zimpei Dredges of Other Days, A Simple Matter of Duty, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157 Robert G. Skerrett On River and Canal . . . . . . . . . . . 158--159 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- VIII . . . 160--160 Anonymous The Exploring Rocket . . . . . . . . . . 161--161 Anonymous Airplanes that are Different . . . . . . 162--162 J. F. Springer From Coal Barge to Bunker . . . . . . . 163--163 Robert G. Skerrett Eliminating the Lost Call . . . . . . . 164--165 Anonymous Putting Flax on a Modern Basis . . . . . 166--167 Anonymous The Double Fovea in Birds of Prey, Restoring Stained Glass Windows . . . . 171--171
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 190--191 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 194--194 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 196--196 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 207--208 Anonymous Why is it a Yard?, Some Economies for Welded Ships, and more . . . . . . . . . 179--181 Benjamin F. Miessner Wireless and Everyday Business . . . . . 182--182 Bennie Hall Reclaiming the No-Man's-Land of America 183--183 C. W. Gieger San Francisco as a Fuel Oil Port . . . . 183--183 Leon Augustus Hausman Hairs that Make Fabrics . . . . . . . . 184--184 D. H. Colcord The Scientific Reason for Failure . . . 185--185 J. F. Springer Speaking of Tall Chimneys . . . . . . . 186--186 Charles W. Person The Modem Gas Holder . . . . . . . . . . 187--187 Anonymous Bringing the Electric Drive to Yachting 188--188 Robert H. Moulton Agate Guides for Fishing Rods --- A New America Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189 Austin Parker The All-Year Carburetor . . . . . . . . 189--189
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 226--226 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 228--228 Herbert T. Wade Weighing a Monster Locomotive, A New Aviation Instrument, and more . . . . . 211--213 Robert G. Skerrett Our Deepest Wells . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214 Merrill M. Hunting Gaging Screw Threads with a Beam of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215 George Gaulois What About Our Commercial Aviation? . . 215--215 C. H. Claudy The Fruits of Scientific Farming . . . . 216--216 R. E. Fulton Motor Bus vs. Street Car . . . . . . . . 217--217 John L. Von Blon Mansions of Mud . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218 Ralph Howard Battling with Snow and Ice in the Streets of New York . . . . . . . . . . 219--219 Anonymous Again the Steam Automobile . . . . . . . 220--220 Raymond Francis Yates Melting Brass Electrically, The Artificial Daylight of Photoplay Land 221--221 George H. Dacy Steel and Stone Cannot Stop Them . . . . 222--222 H. E. Howe Better Light for Microscopy . . . . . . 223--223 H. A. Crafts Conquering the Stubborn Soil . . . . . . 223--223 Herbert T. Wade Firing Shell into a Concrete Tank . . . 224--224 Anonymous Electron Tube Generator . . . . . . . . 236--236
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 16--17 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 18--18 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28 J. Malcolm Bird Where the Petroleum Goes, Railroads the Foundation of National Prosperity, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5 J. Bernard Walker Tuning Up for the Cup Races . . . . . . 6--7 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XIV . . . . 8--8 H. T. Waller What Industry Can do for Americanization 9--9 A. R. Surface Wonders in Steel Forging . . . . . . . . 10--11 J. F. Springer Baltimore's Tilting Dam . . . . . . . . 12--12 Ralph Howard How Plate Glass is Made . . . . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous Orchard Medicine Quacks, Moisture Absorption Through Varnish . . . . . . . 24--24 H. A. Gleason The Naturalist's Corner . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September, 1920 . . . . . 224--224 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 229--229 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 230--232 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 240--240 Anonymous Dutch Cooling Towers of Concrete, New Plant Foods, and more . . . . . . . . . 215--217 A. R. Surface Building in the Wilderness . . . . . . . 218--218 Edgar Lockhart The Third Degree for the Baseball . . . 219--219 George Gaulois Handling High Voltage with Bare Hands 219--219 Alexander McAdie Muggy Days and Thirsty Air . . . . . . . 220--220 Ralph Howard Radium and its Works . . . . . . . . . . 221--221 George H. Dacy Where Willow Ware Comes From . . . . . . 222--223 Col. Jesse G. Vincent A Forward Step in American Airplane Engines, This Year's Nominations for the Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226 J. F. Springer Smothering Fire with Bubbles of Gas . . 228--228 Anonymous Is the Dam Safe? . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249 H. E. Howe Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 254--254 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 256--256 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 258--258 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 268--268 Alfred Longville Splitting Hairs With Close-Limit Tools, Shifting Lines, and more . . . . . . . . 243--245 Arthur J. Herschmann and Carl Scheid Turning the \vSkoda Works from Swords to Plowshares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247 Ralph Howard The Greatest of Floating Cranes . . . . 247--247 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Safety Engineering . . . . 248--248 D. Waterson Names That Live in Our Language . . . . 249--249 J. F. Springer Water Pipes of Wood . . . . . . . . . . 250--251 William R. Andrews Checking Up the Gas Meter . . . . . . . 252--252 Austin C. Lescarboura America's Bid for the Gordon Bennett Cup 253--253 Hamilton M. Laing A Queer Visitor in the Garden . . . . . 255--255 Anonymous Malaria Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 283--283 Sydney G. Koon A Mammoth Steam Unit and its Work, Aluminum Dust Explosions, and more . . . 271--273 Robert G. Skerrett Shall the Corn Fields Run Our Cars? . . 274--274 Allen P. Child Clay Needles for the Talking Machine, The Rocking of a Tall Chimney, and more 275--275 Charles Abbott Goddard Putting the Payroll on an Automatic Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275 Anonymous New Concepts of the Past Century . . . . 276--276 John T. Bartlett Shortening the Route from Farm to Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277 Ralph Howard Running the Gauntlet of Quality Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279 Arthur L. Dahl From Fish to Food . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XVII . . . 282--282
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 309--309 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 310--310 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 316--316 Anonymous More Starting Power for the Steam Locomotive, An Announcement, and more 295--297 Anonymous The Disaster to One of Our Latest Submarines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298 Ralph Howard Timing the Hundred-Mile-Per-Hour Racer 299--299 S. R. Winters Bomb-proof Coal Mining . . . . . . . . . 299--299 O. R. Geyer The Oil-Field Geologist . . . . . . . . 300--301 W. F. Sutherland The Toolmaker's Tools . . . . . . . . . 302--303 George M. Verity Solving the Labor Problem --- I . . . . 304--305 Harold J. Shepstone Reconstructing Stonehenge . . . . . . . 308--308 Anonymous To Make Hens' Eggs Hard, ``Flu'' Experiments on Monkeys . . . . . . . . . 315--315
Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 348--348 Anonymous The Future as Suggested by Developments of the Past Seventy-five Years, Civil Engineering, and more . . . . . . . . . 320--321 Anonymous Seventy-Five Years of Invention . . . . 322--325 Anonymous Civil Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326 Anonymous Transportation by Sea and Land . . . . . 327--330 Anonymous Seventy-Five Years of Applied Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--333 Anonymous The Rise of the Automobile . . . . . . . 334--335 Anonymous Seventy-Five Years of Pure Science . . . 336--337 Anonymous The Mastery of the Skies . . . . . . . . 338--339 William I. Wyman Seventy-Five Years of American Patent Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--341 Anonymous The Diamond Jubilee of the \booktitleScientific American . . . . . 342--343 Anonymous From Wet Plate to Motion Pictures . . . 346--346
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October, 1920 . . . . . . 382--384 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 385--386 Anonymous The High-Lift Wing and Commercial Aviation, For an Independent Naval Air Service, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 371--373 Jesse G. Vincent A New Deal in Transportation . . . . . . 374--374 H. A. Mount Applying Radium to Cure Man's Ills . . . 375--375 G. H. Dacy Putting Paper on a Specification Basis 375--375 H. A. Crafts What About Our Wheat Production? . . . . 376--376 Chauncey P. Carter Why we Need a Separate Trade-Mark Bureau 377--377 Charles W. Geiger Twentieth Century Telegraphy . . . . . . 378--379 James Anderson Taking on Oil a Mile at Sea . . . . . . 380--381
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 408--408 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 410--411 Edmund Conaway Transportation in the Oil Fields, The Gordon--Bennett Airplane Race, and more 395--396 M. Tevis Forty Centuries Ago --- And Now . . . . 397--397 Robert G. Skerrett Concrete and the Building Crisis . . . . 398--399 Anonymous The Aerial Cruiser . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401 Anonymous Items in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--403 Robert June Preventing Rust at High Temperatures . . 404--404 E. C. Crossman A Pocket Machine Gun . . . . . . . . . . 405--405 George H. Dacy What Science did for Cheese . . . . . . 406--407 Anonymous Concerning Back Numbers, Propping Fruit Trees with Staples . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 430--430 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 432--432 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 433--434 Anonymous The Household that Packs into a Trunk, Changes Rule of Road, and more . . . . . 419--421 J. F. Springer Making the Hetch--Hetchy Dam Itself . . 422--422 George Gaulois Piloting the Ship with the Ears, Rust Preventives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423 Harry A. Mount A Magnetic-Proof House for the Workers 423--423 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XVIII . . . 424--424 Robert C. Brown Painted Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425 R. P. Crawford A Mechanical Age for the Farm . . . . . 426--427 Robert G. Skerrett Extracting Oil by Electrolytic Action 428--429 C. W. Geiger San Francisco's Traffic Convention and Street Safety Show . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431 James H. Rodgers Something New in Gasoline-Driven Plowing Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431 Anonymous Use of Pulverized Lignite for Fuel in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November, 1920 . . . . . 452--453 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 454--454 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 456--456 C. D. Wagoner The True Role of Water Power, Repairing the Propeller of a Destroyer, and more 441--443 Robert G. Skerrett The Problems of Electrification . . . . 444--444 John L. Von Blon California's Seaweed Industry . . . . . 445--445 George H. Dacy Setting Federal Wheat Standards, Nickel Babbitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445 Austin C. Lescarboura Edison's Views on Life and Death . . . . 446--446 W. B. West Revising High Bridge . . . . . . . . . . 448--448 S. R. Winters Getting a Line on Concrete Pipe . . . . 449--449 G. Orb The Architecture of the Concrete Chimney 449--449 W. A. Ehlers Hardening Steel in Gas Fired Furnaces 450--450 John Jay Ide The Last Race for the Gordon Bennett Cup 451--451 Anonymous Do Moths use ``Wireless''? . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 476--476 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 478--478 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 485--487 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 488--488 Anonymous The Type-Reading Optophone, Our Surplus, Our Ships, and Europe's Need, and more 463--465 H. G. Adams Building Out the Bubonic Plague . . . . 466--466 C. W. Geiger Airbrakes for the Automobile . . . . . . 467--467 G. H. Dacy Automobile Signals for Danger Spots . . 467--467 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Illuminating Engineering 468--468 M. Tevis Do Fish Swim as Airplanes Fly? . . . . . 469--469 Arthur L. Dahl Putting the San Joaquin to Work . . . . 470--471 Hector C. Bywater The ``Super-Destroyer'' . . . . . . . . 472--472 Elmer A. Sperry Golf Without a Caddy . . . . . . . . . . 473--473 Ralph Howard Keeping in Step . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--473 Austin C. Lescarboura Sending Photographs Over Wires . . . . . 474--474 M. Tevis Eliminating the Flash from Rifles and Big Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--484
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 44--44 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 46--46 George H. Dacy Fish Fancying and Freak Farming, The . . 31--33 J. F. Springer The Twentieth-Century Lumber-Jack . . . 34--34 Paul Harnden Is the Anchor Safe?, Electrification in Europe, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35 Jules Gaudel Handling the Heating-Furnace Doors . . . 35--35 C. H. Claudy Turning the Wheels of a Century Hence --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36 A. R. Surface Measuring Steam . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 M. A. Henry Toys that do Great Work . . . . . . . . 38--39 H. A. Mount The Mechanical Hello Girl . . . . . . . 40--41 Ralph Howard The Rôle of Asbestos . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--497 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 504--504 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 506--506 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 512--512 Anonymous In Justice to the War Department, A Stupendous Rapid-Transit Problem, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--493 H. A. Crafts The State and the Farmer . . . . . . . . 494--494 Arthur L. Dahl Winter Fuel from Our Woodlands . . . . . 495--495 G. H. Dacy Forewarnings About Forest Fires . . . . 495--495 H. C. Osborn Solving the Labor Problem --- II . . . . 496--496 M. Tevis ``Obstipui, Comae Steterint'' . . . . . 497--497 Harry A. Mount Fuel or Fertilizer? . . . . . . . . . . 498--498 Ralph Howard A Tractor that turns in the Space it Stands On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499 S. R. Winters Gas-Tubing Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499 Anonymous The Traffic Problem in New York City . . 500--501 William A. McGarry First Aid for Inventors . . . . . . . . 502--503 Anonymous What about Our Wheat Production? . . . . 511--511
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--521 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 526--527 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 528--528 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 530--530 Anonymous A Curious Little Monorail Road in Ireland, Living Bean Poles, and more . . 515--517 Robert G. Skerrett Something Different in Salvaging Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--518 George Gaulois A New Magnesium Alloy for Motor Pistons 519--519 A. R. Surface A Giant Ingot-Mold Casting in the Making 519--519 C. H. Claudy Aircraft of the Future . . . . . . . . . 520--520 Anonymous The Five States of Matter . . . . . . . 521--521 Harry A. Mount Our Coal in the Making . . . . . . . . . 522--523 H. C. Hardy Taming the River Nile . . . . . . . . . 524--524 George H. Dacy Keeping Tabs on Bird Peculiarities . . . 525--525 William A. Murrill How Meadow Mice Destroy Trees . . . . . 525--525
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--545 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 552--552 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 554--554 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 559--559 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 559--560 R. P. Nichols Detecting and Preventing Leakage in the Soft-Coal Pile, Our Navy and the Japanese Bogy, and more . . . . . . . . 540--542 Frank M. Williams Making the Barge Canal Pay . . . . . . . 542--542 H. J. Shepstone Jerusalem's New Water Works . . . . . . 543--543 Charles P. Fryer Light Burning in California Forests . . 543--543 William Ressman Andrews One Hundred Years of Gas Lighting . . . 544--544 George Gaulois Tuning and Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 545--545 Ladislas d'Orcy The Dawn of American Commercial Aviation 546--546 Harry A. Mount In the Modern Sawmill . . . . . . . . . 548--548 Alfred Gradenwitz Carbonic Acid Gas to Fertilize the Air 549--549 Thomas Ewing Dabney Mechanical Stevedore that Handles Bananas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--549 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 550--550 Anonymous Roller Bearings for Line Shafts, Gravity as an Aid to Production, and more . . . 558--558
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December, 1920 . . . . . 574--575 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 576--576 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 578--578 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 584--584 Ralph Howard Seattle's Record Pier, Where the Lumber Goes, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--565 Anonymous That Parallel Postulate . . . . . . . . 565--565 Winthrop Talbot Illiterate Adults . . . . . . . . . . . 566--566 Arthur L. Dahl Motor Trucks in Orchards . . . . . . . . 567--567 H. A. Crafts Cover Crops for Our Orchards . . . . . . 567--567 Anthony M. Rud A Railroad to Hudson Bay! . . . . . . . 568--569 Anonymous Items in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--571 Robert G. Skerrett Asbestos in Architecture . . . . . . . . 572--572 Alfred Gradenwitz The Flyer's Artificial Eye and Ear, Finding a Cool Hat . . . . . . . . . . . 573--573 George Gaulois When a Lighting Fixture is not a Fixture, What is Dry Rot? . . . . . . . 573--573
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--593 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 600--600 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 604--604 Anonymous Naval and Merchant Marine, Astronomy, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--589 William Benjamin West The World's Greatest Shipping Terminal? 590--590 Samuel J. Record From Wood to Cloth . . . . . . . . . . . 591--591 J. Flagler Wright A Giant of Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--591 William I. Wyman The Needs of the Patent Office . . . . . 592--593 James Anderson Surveying America's Snows . . . . . . . 594--594 Charles N. Winter A Unit System of Freight Transportation 595--595 Hjalmer Lindquist Applying Elevator Principles to the Railroad Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--595 Harry A. Mount Wanted: An Inexpensive House . . . . . . 596--596 Harry Chapin Plummer Venezuela's Mountain-Climbing Oil-Burning Locomotives . . . . . . . . 597--597 Alfred Longville An Airplane with Variable Wing Surface Area, Paper from Veneer Waste . . . . . 597--597 J. F. Springer Music from Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--599
H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 616--616 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 617--617 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 618--618 Anonymous Electric Propulsion for Our Merchant Marine, Synthetic Benzine and more . . . 605--607 Crittenden Marriott Power and the City . . . . . . . . . . . 608--608 Alfred Longville The Unusual in Passenger-Carrying Airplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--609 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Signal Engineering . . . . 610--610 E. W. Hulet Solving the Labor Problem --- III . . . 611--611 Francis Z. Hazlett The Farm Tractor in 1920 . . . . . . . . 612--613 Harry A. Mount Our Diamond Industry . . . . . . . . . . 614--614 Anonymous Radio Prize Winner for 1919 . . . . . . 620--620
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 638--638 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--644 G. H. Dacy Where Uncle Sam's Income Goes, The Progress of the Einstein Judges . . . . 625--625 Anonymous The Progress of the Einstein Judges, Are we to Become the War Pace-Maker?, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--627 Arthur L. Dahl Our Lagging Gold Production . . . . . . 628--628 J. F. Springer The North Platte Project Today . . . . . 629--629 S. R. Winters How Hard is a Rock? . . . . . . . . . . 629--629 Frederick L. Hoffman Why the Cliff Dwellers Vanished . . . . 630--630 Marcus Benjamin The New President of the American Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--631 Sanford G. Plumb Disposing of the Sewage . . . . . . . . 632--633 Harry A. Mount A New American Industry . . . . . . . . 634--634 Ralph Howard Old 999 Still in Service . . . . . . . . 635--635 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 636--637
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 68--68 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 70--70 Anonymous A Tiny Railroad, at Once a Toy and a Tool, Stained Glass Once More in Vogue, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57 E. W. Davidson A Chemical Loafer, and How it was Put to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58 B. F. Mundorff Digging and Loading in One Motion . . . 59--59 George Gaulois Mining Coal with a Dredge . . . . . . . 59--59 Anonymous Pedigreed Chicks, A New Form of Vibration Galvanometer . . . . . . . . . 59--59 C. H. Claudy Turning the Wheels of a Century Hence --- III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60 George F. Paul Fighting Waves with Compressed Air . . . 61--61 H. A. Mount What About Our Forests? . . . . . . . . 62--63 J. Bernard Walker ``Resolute'' Defends the Cup . . . . . . 64--65 Robert H. Moulton The Man Behind Our Daily Bread . . . . . 66--67 Anonymous Preventing the Oxidation of Metals from Heat, Ball Bearings in Steamship Engines, Invention in Flashlight Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 91--91 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 92--92 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96 Anonymous The Last Word in Wireless --- The New York Radio Central Station, A Real Start in Aeronautics, and more . . . . . . . . 79--81 J. F. Springer Descendants of the Water-Wheel . . . . . 82--82 F. Honoré Fifteen Thousand Photographs per Second 83--83 A. R. Surface Better Steel Ingots with Less Waste, Chemical Warfare Service School . . . . 83--83 Eben Griffiths Lubricating the World . . . . . . . . . 84--84 John T. Bartlett Some Observations on Eggs . . . . . . . 85--85 Anonymous Cutter Versus Sloop . . . . . . . . . . 86--87 H. A. Mount Uncle Samuel's Sweet Tooth . . . . . . . 88--89 Robert G. Skerrett Going to Sea in a Tank . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August, 1920 . . . . . . 109--109 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 110--110 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 111--111 M. A. Henry Keeping the River Tunnel Dry, Spontaneous Combustion Temperatures of Liquid Fuels, and more . . . . . . . . . 99--101 A. Hooton Blackiston Our Future Oil Supply . . . . . . . . . 102--102 H. A. Mount Scrapping Good Machinery for Better Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 S. R. Winters How a Road Rests in its Bed, Soap from Lignite Tar Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XV . . . . 104--104 J. F. Springer Our Mechanical Eyes . . . . . . . . . . 106--106 George H. Dacy Learning by Seeing . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 J. E. D. Meador Keeping the Camera on an Even Keel, Telephoning in Cipher . . . . . . . . . 107--107 J. Bernard Walker The America's Cup Races . . . . . . . . 108--108 Anonymous Australian ``Blackboy'' Tree . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 134--134 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 144--144 Anonymous Fair Weather Yachts, Wood as a Structural Material, and more . . . . . 120--121 H. A. Mount In the Wake of the Woodsman . . . . . . 122--122 E. W. Davidson The Last Word in Searchlights . . . . . 123--123 M. Tevis Guiding Ships by Electric Cables . . . . 123--123 John Boyle, Jr. Who Invented it First? . . . . . . . . . 124--124 Herbert T. Wade The Metric System . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125 Robert G. Skerrett Our Deep-Sea Freighters . . . . . . . . 126--127 J. Bernard Walker The America's Cup Races . . . . . . . . 128--129 George Gaulois The Romance of Tungsten . . . . . . . . 130--131 Anonymous Gas-Filled Tungsten Lamp Patent Sustained, Right Foundation for Our Roads, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 160--160 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 162--162 Anonymous If Our Cereal Harvest Should Descend on New York City, Phosphoric Acid and Potash Now Produced, and more . . . . . 147--149 Robert G. Skerrett Reducing Trade Routes with Submarine Freighters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Railway Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152 Robert Carlton Brown Electrification in Brazil . . . . . . . 153--153 Samuel O. Hoffman Seeing in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 J. T. Rowland Pulp Wood from Labrador . . . . . . . . 156--156 Arthur L. Dahl Harvesting the Hay the Latest Way . . . 157--157 Alfred Longville Shade Trees for City Streets, Testing Biological Products in England, and more 157--157 J. Bernard Walker The Racing Airplane of the Future . . . 158--159
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 186--186 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 187--188 Anonymous Emptying Eight Freight Cars into a Thimble, No Relation Between Cultivation and Rainfall, and more . . . . . . . . . 171--173 Harry A. Mount Is there a Coal Shortage? . . . . . . . 174--175 Richard L. Humphrey An Engineering Bulwark . . . . . . . . . 176--176 George A. Dacy Reclaiming Salt Surfeited Soils . . . . 177--177 Anonymous The World's Largest Crane . . . . . . . 178--179 Wendell M. Whiting Record Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XVI . . . . 182--183 Anonymous Return Loads Bureau Idea in England, Converting Garbage into a Real Asset . . 192--192
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 208--208 George Gaulois New York's Radio Pilot Cable, To Preserve a Beautiful and Historic Work, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196 H. A. Crafts Gas Engine Versus Steam Engine . . . . . 197--197 J. F. Springer A Neat Problem in Hydraulics . . . . . . 198--198 George H. Dacy How a State May Grow a Timber Supply . . 199--199 M. A. Henry Varying the Airplane Propeller Pitch, Joseph Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., and more 199--199 Anonymous What has Been Said About Einstein . . . 200--201 H. A. Mount Fire Without Firemen . . . . . . . . . . 202--203 Charles N. Winter Oil as a Locomotive Fuel . . . . . . . . 203--203 Robert H. Moulton Wood that is Stronger than Steel . . . . 204--205 Anonymous Items in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January, 1921 . . . . . . 12--13 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 14--14 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 16--16 Anonymous Review of the Year 1920 . . . . . . . . 2--3 Victor W. Page The Trend of Design for 1921 . . . . . . 4--5 Austin C. Lescarboura Automotive Milestones . . . . . . . . . 6--6 W. E. Vogelback The Trend of Specialization . . . . . . 7--7 Victor W. Page Where is that Rattle? . . . . . . . . . 8--8 Anonymous European Automobile Design for 1921 . . 9--9 Louis C. Kane Mapping the Waters Along Our Coasts . . 10--11 Anonymous The Role of the Patent System in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187 Raymond Smith Dugan The Heavens in March, 1921 . . . . . . . 192--192 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 193--193 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 194--194 Anonymous What Becomes of Our Coal?, Honeycombs of Aluminum, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183 Anonymous Who Shall Work the Farms? --- I . . . . 184--184 William A. McGarry Salvaging Torpedo Boats for Peaceful Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185 A. R. Surface Copper in Steel and the Corrosion of Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185 Frank E. Law From the Einstein Contest --- III . . . 186--187 Harry A. Mount Making Weather to Order . . . . . . . . 188--189 Robert G. Skerrett Air Plus Oil Equals More Oil . . . . . . 190--190 Wm. A. Murrill The Papaya, or Tree Melon . . . . . . . 191--191 T. M. Fraser The Trumpeter Swan . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 212--212 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 214--214 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215 Anonymous Books: New Books, etc. . . . . . . . . . 215--215 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 216--216 Charles Nevers Holmes The Heart as a Pumping Engine . . . . . 201--201 Anonymous ``A Strong Navy'', Einstein's Finite Universe, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203 J. F. Springer The Falsework for a Big Dam . . . . . . 204--204 Ralph Howard Making Electric Insulators of Porcelain 205--205 S. R. Winters A Measure of Interior Lighting . . . . . 205--205 Charles E. Duryea Brief Facts About Money . . . . . . . . 206--207 George H. Dacy Who Shall Work the Farms? --- II . . . . 208--209 Anonymous Solving the Labor Problem --- IV . . . . 210--210 Anonymous Stray Current Electrolysis . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 234--234 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 236--236 Anonymous Hudson River Bridge or Tunnel --- Which?, Our Merchant Fleet and Free Ports, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223 Anonymous Reorganizing the Port of New York . . . 224--224 Ralph Howard Better Railway Ticket Selling, Rats and Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225 George F. Paul Outwitting the French Customs . . . . . 225--225 Anonymous From the Einstein Contest --- IV . . . . 226--226 Victor W. Page The Balky Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 J. H. Armstrong Canada's New Parliament Buildings . . . 228--229 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XX . . . . 230--231 Henry Vendelmans Making a Forest to Order . . . . . . . . 232--233
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 254--254 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 256--256 Ralph Howard Railroad Accidents and How They Work, Our Attitude Toward the Port and Harbor Plan, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243 Anonymous The Electric Battleship . . . . . . . . 244--245 Robert G. Skerrett Canada's Superpower Zone . . . . . . . . 246--246 Leigh Page Relativity and a Rotating Disk . . . . . 247--247 Dard Hunter Watermarking Hand-Made Papers . . . . . 248--249 Arthur L. Dahl Putting Rejected Oranges to Work . . . . 250--251 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 252--253
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1921 . . . . . . . 272--272 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 274--274 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 276--276 Anonymous A Call for the Automatic Stop, Do You Want an Airship?, and more . . . . . . . 262--263 C. H. Claudy Twelve Hundred Charts at a Third of a Cent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--264 Harry A. Mount When Humpty-Dumpty Travels . . . . . . . 265--265 M. A. Henry The Why of Luminous Paints . . . . . . . 265--265 Robert G. Skerrett Making the Most of Niagara . . . . . . . 266--266 Anonymous A Problem of Electric Drive . . . . . . 267--267 S. R. Winters Jobs for Sawdust . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269 Albert A. Hopkins The Musical Hospital . . . . . . . . . . 270--271 W. A. Kimball Optical Tricks with Electric Sparks, Reclamation Project in Northeastern Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273 Charles W. Gilmore An Extinct Sea Lizard from Western Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 292--293 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 294--294 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 295--296 Anonymous Books: New Books, etc. . . . . . . . . . 300--300 Anonymous Army Engineers Report Against Ocean Ship Canal, The Battle of the Brakes, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283 S. R. Winters Uncle Sam's Artificial Fish . . . . . . 284--284 Alfred Longville Logging by Electricity . . . . . . . . . 285--285 James Anderson The Civil War Carved in Granite . . . . 285--285 Arthur L. Dahl Some Special Uses of Redwood . . . . . . 286--286 Robert G. Skerrett Rails and Railroads . . . . . . . . . . 287--287 C. H. Claudy Two Hundred Thousand Photographs per Minute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289 Hector C. Bywater The British Fleet of Today . . . . . . . 290--291
Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 314--314 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 315--315 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 316--316 Anonymous A New Form of Hydraulic Propulsion, Tidal Power in France, and more . . . . 301--303 Robert G. Skerrett Germany's Brown Coal . . . . . . . . . . 304--304 M. A. Henry From Brewing Beer to Raising Mushrooms 305--305 S. R. Winters Testing Roadbed Conditions by the Resistance Method . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305 Charles Frederick Carter Solving the Labor Problem --- V . . . . 306--307 J. F. Springer Preventing the Roll of Ships . . . . . . 308--309 Harry A. Mount Finding Jobs for Radium . . . . . . . . 310--311 Lyne O. Battle The Battleship and the Junk Heap . . . . 312--313
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 334--334 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 335--336 George Philip Paul Man-Killing Insects, The Hudson River Bridge, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--323 Anonymous The Hudson River Bridge . . . . . . . . 324--324 S. R. Winters Milk Without Cows . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325 Charles P. Steinmetz Stopping Our Coal Leaks . . . . . . . . 325--325 John T. Rowland The Sailing Ship's Return . . . . . . . 326--326 William Henry Bowling On the Green . . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Alfred Gradenwitz Cinematography at the Winning-Post . . . 327--327 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Scientific Farming . . . . 328--328 Anonymous The Train Director and his Work . . . . 329--329 Leonard Matters Hydroelectric Power in Argentina . . . . 330--331 S. R. Winters A Hospital for Mail Bags . . . . . . . . 332--333 Anonymous New Remedy for Healing Wounds . . . . . 340--340
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 354--354 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 356--356 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 360--360 Anonymous Phantom Ships, Measuring Impact Effects on Roads, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343 Robert G. Skerrett American Lignite Coals . . . . . . . . . 344--344 James Anderson Recruits for the World's Biggest Fish Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--345 S. R. Winters What Happens to Ground Water and Why . . 345--345 Anonymous The Vest-Pocket Automobile . . . . . . . 346--347 Reginald A. Fessenden ``Banking'' Electricity for Universal Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348 J. F. Springer A City Without Water . . . . . . . . . . 350--351 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 352--353 Anonymous Dyspepsia After Six Months . . . . . . . 359--359
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May, 1921 . . . . . . . . 372--373 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 374--374 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 376--376 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 380--380 John Anson Ford Tilting Grain Cars in All Directions to Empty Them, The Roger Bacon Manuscript, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--363 W. B. West America's Greatest Dam . . . . . . . . . 364--365 Albert A. Hopkins Looking Backward Four Thousand Years . . 366--367 Austin C. Lescarboura Fuel Conservation Opinions --- I . . . . 368--368 F. Rowlinson Cold Vulcanization of Rubber . . . . . . 369--369 Robert G. Skerrett Machine-Made Window Glass . . . . . . . 370--371 Anonymous How to Tell Birch, Beech and Maple Apart 379--379
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 36--36 M. Tevis The Solar System in Miniature . . . . . 21--21 Anonymous World Hunger for Disarmament, A Neglected Transportation Facility, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23 Victor W. Page Doing Away with the Loafing Charge . . . 24--24 Bertram W. Williams Aircraft for Pleasure . . . . . . . . . 25--25 Ralph Howard The Efficient Tire Pump . . . . . . . . 25--25 Austin C. Lescarboura Fifty Motor Truck Opinions . . . . . . . 26--26 George Gaulois X-Ray Tubes by the Hundreds . . . . . . 28--29 Victor W. Page The Trend of Motor Truck Design for 1921 30--31 C. H. Claudy Something for Nothing . . . . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous Leather Waste for Heels in Germany . . . 40--40
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 392--393 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 394--394 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 396--396 Anonymous A Giant Among Mine Hoists, Who Is Delaying Disarmament?, and more . . . . 381--383 Robert G. Skerrett Keeping Our Railroads Up to the Mark . . 384--384 Thomas M. Fraser Canada's Big Oil Strike . . . . . . . . 385--385 O. R. Geyer Motorizing the Rural Church . . . . . . 385--385 Austin C. Lescarboura Fuel Conservation Opinions --- II . . . 386--386 Ralph Howard Farming with Electricity . . . . . . . . 387--387 S. R. Winters When Oysters Are in Season . . . . . . . 388--389 J. F. Springer Fixed Stars That Are Not Fixed . . . . . 390--391
Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 414--414 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 416--416 Anonymous Co-Ordinating our Waterways, The ``Mystery Towers'' Explained, and more 402--403 Robert G. Skerrett Putting Waste Metals to Work . . . . . . 404--405 William Henry The Fragrant Weed . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407 H. Gardner McKerrow The Truth About the Dye Industry . . . . 408--408 Anonymous The Giant of the Skies . . . . . . . . . 409--409 Anonymous ``Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409 Arthur H. Lynch Radio with the Arc Transmitter . . . . . 410--411 Hector C. Bywater A Super-Dreadnaught as Target . . . . . 412--413 Anonymous The Effect of Weight or Pressure . . . . 415--415
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--429 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 433--434 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 438--438 Anonymous The Senate and the People, A New Dispensary of Popular Science, and more 422--423 Harry A. Mount The One-Piece House . . . . . . . . . . 424--425 Kenneth E. Stuart Electric Trains without Crews . . . . . 426--426 S. R. Winters Molasses for Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427 A. R. Surface American Magnesite, Army vs. Navy Ration 427--427 C. H. Claudy Reorganizing Our Government Machinery --- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428 Anonymous Super-Speed Propellers . . . . . . . . . 430--431 Anonymous The Roger Bacon Manuscript . . . . . . . 432--432 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 436--436
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June, 1921 . . . . . . . 452--453 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 454--454 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 456--456 Anonymous A Submarine Plow for the Submarine Telephone Cable, New Way of Singeing Chickens, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 441--443 Samuel J. Record Our Tropical Timber Trade . . . . . . . 444--444 Harry A. Mount The Burning Mines of the Hocking Valley 445--445 A. Gradenwitz Weighing the Ten-Millionth of a Milligram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445 George H. Dacy Revolutionizing an Industry . . . . . . 446--446 George Gaulois Is the Practical Helicopter in Sight?, Measuring Vapor Pressures, and more . . 447--447 C. H. Claudy Reorganizing Our Government Machinery --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448 L. H. Rosenberg A New Era in Wireless . . . . . . . . . 449--449 J. Bern Walker A Study in Magnitude . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 472--473 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 474--475 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 476--476 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 478--478 Anonymous The Yangtse Shallow-Draft Steamer ``Anning'', Aerial Radio Protection, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--463 Howard Greene Putting Motion into Mechanical Drawings 464--464 Ralph Howard Counting Electrons . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465 S. R. Winters Diagnosis by Wireless . . . . . . . . . 465--465 Anonymous Below Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--467 Anonymous An Alternative to Einstein . . . . . . . 468--468 Thomas J. Keenan New Sources of Pulp and Paper . . . . . 469--469 J. F. Springer Sixty Tons Per Minute . . . . . . . . . 470--470 George H. Dacy Valuable Binder Material from Waste, Giant Crane Lifts its Smaller Brother 471--471
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--489 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 495--495 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 496--496 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 497--497 Anonymous The Peril of Floods, Enormous Waste in Industries, and more . . . . . . . . . . 482--483 Charles Frederick Carter What is the Trouble with the Railroads? 484--484 J. F. Springer The Storm King Road . . . . . . . . . . 485--485 Rozel Gotthold Controlling the Lower Mississippi . . . 485--485 Robert G. Skerrett Facts About Concrete . . . . . . . . . . 486--487 Charles E. Duryea Brief Fallacies About Money . . . . . . 488--488 Anonymous Red Rust in Hot Water Pipes and the Cause, A New Dental Anesthetic, and more 489--489 J. F. Springer The Craters of the Moon . . . . . . . . 490--491 William A. Murrill Cacti and Their Uses . . . . . . . . . . 492--493 Anonymous Colorado's Cloud-Burst . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--509 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 514--514 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 518--518 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--522 Anonymous Compromise, with a Big Stick, Shipping Troubles, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503 J. F. Springer Canada's Great Ship Canal . . . . . . . 504--505 Anonymous Improvements in Train Braking . . . . . 506--508 William Crowder How the Lower Animals See . . . . . . . 509--509 Anonymous Tricks of Traffic Control . . . . . . . 510--510 Charles W. Geiger The Up-to-the-Minute Laundry . . . . . . 511--511 William Henry Racing with Model Yachts . . . . . . . . 511--511 Bridgman Harvard Concerning Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--513 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 516--516 Anonymous Attention to Details Essential to Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519
Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 54--54 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 56--56 Anonymous A Billion Dollars, A New Airplane Wing, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43 J. F. Springer Canada's Niagara Development . . . . . . 44--44 Ralph Howard Fifth Avenue's Traffic Tower . . . . . . 45--45 S. E. Winters Sunshine and Balloon Silk . . . . . . . 45--45 C. H. Claudy The Romance of Invention --- XIX . . . . 46--47 S. R. Winters Insect Ravages in Our Forests . . . . . 48--49 Anonymous Building a Rigid Airship . . . . . . . . 50--51 G. Orb The Story of the Prune . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67 H. E. Howe Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 72--73 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 74--74 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 78--78 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 80--80 Anonymous Labor and the Industrial Engineer, Crippling American Aviation, and more 62--63 James Anderson Paper from Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64 Robert G. Skerrett Every Automobile its Own Elevator . . . 65--65 Harold F. Blanchard A Near-Diesel Engine for the Airplane 65--65 Charles Frederick Carter The Case for the Steam Locomotive . . . 66--66 Anonymous Developing One Million Horsepower from Tidal Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67 Ralph Howard A Daring Ship Design . . . . . . . . . . 68--69 Anonymous Panama Canal Facts . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71 Anonymous ``Koka Seki'' and its Uses . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 94--94 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 96--96 Ralph Howard Prices --- Today, Yesterday and Before the War, The Einstein Award, and more 81--83 J. F. Springer The Mississippi's Mouth . . . . . . . . 84--84 Alfred Longville New York's Snow-Fighting Tractor Plows 85--85 George Gaulois The Motor Sled Versus the Dog Sled . . . 85--85 S. G. Roberts Power in Big Packages . . . . . . . . . 86--86 Anonymous A Matter of Definition . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Henry P. Westcott Where the Printer gets his Ink . . . . . 88--88 P. W. Claassen Are We Abusing Our Water Resources? . . 90--90 J. Bernard Walker New Battle-Cruiser ``Constellation'' . . 91--91 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 92--93
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February, 1921 . . . . . 112--113 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 114--114 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 116--116 Charles C. Phelps Stopping the Chimney Thief, How the Einstein Contest Worked, and more . . . 101--103 M. R. Reynolds Open Roads All Winter . . . . . . . . . 104--104 Harry A. Mount Stunts of the Stage . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 George Gaulois The World War on Rats . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Anonymous Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107 Anonymous Some Einstein Contest Personalities . . 107--107 J. F. Springer The Big Dam on the Little San Diego . . 108--109 Jacques Boyer Artificial Ammonia . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 134--135 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 136--136 Anonymous A Second Panama Canal, The King's Cup Ocean Race, and more . . . . . . . . . . 122--123 William A. McGarry A Giant Job of Underpinning . . . . . . 124--124 Corley P. McDarment Why Balloons Bounce Off Clouds . . . . . 125--125 W. C. White The Vacuum Tube as an Engineering Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125 C. H. Thomas Pumping Coal from Mine to Seaboard . . . 126--126 Herbert T. Walker Little Things that Count Big . . . . . . 126--126 Leon Augustus Hausman How we Think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128 Anonymous Leading Navies Compared . . . . . . . . 130--131 G. A. McWilliams The Engineers of Ancient Egypt . . . . . 132--133 Anonymous Industrial Skin Hazards . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 154--154 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 156--156 Charles Nevers Holmes ``The Breath of Life'', Copper Etching Facts, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143 Robert G. Skerrett Shipping Coal by Wire . . . . . . . . . 144--144 A. R. Surface How Pullman Space is Sold . . . . . . . 145--145 Edmund Conaway A Rural School Museum . . . . . . . . . 145--145 Anonymous The New Concepts of Time and Space . . . 146--147 Frederick S. Mills Film Lighting as a Fine Art . . . . . . 148--148 George Gaulois The Army School for Weather Observers 149--149 S. R. Winters Round Seeds and Mechanical Ingenuity, Making Porous Bricks of Slag . . . . . . 149--149 Arthur L. Dahl Salt from the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150 Ralph Howard Solid Fuel for the Gas Engine . . . . . 151--151 Jacques Boyer Keeping Check on Factory Air . . . . . . 151--151 Anonymous Why Not Radio? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153 Anonymous A New Wheatstone Bridge, New Process for Cracking Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 174--174 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 176--176 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 178--180 Anonymous The Latest Japanese Battleship ``Nagato'', Development of Germany's Inland Waterways, and more . . . . . . . 161--163 J. F. Springer The Big Eddy Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165 R. H. Goddard That Moon Rocket Proposition . . . . . . 166--166 Ernest Townsend Williamson Shall We Have a National Trade-Mark? . . 167--167 Ladislas d'Orcy Winged Transportation . . . . . . . . . 168--169 L. Lodian Latin Foods in Old New York . . . . . . 170--170 R. G. Skerrett A Phonograph that is Always at its Best, Power Transmission by Fluid Waves, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens for July, 1921 . . . . . . . 12--12 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 14--14 Anonymous The Limitations of Aerial Bombing, The Lampert Bill, and more . . . . . . . . . 2--2 Anonymous Naval and Merchant Marine, Science, Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous Is it to be Bomb or Battleship? . . . . 4--5 Robert A. Campbell Saving the Sockeye . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7 Anonymous The Rag-Doll Seed-Tester, A New Means of Carrying Plant Disease, and more . . . . 7--7 Anonymous Bridging the Delaware at Philadelphia 8--9 Harry A. Mount Animal Tissue that Does not Die . . . . 10--10 Robert G. Skerrett The Condensing of Milk . . . . . . . . . 11--11 Anonymous A Rocking Stone from Buenos Aires, Berlin's Forthcoming Skyscraper, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September, 1921 . . . . . 168--168 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 170--170 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 172--172 Crede Haskins Calhoun Water Supply of the Panama Canal . . . . 157--157 Anonymous The Loss of ``ZR-2'', Uncharted Perils of the Road, and more . . . . . . . . . 158--159 George H. Dacy Our ``ZR-2'' Airship and its Shed . . . 160--160 C. O. Liljegren The Motor Clipper . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162 Harry A. Mount Industrial Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Anonymous From Swords to Plowshares . . . . . . . 165--165 G. A. Orb Cultivated Rubber . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185 H. E. Howe and Chemical Engineer Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 188--188 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 189--189 Anonymous Announcement, Bending Strength of ``ZR-2'', and more . . . . . . . . . . . 177--179 George H. Dacy The Geologist's Part in Road Building 180--180 Harry A. Mount Developing Motion Picture Film with Automatic Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 181--181 John Edwin Hogg Water Level and Weather Observation Station at the Salton Sea . . . . . . . 181--181 S. R. Winters The All-Around Vegetable . . . . . . . . 182--183 Jennings C. Wise The Economic Aspects of Mobilization . . 184--184 John Lathrop Rapid Transit Arithmetic . . . . . . . . 185--185 C. H. Claudy From Star to Chronometer via Radio . . . 186--187 Anonymous Using Cadmium to Galvanize Iron . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 206--206 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 208--208 Anonymous A New Type of Ferryboat, Rings Bell if Water is Found in Gas, and more . . . . 193--195 Avis Gordon Vestal A New Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196 William A. McGarry Philadelphia's Tear Bombs and Mobs . . . 197--197 A. Dagory Copper-Fouling of Ordnance Materials . . 197--197 J. F. Springer A Problem in Levels . . . . . . . . . . 198--199 Ladislas d'Orcy The Lesson of the ``ZR-2'' Disaster . . 200--200 Mary Ethel Jameson Group Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201 L. Lodian Fish Stories that are Stranger than Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203 C. W. Mehling and Jas. W. Carpenter When Electricity Fires the Enamel Ware 204--205 Anonymous Dyes for China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 226--226 Anonymous Is Airship Travel Profitable?, The Divining Rod, and more . . . . . . . . . 214--215 George H. Dacy Saving Food Fish by the Hundred Million 216--217 Charles Frederick Carter Keeping the Railroads Afloat . . . . . . 218--218 E. F. Cone The Divining Rod Made Respectable . . . 219--219 E. W. Davidson A. Bridge Building Record . . . . . . . 220--221 Anonymous Glass Tubes by Machine . . . . . . . . . 222--223 George H. Dacy How Much Water for the Crops ? . . . . . 224--225 Anonymous Pearls in Plants, Fooling Fish with Colored Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October, 1921 . . . . . . 240--240 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 242--242 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 244--244 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 248--248 E. F. Cone Something New in Electric Furnaces . . . 229--229 Anonymous Artesian Reservoirs for Intermittent Supplies of Energy, The Illuminated Highway, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231 John L. Von Blon Death Valley Transportation . . . . . . 232--232 S. R. Winters Getting a Line on the Higher Atmospheres 233--233 Ralph Howard The Parseval Semi-Rigid Airship ``PL-27'', Curing Leprosy with Antimony 233--233 E. C. Crossman Needed --- A New Army Uniform . . . . . 234--235 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Scientific Research . . . 236--236 Albert A. Hopkins The Role of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . 237--237 T. Gibb Juice of the Poppy . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239 Anonymous Doing Away with Postage Stamps, From Greenhouse to Swimming Pool, and more 241--241 Anonymous Anchoring Fly-a-way Seeds, Cement-Coated Nails and their Origin, and more . . . . 245--245 Anonymous Showing the Earth's Movement, New Cold Method of Making Porcelain, and more . . 247--248
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 262--262 Anonymous Disarmament and Pacifism, The Technique of Road Repairing, and more . . . . . . 250--251 Robert G. Skerrett The Hudson River Caissons . . . . . . . 252--253 Albert A. Hopkins Behind the Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . 254--255 Charles W. Paddock The Science of Athletics . . . . . . . . 256--256 Anonymous High Pressure Steam . . . . . . . . . . 257--257 Anonymous Making Lenses in America . . . . . . . . 258--259 Thomas Ewing Dabney Fighting the Water Hyacinth . . . . . . 260--261
E. R. Mundorff Eliminating the Planked Railway Highway Crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265 Anonymous Seeds and Age, Damaged in Transit, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267 Anonymous Man-Made Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268 H. F. Crafts A Fuel Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268 Anonymous Some New Mechanical Amusement Devices, A Centrifugal Concrete Mixer . . . . . . . 269--269 J. F. Springer The Story of Cork . . . . . . . . . . . 270--271 S. R. Winters The U.S. Collection of Animal Parasites 271--271 Herbert D. Brown Saving Uncle Sam's Pennies . . . . . . . 272--272 Richard Gruen Blast Furnace Slag . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273 Albert A. Hopkins Our Latest Science --- Eugenics . . . . 273--273 William R. Andrews The Aviator's Tell-Tales . . . . . . . . 274--275 Jacques Boyer Mixing Liquids by Machine . . . . . . . 275--275 William T. Hornaday Zebras in New York . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277 Anonymous Testing the Purity of Quinine . . . . . 278--278 Anonymous Soil Acidity, The Diver from a Biological Point of View . . . . . . . . 279--280
H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 57--57 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November, 1921 . . . . . 58--58 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 60--62 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 63--65 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 66--66 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 68--68 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 69--69 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 73--73 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 74--75 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 J. Malcolm Bird Tours and Detours . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8 Anonymous The ``Big Five'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10 Alfred Gradenwitz The Chemistry of the Volatile . . . . . 10--10 J. Bernard Walker Naval Strength of United States, Great Britain and Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13 Anonymous The Cricket on the Wire . . . . . . . . 13--13 Carleton Simon From Opium to Hash Eesh . . . . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous A Photographic Innovation . . . . . . . 15--15 Edison What do you Know? . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17 Austin C. Lescarboura From Easel to Cover . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 20--21 Gustav Lindenthal Some Aspects of Bridge Architecture . . 22--24 J. Bernard Walker From Trireme to Dreadnought . . . . . . 25--27 Anonymous A New Engine Fuel, Business as Usual While Moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27 Harry A. Mount Can the Airplane Be Made Safe? . . . . . 28--29 Anonymous The Dissymmetry of the Body and Its Striking Results, Prolonging the Life of Insects by Variable Temperatures . . . . 29--29 Robert G. Skerrett Grouping Our Power Plants . . . . . . . 30--31 Anonymous The New Marine Salvage System . . . . . 32--33 A. R. Surface Rolling Pure Nickel . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous Chemically Pure Nitrogen from the Air 34--34 Leon Augustus Hausman Fabrics Under the Microscope . . . . . . 35--37 J. S. Taylor Swimmer's Cramp --- its Causes and How they May be Avoided . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 J. F. Springer Making the Flood Dam Itself . . . . . . 38--39 Harold Hollingshead Some Simple Pointers on How to Keep a Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39 Anonymous The Radio Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41 Anonymous Electrostatic Adhesion Phenomenon and its Application to Radio . . . . . . . . 41--41 Geo. H. Dacy Why Not a Nation-Wide Building Code? . . 42--43 E. S. Van Brunt Lightening the Draftsman's Load . . . . 44--45 Anonymous Steel Direct from the Ore, A Gravity Spray System for Orchard . . . . . . . . 44--44 William T. Hornaday A Study in Offspring Herds . . . . . . . 46--47 Howard S. Leach Linotype Slugs and Catalogues . . . . . 47--47 Anonymous A Farmer's Loading Station . . . . . . . 47--47 Anonymous The French Suggest a 200-Mile Gun . . . 48--49 Anonymous The Power of a Modern Gun and of Thunder, Glycerine from Sugar . . . . . 49--49 Anonymous Tunnelling the Selkirks . . . . . . . . 50--51 Anonymous A Troublesome Problem in Stack-Wrecking, The Defectoscope and Elevator Accidents 51--51 Charles N. Winter Recording Locomotive Operation, The True Physiological Nature of Shock . . . . . 52--52 William Crowder The Truth About the Devil-Fish . . . . . 53--54 Anonymous Harvesting and Threshing in a Single Operation, Harvesting Without Reaping 54--54 M. A. Henry The Miner's Dump-Heap Goes to Work . . . 55--56 Anonymous Marking the Detours . . . . . . . . . . 56--56 Charles P. Steinmetz When More Voltage Means More Distance 59--59 Anonymous Applied Chemistry Notes . . . . . . . . 76--76
H. E. Howe Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 134--134 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December, 1921 . . . . . 136--136 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 138--141 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 142--145 Anonymous Book Review: Book Reviews . . . . . . . 148--148 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 149--149 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 150--150 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151 Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 153--153 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 157--157 Anonymous Index for the Weekly \booktitleScientific American Including October 15, 1921 Issue . . . . . . . . . 159--160 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Henry Fairfield Osborn Prehistoric Sculpture . . . . . . . . . 86--87 W. R. Whitney The Rôle of Research . . . . . . . . . . 88--89 Anonymous America's First Model Airway . . . . . . 89--89 Hector C. Bywater Britain's New Battle Cruisers . . . . . 90--90 Anonymous Railways of the World . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Roy A. Giles Science in Safe-Breaking . . . . . . . . 92--93 William A. Borden The 4000-Pound Demolition Bomb . . . . . 94--95 Anonymous Leading Armies of the World . . . . . . 96--97 Hector C. Bywater High-Speed Fighting Ships . . . . . . . 97--97 Anonymous The New Army Sixteen-Inch Gun . . . . . 98--98 Anonymous Seats for 125,000 . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Stainless Iron --- A New and Striking Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 100--101 Anonymous Abraham Lincoln and the Repeating Rifle 102--103 Pierre Boucheron News and Music from the Air . . . . . . 104--105 Anonymous The Mechanics of Ordnance Figures . . . 105--105 Charles Frederick Carter Our Reforestation Activities . . . . . . 106--107 George H. Dacy Phosphorus, the Backbone of Life . . . . 108--108 George H. Dacy Why Weary Metal Fails under Light Loads 109--110 Ladislas d'Orcy The Revival of the Monoplane . . . . . . 111--112 Anonymous Difference Between Molds and Wood Destroyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112 J. F. Springer The Mechanism of the Pipe Organ . . . . 113--116 Anonymous The Oil and Albumen Content of Seeds . . 116--116 H. W. Slauson Engineering in Truck Tire Building . . . 117--117 Anonymous Restoring Sight to Blind Animals . . . . 117--117 William A. Murrill The Banana and its Uses . . . . . . . . 118--119 J. Beyer Recent Studies of the Venomous Snakes 119--119 Anonymous Crossing San Francisco Bay by Bridge, Fill and Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121 Anonymous Fire Tests of Building Columns, Freak Boiler Explosion with a Man Inside . . . 121--121 William Crowder How Marine Worms Catch their Prey . . . 122--123 C. H. Claudy A Map's Other Name is Ananias . . . . . 124--125 Herbert Whitlock Rock Crystal Balls, Acetylene as Auto Motor Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125 Felix Eugene Averill A Wilderness Industry . . . . . . . . . 126--127 Anonymous Keeping Growing Potatoes Cool . . . . . 127--127 Anonymous The Story of Sugar . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130 Anonymous The Self-Supporting College . . . . . . 130--130 Anonymous Moss Scrubber for Irrigation Projects, How More Light Speeds up Vision, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131 Robert G. Skerrett A Climax in Concrete Construction . . . 132--133 Anonymous The Camera Turned Sculptor, Static and Gasoline Fires . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135 Marcus Benjamin Eliakim Hastings Moore, Zirconium, the ``Mystery Metal'' . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
H. E. Howe Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 28--28 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 30--31 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 32--32 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 36--36 Anonymous A Noble Presidential Precedent, How Fast do Birds Fly?, Important Patent Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18 Anonymous Electricity, Science, Aeronautics . . . 19--19 William A. McGarry A Giant Junk Yard . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20 S. R. Winters Making Satisfactory Glass from American Clays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21 Frank B. Howe A Radio Link in Our Telephone System . . 21--21 Anonymous Hydraulic Power Under a Mile-High Head 22--23 Charles Frederick Carter Science Coming into its Own . . . . . . 24--24 E. G. Allen Weapons at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25 Austin C. Lescarboura A Chat with Madame Curie . . . . . . . . 25--25 Jerome Lachenbruch Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27 J. Boyer Counting Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29 George Gaulois Daylight Projection of Opaque Subjects 29--29
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 50--50 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 51--52 Anonymous Books: New Books, Etc. . . . . . . . . . 56--56 Robert G. Skerrett Something New in Ferries . . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous The President's Great Opportunity, Tremendous, The State's Duty to Its Barge Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38 Anonymous Electricity, Science, Astronomy . . . . 39--39 R. Norris Shreve Putting Green Sand to Work . . . . . . . 40--40 C. D. Wagoner Our Latest Battleship, the ``Maryland'' 41--41 Harry A. Mount Something New in Salvaging Equipment . . 41--41 George H. Dacy How Much Air for the Tunnel? . . . . . . 42--42 Anonymous Drying Wood in the Orient, Helping the Automobile Out of Sand with Chicken Wire, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43 Harry A. Mount The Oil that Makes the Wheels Go 'Round 44--44 Frank Parker Stockbridge The Summer Sneezer . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45 J. F. Springer Clusters and Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . 46--46 C. M. Lewis Man-Made Precious Stones . . . . . . . . 48--49
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 69--69 Anonymous Aviation Fatalities, Sea Power in the Pacific, A Better Merchant Marine Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58 Anonymous Aeronautics, Science, Industrial Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59 George H. Dacy Pulling the Mississippi's Teeth . . . . 60--60 Anonymous The Temple Driver --- a Powder Gun which has no Recoil, Concussion or Flash . . . 61--61 Anonymous Molybdenum Steel in the Motor Car . . . 62--63 Raymond Francis Yates Succeeding in Architecture . . . . . . . 64--64 William Crowder What Makes the Glow-Worm Glow? . . . . . 65--65 Robert G. Skerrett Reporting the Life Story of Rails . . . 66--66 Anonymous From German Munition Boxes to Workmen's Houses, What is the Aurora Borealis?, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67 Anonymous Our Floating Hospital . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 86--86 Anonymous British Roadside Breakdowns . . . . . . 73--73 Anonymous On the Trail of News, Doing Instead of Talking, The Paradox of Civilization . . 74--74 Anonymous Electricity, Science, Engineering . . . 75--75 Harry A. Mount What are Vitamines? . . . . . . . . . . 76--76 George H. Dacy Learning the Truth About Arches . . . . 77--77 William Melas A Machine that Clears Away Land, New Varnish that Insulates . . . . . . . . . 77--77 M. A. Henry Home Building Simplified . . . . . . . . 78--79 R. A. F. George Whale Tomorrow's Airships . . . . . . . . . . 80--80 Henry Vendelmans Synthetic Agriculture . . . . . . . . . 81--81 Anonymous With Model Basin and Wind-Tunnel . . . . 82--83 J. F. Springer Transporting Electric Current . . . . . 84--84 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August, 1921 . . . . . . 100--100 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous Inventions: Recently Patented Inventions 104--104 Robert G. Skerrett The Radio Compass and Navigation, The Bombing Tests and our Naval Policy, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91 Anonymous Depth-Bombing from the Air . . . . . . . 92--93 William Alphonse Murrill Dead Men's Fingers . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95 C. H. Messerly Where Oil Occurs . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96 Frank Parker Stockbridge The Red Sea Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 William A. McGarry The Last Word in Power Houses, The World's Largest Watch, and more . . . . 98--99 Anonymous Towing the Wrecked Car, A One-Piece Welded Structural Frame, and more . . . 101--101 H. L. Wright Preparing Bamboos for the Market, Alcohol as Locomotive Fuel . . . . . . . 102--102 S. R. Winters Postage Stamps in the Making, Stars of Composite Spectra . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102 Anonymous Sodium Hypochlorite, Comparative Value of Timber Cut from Live and Dead Trees 108--108
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 122--122 Anonymous The Hudson River Pontoon Bridge, Inventing a Crime, and more . . . . . . 110--111 Charles Frederick Carter Railroading Under Roof . . . . . . . . . 112--112 M. Macartney Saving St. Paul's in London . . . . . . 113--113 George T. Holmes Clean Water for the Power Plant . . . . 113--113 Robert G. Skerrett Getting the Rest of the Oil . . . . . . 114--115 Robert G. Skerrett Starving in the Midst of Plenty . . . . 116--116 Anonymous Proposed Hudson River Pontoon Bridge . . 117--117 Anonymous The Captive Helicopter . . . . . . . . . 117--117 J. F. Springer Enemies of Timber Construction . . . . . 118--119 M. O. Goldsmith An Ancient Art in Modern Dress . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 136--136 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 138--138 Anonymous The Races in the United States . . . . . 125--127 Robert G. Skerrett Painting with Metal Spray . . . . . . . 128--128 Anonymous Self-Propelled Steel Barges for the State Barge Canal, A Few Facts and a Little Fancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129 S. R. Winters Housework in the Laboratory . . . . . . 130--130 Anonymous Simplifying the Coupling of Trains, Sucking the Cargo Out of a Ship . . . . 131--131 O. R. Geyer Winning Foreign Film Markets . . . . . . 132--132 Arthur H. J. Keane Soap Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133 Albert A. Hopkins Doing away with the Ice Man . . . . . . 134--135 Anonymous Starrett Combination Squares Graduated with Metric Measure Now Available, Improved Universal Bevel Protractor Added to Starrett Line . . . . . . . . . 137--137 Anonymous Cement for Leather Driving Belts . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 154--154 Anonymous Deep-Level Rapid Transit, Armaments Offset Reparations, and more . . . . . . 142--143 William McGarry Pennsylvania's Roads . . . . . . . . . . 144--144 C. W. Geiger The Caribou Power Plant . . . . . . . . 145--145 Wm. I. Wyman A Problem and its Attempted Solution . . 146--146 Arthur Lynch The Ubiquitous Radio . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 John Lathrop Twenty Miles a Day . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148 Samuel J. Record Japanese Veneer Paper . . . . . . . . . 149--149 George H. Dacy The Story of the Rail . . . . . . . . . 150--150 Anonymous Our Prehistoric Inhabitants, Old Peruvian Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151 Anonymous With the Engineers of Industry . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 20--21 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 56--56 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 59--59 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 61--64 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 65--65 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 66--70 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 71--71 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes: Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 76--76 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Robert G. Skerrett America's Domestic Food Supply . . . . . 6--7 Anonymous The Electric Field of the Atmosphere During Storms, Gear-Shift Innovations 7--7 Austin C. Lescarboura The Radio Central . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9 S. G. Roberts The Hydraulic Laboratory . . . . . . . . 10--11 Anonymous Stamp Frauds and their Detection . . . . 12--13 J. F. Springer Comets that have Lost their Tails . . . 14--15 Anonymous A Catapult and Turntable for Airplanes 16--16 Anonymous Vehicular Tunnel Ventilation . . . . . . 17--18 Anonymous The Hydraulic Jump . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Anonymous The Legal Adviser in Foreign Trade . . . 19--19 Anonymous From Steamer to Sailing Ship . . . . . . 22--22 Anonymous Standard Specifications for Large Incandescent Electric Lamps . . . . . . 22--22 Albert A. Hopkins With Eye-Piece and Camera . . . . . . . 23--24 Hector C. Bywater Naval Construction in Japan . . . . . . 25--26 Anonymous The Determination of Oxides of Nitrogen 26--26 M. Luckiesh Recent Advances in Lighting . . . . . . 27--27 Anonymous Government Railroad in Alaska Nearing Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29 Anonymous Track Laid on Cables while fill is being Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29 Albert A. Hopkins Noises for the Movies . . . . . . . . . 30--30 Anonymous Large Diesel Engines . . . . . . . . . . 30--31 Jacques Boyer Reading between the Lines . . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous Bottling and Labeling Machine for Small Scale Operations, Applying Electricity to the Metal-Melting Pot, and more . . . 33--33 T. Hart Anderson Design Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous The ``Quest,'' a Norwegian Sealing Ship which has been Refitted for Sir Ernest Shackleton's new Antarctic Expedition 35--35 Anonymous Recent Discovery in Greek Lands . . . . 36--37 Anonymous The Mount Everest Reconnaissance . . . . 37--37 Harry A. Mount A Garbage Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39 Anonymous New Timing Disk reduces a Day's work into a few Minutes, How Sensitive is Dynamite? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39 William J. Wilgus New York's Proposed Belt Railway . . . . 40--41 Anonymous Studying the Flight of Flies . . . . . . 41--41 George H. Dacy Lessening Lumber Losses . . . . . . . . 42--43 Anonymous Magnetic Testing of Wider Applicability 43--43 Frederic C. Carl The Latest in Steel Rails . . . . . . . 44--44 Anonymous Keeping Track of Surgical Operations, Hot High-Nitrogen Gas in a Metal Mine 45--45 William A. McGarry The Noiseless Elevated . . . . . . . . . 46--47 Anonymous Lumber of Steel, The Grunewald Automobile Race-Course . . . . . . . . . 47--48 E. J. Loring Bombing and Bombing Sights . . . . . . . 49--51 Anonymous How did the Ichthyosaurus Live? . . . . 52--52 Anonymous Intake, Compression, Power and Exhaust 53--54 Anonymous Trolley Snow Sweepers, Concrete Tower for Dam Construction . . . . . . . . . . 55--55 Anonymous Why Not Long-Distance Stenography? . . . 57--57 Anonymous Combining Motion Pictures with Clockwork 57--57 Hereward Carrington The Mechanism of the Psychic . . . . . . 60--60
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 98--99 H. E. Howe The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 129--129 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 131--131 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 132--135 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February, 1922 . . . . . 136--136 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 137--137 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 138--141 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 145--145 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 146--146 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 147--147 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 150--150 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Robert G. Skerrett America's Fuel Resources . . . . . . . . 86--87 Anonymous Bridging the Detroit River . . . . . . . 88--89 A. A. Hopkins The Latest African Anthropological Find 90--90 Ismar Ginsberg Artificial Cork . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Anonymous Wireless Telephone Progress . . . . . . 91--91 John A. Harriss Untangling Our Traffic Tangles . . . . . 92--93 Anonymous American Telephone Practice from a British Point of View . . . . . . . . . 93--93 William A. McGarry Overhauling the Human Mechanism . . . . 94--94 Anonymous A Ten-Year Naval Holiday . . . . . . . . 95--96 J. Malcolm Bird The Last Word in Illuminated Highways 97--97 Alfred Gradenwitz Where Human Speech is Put on the Dissecting Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100 Anonymous Greasing Electric Trolley Wires . . . . 100--100 Howard Mingos Airplane Racing and what it Means . . . 101--101 Anonymous New Process of Piloting Ships by Sound 101--101 James H. Collins How an Inventor Straightened Out a Labor Tangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103 D. M. Strickland Corrosion Investigations . . . . . . . . 104--104 Eric A. Dime The ``Rain-Drop'' Auto . . . . . . . . . 105--105 George H. Dacy Potash, An Essential for Plant Growth 106--107 Anonymous A Seaside Vineyard . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 George H. Dacy Better Use of Low-Grade Coal . . . . . . 108--108 Anonymous Germination of Light-Sensitive Seeds . . 108--109 Anonymous Container System in Operation on British Railways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109 A. H. Scott Building Better Homes . . . . . . . . . 110--111 Anonymous Lining a Creek with Concrete, Garage the Dwelling-Place While the House Goes Up 111--111 Leon Augustus Hausman Human Hair Under the Microscope . . . . 112--113 Fred Gilman Jopp A Second Pompeii . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114 Anonymous Quantum Theory of Color Vision . . . . . 114--114 Anonymous Measuring in Millionths . . . . . . . . 115--115 Anonymous The Peking--Suiyuan Railway of China . . 116--117 Alfred P. Dachnowski A Question in National Resources . . . . 118--118 Anonymous Rapid Transit in the Telegraph Office, A High-Speed Crankless Steam Engine . . . 119--119 Robert W. King The Voice with the Nation-Wide Audience 120--121 Anonymous The Utilization of Atomic Forces . . . . 121--121 D. H. Georgian How Jack Frost Stimulates Plant Growth 122--122 Anonymous Photographing Blood Stains, Magnetized Scale Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123 Frank B. Howe A New Use for Our Old Friend Hypo . . . 124--124 Harry A. Mount Sewage: The Price of Civilization . . . 125--126 Anonymous The Pneumatic Hub, Measuring Low Air Velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127 Anonymous The Bat Pest in Ceylon . . . . . . . . . 128--128 Anonymous Sand-Blasting Small Parts . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 164--165 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 201--202 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 203--206 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March, 1922 . . . . . . . 207--207 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 208--210 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 211--211 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 213--213 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 215--215 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 216--216 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155 Sherman M. Fairchild Winged Surveyors . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160 J. Malcolm Bird The 1922 Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--161 J. F. Springer Moving Niagara into Canada . . . . . . . 162--163 Austin C. Lescarboura Radio for Everybody . . . . . . . . . . 166--168 Robert G. Skerrett Research Settles the Problem of Tunnel Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170 E. Bade Artificial Plants in the Making . . . . 171--171 Harry A. Mount The Lincoln Highway of the Telephone . . 172--173 Anonymous Measuring the Growth of Trees . . . . . 173--173 Charles d'Emery The Yacht of a Viking Queen, The Effect of Exercise on Blood Constituents . . . 174--174 Anonymous A Recorder that Speaks, An X-Ray Outfit in a Hand-Satchel . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175 Anonymous The Mount Everest Reconnaissance . . . . 176--176 James B. Kelly The Physical Basis of Heredity . . . . . 177--178 Alfred Gradenwitz Quantity Production of Relief Maps . . . 178--178 Anonymous The Successful Cotton Picker, The Braille Typewriter for the Blind . . . . 179--179 Ralph Howard From Common Carp to Fanciest of Gold Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180 S. R. Winters and G. A. Orb Making Tea from Holly, Thistle Gardening in San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181 P. J. Risdon Roentgen-Ray Photography . . . . . . . . 182--182 Anonymous Salvaging Fuel from Boiler-Furnace Refuse, Electrical Operation of Suction Dredger, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183 R. E. Plimpton Freehand Drawing in the Industrial World 184--184 J. Bernard Walker Scrapping the Battleships . . . . . . . 185--188 Charles Alma Byers Spectacles for the Motion-Picture Camera 189--189 Anonymous The Organic Chemistry of Soils . . . . . 189--189 Anonymous Revising Street Intersections With the Aid of a Model, The Freight-Car Liner, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190 Anonymous More Comfort with Less Work . . . . . . 191--192 Anonymous Failures of Bronze and Iron Bell Clappers, How the Color of the Ground Affects Plant Growth . . . . . . . . . . 192--192 Anonymous To Put a Diamond to the Test, Musical Strings and where they Come from . . . . 193--193 F. Rowlinson A New Caterpillar Development . . . . . 194--195 Anonymous Caterpillar Ordnance . . . . . . . . . . 195--195 William B. Stout Duraluminum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196 August Kuhlmann Failure of St. Mary's Bascule Bridge . . 197--198 Paul J. Mallmann The Oppau Disaster: Facts and Conjectures as to its Cause . . . . . . 198--198 Anonymous Learning While Earning . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Anonymous Atomic Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Albert A. Hopkins The Human Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . 200--200 Anonymous The Vacuum-Bottle Milk-Car, The Cornerless Rock-Crusher . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 238--239 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 268--272 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 273--273 Ismar Ginsberg and Chemical Engineer Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 275--275 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1922 . . . . . . . 276--276 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 277--277 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 278--281 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 283--283 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 284--284 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 285--285 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 286--286 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287 Anonymous Wild Life Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--289 Anonymous Governmental Activities . . . . . . . . 290--290 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223 Anonymous How America's Male and Female Workers Earn their Daily Bread . . . . . . . . . 225--225 R. P. Crawford World Crops for America . . . . . . . . 226--227 Anonymous Thunderstorm-Breeding Spots and Engineering Design . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 The Staff Applying the Lessons of Industry to the Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--229 The Staff Articulated Trains . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231 Anonymous The Toronto Meeting, Air for the Miners 231--231 Pierre Boucheron At the Sending End of Radio . . . . . . 232--233 Hector C. Bywater The First, and Last, 18-Inch Naval Gun 234--234 Ladislas d'Orcy Soaring Birdmen . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237 Anonymous Biological Effects of the Tides . . . . 237--237 Anonymous Making Two Dirigible Sheds into One, Four-Footed Transatlantic Passengers . . 240--240 Andrew Goobeck A Pump-Power Railroad . . . . . . . . . 241--241 Raymond Francis Yates Will the Direct Current Era Return? . . 242--242 Albert A. Hopkins The Tomb of an Egyptian Queen . . . . . 243--244 H. C. Hardy Burning Up the Corn . . . . . . . . . . 244--244 Anonymous Magnetism in Human Beings, A Mechanical Sun and Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245 Robert G. Skerrett Curbing the Colorado . . . . . . . . . . 246--247 Anonymous Comfortable Houses Made of Straw . . . . 247--247 William Butterfield The Earliest Inhabitant . . . . . . . . 248--248 Anonymous The Latest in Speed Boats, The All-Steel Grade Crossing, and more . . . . . . . . 249--249 C. H. Claudy Why the Mail Plane? . . . . . . . . . . 250--251 Anonymous Populations and War . . . . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous Pouring Concrete Under Water . . . . . . 252--252 Anonymous Capacity Effects in Inductance Coils . . 252--252 S. R. Winters What and Why is a Contour? . . . . . . . 253--253 C. D. Mell The Peer of Decorative Hardwoods . . . . 254--254 Anonymous Petroleum Wastes and Savings . . . . . . 254--254 Anonymous Packing Perishable Foods in Inert Gas, Washing London Fog Out of the Atmosphere of a Motion Picture Studio . . . . . . . 255--255 Robert G. Skerrett A Ship Without a Bottom . . . . . . . . 256--257 Anonymous Lost in Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257 Charles Alma Byers Tons of Silver from Waste Hypo . . . . . 258--258 Anonymous A Drill for the Tree-Dentist, Auto-Bus Stability, and more . . . . . . . . . . 259--259 Anonymous Exactitude in Propeller Manufacture . . 260--261 J. Malcolm Bird A Steam Car that is Different . . . . . 262--263 Anonymous Evaporating Apparatus that Dispenses with Fuel, Automatic Traffic Regulation 263--263 C. H. Claudy Scientific Road Legislation . . . . . . 264--264 Harry A. Mount The Raw Materials for Artificial Daylight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266 Anonymous The Effect of Internal Secretions: Why We Are What We Are . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266 Anonymous U.S.S. ``Wright'' --- Our First Balloon --- and Airplane Carrier . . . . . . . . 267--267 Anonymous Sir Ernest Shackleton, German Scientific Books, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 306--307 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 339--342 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 343--343 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 345--345 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May, 1922 . . . . . . . . 346--346 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 347--351 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 353--353 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 354--354 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 355--355 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 356--356 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358 Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359 Anonymous Book Review: Book Reviews . . . . . . . 360--361 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295 Anonymous Where the Money Goes . . . . . . . . . . 297--297 George H. Dacy Taking the Riddles Out of Radio . . . . 298--299 Robert G. Skerrett Our Wasteful Industries . . . . . . . . 300--301 Ralph Howard Cutting and Fitting Beneath the Waves 302--303 Anonymous Piping Made of Paper as a Manufactured Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303 Anonymous Telephoning to Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305 S. G. Roberts The Industrial Production of Helium . . 308--309 R. P. Crawford Modern Miracles of Fishes . . . . . . . 310--311 Anonymous Tetralin, the New Motor Fuel . . . . . . 311--311 Anonymous Nelson's ``Victory'' Makes Her Last Voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312 James H. Collins Sugars of Great Price . . . . . . . . . 313--313 C. H. Claudy Automatic Train Control Made Obligatory 314--314 S. R. Winters Flood and Drought Control on the North Platte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315 Anonymous From Railroad to Highway . . . . . . . . 316--317 Anonymous The Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury, Where Road Wrecks Happen . . . . . . . . 317--317 Albert A. Hopkins The New World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318 Anonymous The Submarine Artist . . . . . . . . . . 319--319 Anonymous Moth-Proof Wool . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319 Anonymous Transmitting Power in Fluid Waves . . . 320--320 Anonymous America's Debt to the Howe Truss Timber Railway Bridge, Facts Concerning Molybdenum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321 Charles Frederick Carter Stoking the Employee . . . . . . . . . . 322--322 J. Malcolm Bird Our Subconscious Selves . . . . . . . . 323--324 Anonymous Cucumber-Flavored Water . . . . . . . . 324--324 Anonymous Cars that Carry their Own Turntable, the Cementing Qualities of the Calcium Aluminates, and more . . . . . . . . . . 325--325 Harry A. Mount Peace-Time Jobs for Poison Gas . . . . . 326--327 Anonymous A Warning Concerning the Peace-Time Use of Army Gas Masks . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Anonymous New York City's Staten Island Docks . . 328--329 Anonymous Waterproofing Fabrics by the Aid of Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329 Hereward Carrington The Ductless Glands . . . . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous A Menace to Fish Life . . . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous The Machine of all Work, Safer Handling of Acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331 Anonymous Freezing Fish for Future Food . . . . . 332--332 Anonymous Copper May Harm Illusive Vitamine . . . 332--332 Anonymous A Match That Lights Under Water, Portable Runway for Climbing the Curb, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333 Anonymous ``The Friendly Arctic'' . . . . . . . . 334--335 Anonymous Heat and Ventilation for the Cow Stable, Emergency Houses of Clay and Straw . . . 335--335 C. E. Kenneth Mees Darts of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336 Anonymous Speed as a Factor of Horsepower, Modern Stone Age Men, and more . . . . . . . . 337--337 Anonymous A Fifty-Knot Torpedo, Internal Diagonal Armor for Warships . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338 Anonymous Jobs for the Tractor Outside the Daily Routine, How the Stability of a Ship is Determined, and more . . . . . . . . . . 344--344
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 378--379 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June, 1922 . . . . . . . 409--409 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 411--414 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 415--415 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 416--416 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 417--420 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 421--422 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 425--426 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 426--430 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--430 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 431--432 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--438 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367 Anonymous The World's Wages --- a Statistical Anomaly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369 Anonymous The North Atlantic Ice Patrol . . . . . 370--371 S. Dushman Beyond the Microscope . . . . . . . . . 372--373 Anonymous New Studies of Caries in Teeth . . . . . 373--373 Anonymous By Rail and By Water . . . . . . . . . . 374--374 George H. Dacy Uncle Sam and Radio . . . . . . . . . . 375--375 Austin C. Lescarboura The Gentle Art of Radio Broadcasting . . 376--377 Anonymous Railway Motor Car of Special Design . . 380--380 H. D. Benton Forecasting Earthquakes . . . . . . . . 381--382 Anonymous Fast Cotton Dyeing . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382 Charles Alma Byers Utilizing all but the Squeal . . . . . . 383--384 S. R. Winters Every Lamp Socket a Radio-Phone . . . . 384--384 John T. Bramhall Stop! Look! Listen! . . . . . . . . . . 385--386 Anonymous Two-Cent Gasoline --- A Pitfall for the Unwary Investor . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386 Anonymous A Relief Map that Fills Two Acres, Moving a House of Glass, and more . . . 387--387 Roy A. Giles Planning Big Crimes . . . . . . . . . . 388--388 Anonymous Outdoor Auditoriums of Novel Design . . 389--389 Anonymous Diesel Engine Wins its Way . . . . . . . 390--390 Anonymous Windproof Plate Glass Windows . . . . . 391--391 Hector C. Bywater Reducing Dreadnoughts to Scrap Metal . . 392--393 Anonymous Salvarsan and Neosalvarsan . . . . . . . 393--393 L. J. Jellison Building a Road with a Dredge . . . . . 394--394 Anonymous The Light of the Night Sky . . . . . . . 394--394 William Crowder Why Did the Hermit-Crab Become a Hermit? 395--396 C. M. Lewis Ashes and Sawdust the Basis of a New Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397 Francis P. Mann Speeding up Radio . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397 Charles R. Ferrall Lumber from Sugar-Cane Waste . . . . . . 398--398 Anonymous The Comodoro Rivadavia Oil Fields . . . 398--398 F. A. Lucas and A. A. Hopkins Evolution in Museum Technique . . . . . 399--399 Anonymous The Formation of Spiral Nebulae . . . . 399--399 Anonymous The Problem of Mooring Airships . . . . 400--400 Anonymous The Relation Between Body Size and Organ Size of Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401 Alfred Gradenwitz Plants as Inventors . . . . . . . . . . 402--403 Anonymous Gravitational Absorption . . . . . . . . 403--403 Anonymous The Great Wall of China . . . . . . . . 404--405 Anonymous Vitamine Food Tablets . . . . . . . . . 405--405 Hereward Carrington When Tables Tip . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406 S. R. Winters Stretching the Five-Foot Shelf . . . . . 407--407 F. Frank The Treatment of Fuels by Direct Flame 408--408 Dean Ellery The Inside of the Question . . . . . . . 410--410 Anonymous The Age of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 45--48 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 49--49 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July, 1922 . . . . . . . 50--50 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 51--51 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 52--52 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 53--56 Anonymous Book Review: Book Reviews . . . . . . . 57--57 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 59--59 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 60--60 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 62--62 Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67 Anonymous Radio Notes: The Radio Guide . . . . . . 69--69 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous Unusual features of the world's largest ship, the ``Majestic'' . . . . . . . . . 5--5 Walter Franklin Prince The Psychic Detective . . . . . . . . . 6--7 Austin C. Lescarboura The Business of Broadcasting . . . . . . 8--9 Anonymous ``Majestic'' --- The Latest and Largest of Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11 Anonymous Determining the Penetration of Wood Preservatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11 S. G. Roberts Pullman and Caboose Radio . . . . . . . 12--13 Anonymous Department of Commerce Radio Periodical 13--13 Anonymous Gyro-Stabilizer as Cure for Seasickness, The Hottest Place in the World, and more 16--17 M. M. O'Shaughnessy San Francisco's Water Supply Project . . 18--19 Anonymous The Significance of Calcium for Higher Green Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19 George H. Dacy Radio Rules in the Making . . . . . . . 20--20 Anonymous The Statistics of Climate . . . . . . . 21--21 Leonard Matters An Antediluvian Monster . . . . . . . . 21--21 Robert G. Skerrett When the Hand on the Throttle Fails . . 22--22 Anonymous Wireless from Trains in Germany, Something New in Movie Scenery, and more 23--23 H. A. MacMullan Fulfilling the Treaty . . . . . . . . . 24--24 Anonymous What The Treaty Left Us . . . . . . . . 24--25 Anonymous Tamed Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26 Anonymous Belgium's Giant Radio Station, Reactions Obtained by Ultra-Violet Light . . . . . 27--27 William A. McGarry The Ice Cream Factory . . . . . . . . . 28--29 Anonymous Dr. Nimführ's Soaring Airplane, Sandy Ice Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29 Alfred Gradenwitz Investigating unknown Forces . . . . . . 30--30 George H. Dacy Earthquake Detection Near The White House, Some Physical Characteristics of the Ear, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31 P. J. Risdon When Steel Beams Stretch . . . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous Catching the Cinders, Measuring the Heat from the Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33 Anonymous The Counterfeit Presentment . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous The Airman's Weather-Finder, The Coloring Matter of Red Roses . . . . . . 35--35 Anonymous The Terminal Elevator for State Barge Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37 Anonymous Nutrient Requirements of Growing Chicks 37--37 Anonymous Stopping the Leaks . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38 Anonymous The Physiology of Grapefruit Ripening and Storage, A Clock that runs without Winding, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39 C. A. Oldroyd How Airship Accidents Lead to Airship Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41 Anonymous Conductivity and Permeability in Living Matter, Direct Prints without a Camera 41--41 Anonymous Wild Birds and Their Music . . . . . . . 42--42 Anonymous Proteins Differ in Their Nutritive Value as Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42 Anonymous The Naturalist's Corner . . . . . . . . 63--64 Anonymous Chemistry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 86--87 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 117--120 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 121--122 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 123--123 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August, 1922 . . . . . . 124--124 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 125--128 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 133--133 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 134--134 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 141--141 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75 Anonymous Where the Oil Goes . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Guy Elliot Mitchell Our Strenuous Geological Survey --- I 78--79 Anonymous New Literature for the Tourist, The Colloidal Theory of Rust . . . . . . . . 79--79 Herbert Hoover Policing the Ether . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80 Anonymous The Moss Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80 Robert G. Skerrett Fire at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82 Anonymous New Class of Dyes Permits Dyeing of Two Colors Simultaneously, New Bearing Metal of Unusual Properties . . . . . . . . . 82--82 John J. Pershing Our National Military Policy . . . . . . 83--83 Anonymous The Caribou Hydroelectric Plant . . . . 84--84 Anonymous Dreams of the Blind . . . . . . . . . . 84--84 George O. Squier The Unification of Communication Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Anonymous The World's Longest Bridge . . . . . . . 88--89 Anonymous Inside the Atom, Removing and Installing Large Turntables, and more . . . . . . . 89--89 C. de F. Chandler Submarine Telegraph Cables . . . . . . . 90--91 Anonymous Relativity in the Films . . . . . . . . 92--92 Anonymous A New Outdoor Wind Tunnel, An Electric Press for Scrap Metal . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Samuel W. Allender A New Era in Transportation . . . . . . 94--95 Anonymous Corrosion of Chrome Steels, From Iron Ore to Automobile in Ore Plant, and more 95--95 Alfred Gradenwitz Self-Steering Vessels . . . . . . . . . 96--96 Anonymous Permeability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96 Anonymous The Rolling Dump that Uses No Power, A New Job for the Jitney . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Edward C. Crossman The Development of Accurate Ammunition 98--99 W. R. Whitney Science --- A World Partnership . . . . 100--100 Anonymous Ore Deposits Revealed by Plants . . . . 100--100 C. W. Geiger The Eight-Wheel Bus, Unloading with the ``Tilting Truck'' . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101 S. G. Roberts After Ashokan --- What? . . . . . . . . 102--103 Anonymous Novel Uses for Ultra-Violet Light . . . 103--103 Charles W. Geiger The Superlative in Power Lines . . . . . 104--104 S. R. Winters New Method of Fusing Glass, Measuring 65 to 85,000 Meter Wave Lengths . . . . . . 105--105 Harry A. Mount Garbage in Working Clothes . . . . . . . 106--107 Anonymous The Nature of Soil Fertility . . . . . . 107--107 J. Bernard Walker Curbing the Mississippi . . . . . . . . 108--110 Anonymous Conquering the Dome of the World . . . . 110--110 Anonymous Sand Fence of Old Cross-Ties, Germany's Forthcoming Skyscrapers, and more . . . 111--111 Anonymous Psychology as a Business . . . . . . . . 112--113 P. J. Risdon Fighting a Mud Run . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113 Anonymous Stonehenge --- The Enigma of Salisbury Plain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115 James Black Do Tables Tip? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116 Anonymous The Bounce-Power Bicycle, Finding Practical Work for Low- Grade Ores, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122 Anonymous The Radio Patents Situation . . . . . . 136--137 Anonymous Chemistry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 158--159 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 189--192 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 193--193 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September, 1922 . . . . . 194--194 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 195--198 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 199--199 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 201--201 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 202--202 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 203--203 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 209--209 Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Anonymous Across America in Eight Hours . . . . . 149--149 Frank M. Leavitt Skilled Hands, or Automatic Machinery? 150--151 William H. Waggaman Dollars from Debris . . . . . . . . . . 152--153 P. J. Risdon The St. Gothard Electrification . . . . 154--155 Anonymous A British Device for Locking Open Water-Tight Doors, Superheated Steam Causes Failure of Cast Iron . . . . . . 155--155 Littell McClung The Seventy-Five Mile City . . . . . . . 156--157 Anonymous Armstrong's Super-Regenerative Receiver, A Helicopter that Flies --- The Berliner Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160 Anonymous A Pump that Converts any Automobile into a Fire Engine, Adapting the Double-Barrel Idea to Naval Gunnery . . 161--161 James Black Ectoplasm and Ectoplasm Fakers . . . . . 162--162 Anonymous The Limit of Size for American Schooners, The Gasoline Rail Coach . . . 163--163 Albert D. Lasker The Ship Subsidy Bill . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Guy Elliot Mitchell Our Strenuous Geological Survey --- II 165--166 Anonymous Industrial Management, Mercury Poisoning, and more . . . . . . . . . . 166--166 George H. Dacy A Huge Coast-Defense Range-Finder, Taking the Error Out of Airplane Wings 167--167 Anonymous Liglits as Aid to Aerial Navigation . . 168--168 John Edwin Hogg Taking Aeronautical Photographs from the Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169 William Crowder Down Through the Ages . . . . . . . . . 170--171 Anonymous Transparent Rubber . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171 Charles W. Geiger California's Test Highway . . . . . . . 172--172 Anonymous Ships Within Ships: A New System of Barge Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173 S. G. Roberts An Automatic Hand on the Throttle . . . 174--175 Anonymous Concrete-and-Steel Stadium Construction in France, The Window-Cleaning Carriage 175--175 Delbert E. Davenport Castles of Plaster and Steel . . . . . . 176--177 Anonymous Explosion Chambers as Defense Against Torpedoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177 L. Staekell The Sea as a Safe Deposit Vault . . . . 178--179 Anonymous Physical Energy and Biology, A l00-Car Train on the Horseshoe Curve . . . . . . 179--179 P. J. Risdon The Sydney Harbor Bridge . . . . . . . . 180--181 Wyman Smith The Missing Link in Seaboard Sanitation 182--182 Anonymous Legendary Islands of the Atlantic . . . 183--183 Ivan C. Waterbury Electrically Harnessing the Winds . . . 184--185 Anonymous Solar Cooking with the Aid of Oil . . . 185--185 Robert G. Skerrett Eliminating Three Miles of Grade Crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187 Anonymous Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance of 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187 E. Bade Crystals that Live, Safeguarding Live Fish in Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188 Anonymous Chemistry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204 Anonymous The Naturalist's Corner . . . . . . . . 205--205 Anonymous Government Activities . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 261--264 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 265--266 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 267--267 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October, 1922 . . . . . . 268--268 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 269--269 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 275--276 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 277--277 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 278--278 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280 Anonymous Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219 Anonymous Where Necessity Was the Mother of Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221 Edward H. Smith Safes and Safe-Breakers --- I . . . . . 222--223 James Black The Spirit-Photograph Fraud . . . . . . 224--225 Anonymous Building a Bridge Within a Bridge . . . 226--228 Anonymous Colloidal Metals That Cure Human Ills, Ammonia Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228 William H. Easton Railroad Electrification in Chile . . . 229--229 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 230--231 Anonymous Bell and His Telephone . . . . . . . . . 232--232 Anonymous Hypnosis and Surgery . . . . . . . . . . 232--232 Anonymous Taking the Roughness Out of Our Roads 233--233 Robert G. Skerrett The ``Lusitania'' and the Submarine Salvor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235 S. G. Roberts New Orleans' Big Port Improvement . . . 236--236 Hector C. Bywater The Parsons Steam Turbine . . . . . . . 237--239 Anonymous Iron and Steel in Brazil . . . . . . . . 239--239 W. van B. Roberts What Is Cold Light? . . . . . . . . . . 240--240 Anonymous New Tasks for the Weatherman . . . . . . 240--240 Anonymous A Candidate for the British--American Cup Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241 Charles W. Burrows The Electro-Magnet at the Throttle . . . 242--242 Anonymous The Automatic Collision-Dodger, A Successful Marl Pump, and more . . . . . 243--243 Guy Elliot Mitchell Our Strenuous Geological Survey --- III 244--245 Anonymous Sewer Pipe Investigation . . . . . . . . 245--245 Anonymous The Golden Age of Peru . . . . . . . . . 246--246 Anonymous Cannon-Ball Tests of Concrete, The Age of Insects, and more . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Arthur La Motte The Thunderbolts of Peace . . . . . . . 248--249 C. C. Vogt Chemistry and Preventive Dentistry . . . 250--250 Ismar Ginsberg Colloids and Your Health . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Harvesting Sugar Cane by Machine, Making the Use of Gas in the Home, Safe . . . . 251--251 Anonymous The Twenty-Hour Week . . . . . . . . . . 252--253 William H. Cole The Green Japanese Beetle . . . . . . . 254--254 Anonymous Speeding Up the Auto-Tag Industry, Symbiosis in the Forest, and more . . . 255--255 Leon Augustus Hausman The Microscopy of Foods . . . . . . . . 256--257 Anonymous Production of Rust by Carbonic Acid . . 257--257 M. Luckiesh The Ultraviolet in Sunlight . . . . . . 258--258 Anonymous Practical Uses for the Spectroscope, Secret Radio Communication . . . . . . . 259--259 Anonymous Making Wool Moth-Proof . . . . . . . . . 260--260 Anonymous Hearing Through a Walking Stick . . . . 266--266 Anonymous Information Leaflet Issued By Patent Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 306--307 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 335--338 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 339--339 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 341--341 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November, 1922 . . . . . 342--342 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 343--348 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 356--357 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 358--358 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295 Anonymous International Fisherman's Deep-Sea Race 297--297 Anonymous Gliders and Gliding . . . . . . . . . . 298--299 Edward H. Smith Safes and Safe-Breakers --- II . . . . . 300--301 J. Malcolm Bird To Keep the Home Fires Burning . . . . . 302--303 Frederick Harrison Burlingham A Cable-Way Among the Clouds . . . . . . 304--304 Anonymous Wood-Wasps Which Gnaw Through Leaden Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305 Anonymous Keeping Irrigation Ditches Clear . . . . 305--305 Francis P. Mann From the Bourse to Wall Street . . . . . 308--309 Anonymous Measuring the Load on Locomotive Wheels, Electric Tire-Heating Apparatus . . . . 310--310 S. W. Clatworthy Direct-Drive Diesel Locomotive of Novel Design Proposed by a British Engineer 311--311 Anonymous When Gears and Levers Replace the Cigar Maker's Adept Fingers . . . . . . . . . 312--312 Henry Woodward Hulbert Irrigation and Water-Power in Palestine 313--313 Benno Lowy Conserving Crops by Fumigation . . . . . 313--313 James H. Collins A Big Job in Fine Dimensions . . . . . . 314--315 Anonymous The Musical Typewriter --- A Device for Transposing and Recording Music . . . . 315--315 F. Rowlinson When Optical Illusions Aid the Engineer 316--316 Anonymous Taking Bossie's Nose-Print, The Benefits of Research in Agriculture, and more . . 317--317 C. C. Williams Post-War Artillery . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319 C. H. Claudy Motion Pictures by Radio . . . . . . . . 320--321 H. G. Murray Our Chinese Customers . . . . . . . . . 322--323 Anonymous When Tracks Tell their Troubles . . . . 324--324 Anonymous Putting Glassware Through the Testing-Mill, Applications of the Thermionic Valve, and more . . . . . . . 325--325 Donald A. Laird Hypnotism --- Fact or Fake? . . . . . . 326--326 Anonymous Steam Baths Among the California Indians, A Possible Reconciliation of the Atomic Models of Bohr and of Lewis and Langmuir, and more . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Anonymous Individual Atmospheres Made to Order . . 328--329 Anonymous Beating Lightning at its Own Favorite Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329 Hemstead Castle The Catapult of the Fern . . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous The Tides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous Eliminating Static by Means of the Resonance Coil, Handling the Parachute on the Ground, and more . . . . . . . . 331--331 Guy Elliot Mitchell Our Strenuous Geological Survey --- IV 332--333 Robert S. Ridgway The Size of a Molecule, Testing the Drag of Farming Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 334--334 Anonymous Reversing the Order of Threshing, Beet-Top Silage in the Ground, and more 340--340
Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 413--416 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 417--417 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December, 1922 . . . . . 418--418 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 419--419 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 420--426 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 430--430 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 434--435 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--436 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 437--437 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--438 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 439--439 Anonymous Index To Volume 127 . . . . . . . . . . 447--448 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371 Anonymous The Largest Cruising Airdrome . . . . . 373--373 Edward H. Smith Inventor vs. Forger --- I . . . . . . . 374--375 Harold Cary Are You a Musician? . . . . . . . . . . 376--377 Anonymous About the Radio Round-Table . . . . . . 378--379 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 380--381 D. H. George What Is There Left To Do? . . . . . . . 382--383 Archibald Black The Pulitzer Trophy . . . . . . . . . . 384--384 Anonymous A Super-Locomotive With the Latest Improvements, Bud Mutations . . . . . . 385--385 Anonymous Finger-Prints Via Radio . . . . . . . . 386--386 Anonymous Painting a Wire Fence Without Waste of Paint, Radiators for Aircraft Engines, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387 J. Malcolm Bird A Square Deal for the Psychics . . . . . 388--389 George H. Dacy Lighting the Mississippi . . . . . . . . 390--390 Anonymous Sleeve-Valve Engines for Motorcycles, Cleaning Wheat at the Thrashing Machine 391--391 Anonymous Flood Control at Kansas City . . . . . . 392--392 Anonymous Life-Belts and Near-Life-Belts --- A Study of Government Regulation and an Invention, A Police Baton Furnished with a Flashlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393 Emanuel Scheyer When Perforated Paper Goes to Work . . . 394--395 Anonymous The Rigid Track-Layer . . . . . . . . . 395--395 Lloyd E. Jackson The Dry-Cleaning and Dyeing Industry . . 396--396 Anonymous Large Portable Water Tanks, The Air-Cooling of 1923, and more . . . . . 397--397 George H. Dacy Millions in Food from Federal Free Seed 398--399 Ray M. Hudson The New Conservation --- I . . . . . . . 400--400 Anonymous Gear-Testing Machines, Keeping Springs Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401 Anonymous America's Busiest Radio Station . . . . 402--402 Anonymous A Novel Method of Pumping Water, Recent Developments in British Pelton Wheel Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403 Francis P. Mann Forgery or Genuine? . . . . . . . . . . 404--404 Anonymous Harvesting Sugar-Beet Seed in Sleds, Iron Ore in Europe, and more . . . . . . 405--405 Anders Bull Fog Signaling by Polarized Sound . . . . 406--407 Anonymous Taking Away from a Picture to Get a Larger Picture, The Muscle as a Motor 407--407 Anonymous Blasting a Channel Through a River's Rocky Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409 Anonymous Radio Direction-Finding in Flying Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409 Leon Augustus Hausman Virgin Wool and Shoddy . . . . . . . . . 410--411 Anonymous Treasures from Cinders . . . . . . . . . 411--411 Marcus Benjamin James Playfair McMurrick, Temperatures in the United States, and more . . . . . 412--412 Anonymous The Naturalist's Corner . . . . . . . . 432--432 Anonymous Chemistry Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--442
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--13 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 43--46 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 47--47 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 49--49 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January, 1923 . . . . . . 50--50 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 51--55 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 56--56 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 62--62 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 63--63 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 64--64 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous Motion Pictures in Three Dimensions . . 5--5 J. Malcolm Bird and for the Scientific American and the Committee Our Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 6--7 Edward H. Smith Inventor vs. Forger --- II . . . . . . . 8--9 Anonymous The President's Plea for a Merchant Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10 Anonymous Rapid Transit on a Moving Belt . . . . . 10--11 Harry A. Mount Fuel by the Ton or the Gallon? . . . . . 14--15 William A. Mulcahy Two Bridges in One --- Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge . . . . . . . . . 16--16 Alfred Gradenwitz Doing Two Things at Once . . . . . . . . 17--17 Anonymous The Sense of Smell in Birds . . . . . . 17--17 Anonymous An All-Steel Grandstand, Death from snake-Bites, and more . . . . . . . . . 18--18 Anonymous Pictures that Talk . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19 Crede Haskins Calhoun Panama Canal Tolls . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20 Charles Sheard Research and Spectacles . . . . . . . . 21--21 Anonymous Novel Means of Testing Levers . . . . . 21--21 Jerome Lachenbruch The Fight to Conquer Old Age . . . . . . 22--22 Ismar Ginsberg Apparent Death and Resuscitation . . . . 22--23 Anonymous Our Aladdin's Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24 Anonymous A Gear With Only One Tooth, Escape from the Garbage Can, and more . . . . . . . 25--25 Anonymous Leaves from the Archaeologist's Note-Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27 Anonymous Summer Foods in the Winter Time, The Ascent of Sap in Trees . . . . . . . . . 27--27 Ray M. Hudson The New Conservation --- II . . . . . . 28--28 Gilbert I. Stodola and Alfred Gradenwitz On the Trail of the Taxi Driver, The Flickerless Projector . . . . . . . . . 29--29 Anonymous Making the Mississippi Rebuild its Banks 30--31 Anonymous When Alaska Forest Rangers Travel by Motor Boat, The Life-Cycles of Bacteria, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31 C. H. Claudy Airplanes in the Public Consciousness 32--32 E. M. Stevenson A New Principle in Plowing and Road Surfacing and Ice Surfacing, Soil Acidity Preferences of Some Eastern Conifers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33 E. Bade Between Two Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous A Garden Telescope for the Amateur Astronomer, The Pocket Barometer-Altimeter, and more . . . . . 35--35 Anonymous The Story of Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37 Anonymous A Practical Contact Attachment, New Neon Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous Bridge Construction With Floating Steel Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38 Anonymous Sideways Launching Made Safer and Surer, Centrifugal Car-wheels with Manganese-Steel Rims, and more . . . . . 39--39 Leonard Matters A Builder's Paradise . . . . . . . . . . 40--40 Anonymous Removing Spots from Leather by Means of Rubber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40 L. Pyle Tricks of Over-Exposure, New Method for Revising Copper Map Plates . . . . . . . 41--41 Anonymous Building a Railroad in the Frozen North 42--42 Charles Evan Fowler Our Startling Automobile Traffic, Keeping the Gasoline Out of the Crankcase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48 J. Malcolm Bird Relativity --- And Other Things . . . . 58--58 Anonymous Radio on the Screen --- A Review of the \booktitleScientific American Film . . . 59--59
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 86--87 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 115--118 Ismar Ginsberg and Chemical Engineer Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 119--119 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 121--121 Hennry Norris. Russell The Heavens in February, 1923 . . . . . 122--122 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 123--129 Anonymous Science Notes: Science notes . . . . . . 129--132 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 132--134 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 134--134 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 135--135 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137 Anonymous Archeology: Archaeological Notes . . . . 137--138 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75 Anonymous The Coal Ration . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Henry Norris Russell The Census of the Stars . . . . . . . . 78--79 Samuel J. Record When We Build Our House . . . . . . . . 80--81 Anonymous The Extermination of Insects . . . . . . 81--81 George H. Dacy When Will Automobiles be Perfect? . . . 82--82 Ismar Ginsberg The Chemical Go-Between . . . . . . . . 82--82 Anonymous Airships and Motherships of the Future 83--83 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 84--84 V. M. Whiting The New Home of the National Academy of Sciences, Seeing to Taste . . . . . . . 85--85 E. Bade The Heart and the Heartbeat of the Plant 88--89 Anonymous Most Powerful Reciprocating Steam Engine Ever Built . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89 Anonymous An Amphibious Military Tank, The Perpetual Calendar, and more . . . . . . 90--90 Anonymous A Turbine Locomotive Which Saves Half the Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Anonymous Doubling New York's Water Supply . . . . 92--92 Anonymous Lightning's Pranks, Assembling an Aerial Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Harry A. Mount Getting Along With the Boll Weevil . . . 94--95 Anonymous Musical Broadcasting Experiments . . . . 95--95 F. C. Allen, Jr. Taking the Menace Out of Dust . . . . . 96--96 E. Bade Making Big Photographs of Little Things 97--97 Ray M. Hudson The New Conservation --- III . . . . . . 98--98 Anonymous Completion of a Notable Concrete Viaduct, Moving a Town by Motor Truck 99--99 J. F. Springer A Mechanical Solution of a Literary Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100 S. R. Winters Vivisection and Animal Industry . . . . 101--101 Ismar Ginsberg Finding Uses for Raw Rubber . . . . . . 101--101 Charles Henry Dorr Fishing for Pearls . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103 Leonard Matters Railroad Building in the Andes . . . . . 104--105 Anonymous Wearing Red and Green Spectacles to See Stereoscopic ``Movies'', Testing Kiln Circulation With Chemical Smoke . . . . 105--105 Anonymous Long-Distance Telephone Problems . . . . 106--108 J. Bernard Walker The World's Largest Vehicular Tunnel . . 108--109 George E. Beggs From Paper Model to Concrete Arch . . . 110--110 Anonymous What Life Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110 Anonymous How Electricity Causes Death . . . . . . 111--111 Anonymous A Safer Way of Bleaching Foods . . . . . 111--111 Anonymous Tungsten' at Extreme Temperatures . . . 111--112 F. Rowlinson Fighting the Friction Fiend . . . . . . 112--113 John K. Cochran Construction of a Steam-Turbine Wheel 113--113 Anonymous Power from a Whip, Cleansing New York Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114 Anonymous Storage Batteries that are Out of the Ordinary, Radio-Frequency Amplifiers . . 120--120 Anonymous Automobile Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--146
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 156--157 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 187--190 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 191--191 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 193--193 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March, 1923 . . . . . . . 194--194 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 195--198 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 208--208 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 209--209 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 210--210 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Anonymous Where the Workman's Wages Go . . . . . . 149--149 Albert A. Hopkins Digging Back Three Thousand Years . . . 150--152 Francis P. Mann Gasoline Camels . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153 Anonymous Six Stages in One . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 Harold Cary More House for Less Money . . . . . . . 158--159 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 160--160 Anonymous Skimming Fuel Oil from Harbor Surface, Optical Specifications for Glass for Balloon Hangars, and more . . . . . . . 161--161 Anonymous The March of Science for 1922 . . . . . 162--162 Anonymous Emissivity of Roofing Materials . . . . 162--162 Anonymous A Steel-Ribbed House for the Deep-Sea Diver, The Mechanical Pitcher . . . . . 163--163 Hector C. Bywater Are Huge Aircraft Carriers Worth While? 164--164 Anonymous Nicotine in Your Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Anonymous Cleaning Railroad Track With a Power-Driven Sweeper, Root Respiration, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165 R. P. Crawford The Mysteries of the Modern Organ . . . 166--167 Anonymous When Electricity Magnifies the Speaker's Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167 John Lathrop Highway Traffic Despatching . . . . . . 168--168 Anonymous Microbes and Weather . . . . . . . . . . 169--169 Anonymous The Ostwald Color Atlas . . . . . . . . 169--169 Harry A. Mount Our Smallest Toilers . . . . . . . . . . 170--171 Anonymous Mind as the Coping-Stone, Architectural Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171 Oliver S. Arata Water to Drink . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172 Allen P. Child and George H. Dacy Shadow-Testing of Gear Teeth, The Radio Typewriter for Airplanes . . . . . . . . 173--173 George Illington New Foods for Old . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175 Charles Frederick Carter Ventilating a Vehicular Tunnel . . . . . 176--177 Anonymous The Biggest Shovel, Electric Conductivity and Bio-Physical Energy . . 177--177 Anonymous From Horse-Driven Ferry to Steel Bridge 178--178 Anonymous Spectrophotoelectrical Sensitivity of Bournonite and Pyrargyrite . . . . . . . 178--178 Anonymous From Battleship to Floating Crane, Night Lights without Insects, and more . . . . 179--179 Anonymous New Method of Salvage by Compressed Air 180--181 Anonymous Canned Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182 A. Gradenwitz How Iron Rust Grows, Problems Relating to Saggars, and more . . . . . . . . . . 183--183 Ismar Ginsburg When We Paint Our House . . . . . . . . 184--184 J. F. Springer Digging from Below, Up . . . . . . . . . 185--186 Anonymous Measuring the Tractor's Performance, Moving a Church of 3200 Tons . . . . . . 186--186 N. H. Heck Where the Compass Fails to Guide, Measuring Water Flow With a Camera . . . 192--192
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 228--229 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 259--262 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 263--263 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 265--265 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1923 . . . . . . . 266--266 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 267--270 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 275--276 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278 Anonymous Exploration Notes: Travel and Exploration Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279 Anonymous Archeology: Archaeological Notes . . . . 280--281 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 282--282 Anonymous Aeronautical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--284 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219 Ernst Foerster Big and Fast Liners of the Future . . . 221--223 Anonymous Atoms: Their Size and Number . . . . . . 223--223 Anonymous Sand-Blasting the Clouds for Man-Made Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224 Anonymous A New Version of the Revolving Stage Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225 Roy A. Giles Bombs and Bomb Plots . . . . . . . . . . 226--227 Albert A. Hopkins Pompeii Uncovered . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231 S. G. Roberts Tiny Air Bubbles and Giant Dams . . . . 232--232 Anonymous Curious Concrete Bridge Tests, A Rush Job in Dam Construction . . . . . . . . 233--233 A. Gradenwitz Current Psychic Investigation in Europe 234--234 Anonymous Our Giant ZR-1 in the Making . . . . . . 235--235 Anonymous A Reservoir with Cathedral Architecture, An Electron Tube Amplifier Using A.C. Current for Filaments and Plates . . . . 236--236 Anonymous Floating a Bridge Into Place Section by Section, Effects of Local Conditions on Radio Direction-Finding, and more . . . 237--237 Guy Elliot Mitchell Gasoline from Natural Gas . . . . . . . 238--238 Anonymous The Physiology of Sweating, Food for Brain Workers, and more . . . . . . . . 239--239 Ivan E. Houk Taking the Kinks Out of Our Rivers . . . 240--241 John Liston Twelve Months of Radio . . . . . . . . . 242--242 Anonymous Our Army's Helicopter, Variable Surface Wings for Variable Speed Airplanes, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243 P. J. Risdon Irrigation in Australia . . . . . . . . 244--245 Robert G. Skerrett A Key to Many Industries . . . . . . . . 246--247 S. F. Aaron The Minstrel Frogs . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248 Anonymous Powerful Wrecking Derrick for the Virginian Railway, The Sources and Characteristics of the Bacteria in Decomposing Salmon, and more . . . . . . 249--249 Hector C. Bywater Where British Patents Come From . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Powerful Steam Fire and Salvage Boat, Another Walking Tractor . . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous Fulfilling the Washington Naval Treaty 252--253 Charles W. Geiger Harnessing California's Waters . . . . . 254--254 H. V. Hilker Concerning the Age of the Earth . . . . 256--257 Anonymous Something New in Tubes: The Donle Non-Interfering Detector, A Microphonic Amplifier for Crystal Detector Sets . . 258--258 J. W. Harsch Short-Time Tests for Long-Time Endurance 264--264
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 300--301 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 331--334 Ismar Ginsberg and Chemical Engineer The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 335--335 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May, 1923 . . . . . . . . 336--336 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 337--337 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 338--340 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 350--350 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291 Anonymous Our Transportation Industry . . . . . . 293--293 Edward H. Smith The Burglar and the Alarm . . . . . . . 294--295 T. George Allen Tutenkhamon's Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296 Littell McClung Taking Nitrogen from the Air . . . . . . 298--299 Anonymous Extinct Races of Ape-Like Man . . . . . 302--303 Anonymous The Washington Conference Battleship . . 304--304 Anonymous What One Thousand Horsepower Means in Power Producers on Land and on Water and in the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305 Anonymous A Man-Made Amphibian, New Type of Timber Joint-Plate, and more . . . . . . . . . 306--306 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation in Europe --- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308 Anonymous The Georgetown Bridge Over the Potomac, Jacking Out the Stumps . . . . . . . . . 309--309 Anonymous Islands in the Making . . . . . . . . . 310--310 Anonymous Better Lungs for Miners, The Milk-Container Car . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311 L. Lodian Foreign Foods in American Cities . . . . 312--313 P. J. Risdon When the Camera Turns Sculptor . . . . . 314--314 Anonymous Sectional Safes of Concrete and Iron, Phosphorescent Light of Fireflies, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315 Arthur L. Dahl Feeding the Soils . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316 Anonymous Making the Airplane Radiator and Wing in One, Equipping the Soaring Plane with a Small Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317 Samuel J. Record An Old Friend in New Dress . . . . . . . 318--319 Anonymous Big-Wheel Log Hauling, Jacking Out the Stumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319 S. R. Winters Why Grade Crossing Accidents? . . . . . 320--320 Anonymous Carbon Formation in Engine Cylinders . . 320--320 Anonymous The Los Angeles Coliseum --- One of the World's Greatest Structures, Athletics and Oxygen Supply, and more . . . . . . 321--321 Anonymous The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes . . . 322--322 Alexander Klemin The Handwriting on the Sky --- the Most Recent and Compelling Method of Advertising, The Transport of Organic Substances in Plants, and more . . . . . 323--323 Anonymous Hudson River Bridge at Bear Mountain . . 324--325 Anonymous A High-Pressure Tank to Cure the Ill Effects of Pressure, A Novel Surgical Tool, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326 D. H. George From Battlefield to Road Jobs . . . . . 327--327 George H. Dacy Mapping from the Skies . . . . . . . . . 328--329 Anonymous Convenience of Bridge and Tunnels Compared, Sounding by Sound . . . . . . 330--330
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 374--375 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 401--404 Ismar Ginsberg and Chemical Engineer The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 405--405 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June, 1923 . . . . . . . 406--406 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 407--407 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 408--413 Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--416 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 416--416 Anonymous Exploration Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 418--418 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 419--419 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--421 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--423 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363 John T. Rowland Hudson's Bay, the ``Neglected Sea'' . . 365--365 Edward H. Smith Your Automobile and the Thief . . . . . 366--367 Guy E. Mitchell Platinum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369 Ismar Ginsberg Alcohol and the Bootlegger . . . . . . . 370--370 Anonymous Electrical Statistics at a Glance . . . 371--371 A. G. Ingalls Tearing Down to Build Again . . . . . . 372--373 Anonymous The Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376 Anonymous An Electric Speedometer . . . . . . . . 377--377 Anonymous Curious Feat of House Moving, Transmission of Standard Radio Wave Length Signals, and more . . . . . . . . 378--378 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation in Europe --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380 Anonymous Stretching the Gasoline Supply, Gasoline and Alcohol as Fuels of the Future, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381 S. F. Aaron Master Builders Called Insects . . . . . 382--382 Anonymous Pilgrims in Make-Believe Land . . . . . 383--383 E. Bade Budding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384 Anonymous Combining High Voltage with Compactness in Storage Battery Construction, Using Wood Waste to Halt Decay, and more . . . 385--385 Milfeurn Moore Speeding Up Track Work . . . . . . . . . 386--386 Anonymous Timing an Ice Sheet, Taking the ``if'' Out of construction . . . . . . . . . . 387--387 Anonymous The All-Devouring Marine Borer . . . . . 388--389 Anonymous Cheaper and Better Houses, Electron Tube Detector Unit for Radio Reception . . . 389--389 Alber Neuberger Peaceful Conquest . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390 Anonymous Gothenburg Jubilee Exposition, The Meaning of Grade A, Grade B or Grade C with Reference to Milk, and more . . . . 391--391 Harry A. Mount Getting Our Money's Worth in Fertilizer 392--393 Anonymous A Home-Made Distributor for Fertilizer, Planting an Acre and a Half an Hour . . 393--393 O. Van Wyck, Jr. Landscapes With a Jigsaw . . . . . . . . 394--394 Anonymous A Precise Torch Cutting Machine, Publications on Building and Housing, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395 Anonymous A Record Job of Pile Driving . . . . . . 396--397 Alfred McEwen Writing for the Microscopic Eye . . . . 398--398 Anonymous Erecting an Arch Bridge by Means of the Suspension Bridge Which it Supplants, Cocaine and Cocoa, and more . . . . . . 399--399 Anonymous The Aerial Lighthouse, Growth of World's Merchant Shipping and more . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--13 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 43--46 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 47--47 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July, 1923 . . . . . . . 48--48 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 49--49 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 50--54 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 55--55 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 61--61 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 62--62 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 63--63 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous Ocean travel by combined steamship and airplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5 Edward H. Smith Trapping the Burglar . . . . . . . . . . 6--7 Littell McClung Building the World's Largest Monolith 8--9 Anonymous World Metric Standardization, Ro, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Ralph Howard Uncle Sam's Agricultural Proving Grounds 10--11 J. Malcolm Bird Our First Test Seances . . . . . . . . . 14--14 Anonymous Three Notable Locomotives Which Mark the Trend of Railroading . . . . . . . . . . 15--15 Anonymous Are Most Animals Color Blind? . . . . . 16--17 S. W. Clatworthy Acrobatic Coal Barges . . . . . . . . . 17--18 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation in Europe --- III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20 Anonymous Mathematically Perfect Balls of Lead Called Shot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21 George H. Dacy Where Corn is King . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23 Anonymous The Fourth Dimension, A New Vitamin Bread, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23 Anonymous When a Bridge Tells its Troubles . . . . 24--24 Anonymous Intensity and Duration of Fire . . . . . 24--24 Anonymous A New Gasoline-Electric Freight Train, Another Cotton Picker, and more . . . . 25--25 Hector C. Bywater Elevation and Range of British Naval Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27 Anonymous Obelisk-Raising Explained . . . . . . . 27--27 Vicente Villamin Industry in the Philippines . . . . . . 28--29 D. H. George Fighting the Mosquito . . . . . . . . . 30--30 Anonymous Marine Wood Borers at Work, Shop-Made Lawns by the Yard, and more . . . . . . 31--31 Anonymous Underpinning the Washington Monument . . 32--32 Anonymous A Canal that Grows Crops in a Barren Country, Harnessing the California River, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33 S. R. Winters Draining Land With Gasoline . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous Concrete in Surprising Places, Poisoning by Illuminating Gas . . . . . . . . . . 35--35 Anonymous Solving the Street Traffic Problem . . . 36--37 Anonymous Digging in Sacred Soil . . . . . . . . . 38--39 J. F. Springer Sawing Stones With Man-Made Stones . . . 40--41 Anonymous The Physical Basis of Life, Pure Ozone, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 Anonymous The Airplane-Carrier ``Langley'' . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 84--85 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 117--120 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 121--121 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August, 1923 . . . . . . 122--122 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 123--123 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 124--124 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 125--128 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 130--130 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134 Anonymous Mechanical Engineering Notes . . . . . . 137--137 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75 Anonymous Features of a properly constructed brick and frame residence, with the commonly used terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Edward H. Smith Invention and the ``Grifter'' . . . . . 78--79 A. G. Ingalls Camouflage and Carpentry . . . . . . . . 80--81 S. G. Roberts The Paper of the Future . . . . . . . . 82--83 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation in Europe --- IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86 Anonymous A Graphic Showing of American Automobile Statistics for 1923 . . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Anonymous A Giant Among Gigantic Wind Tunnels, A Model Railway in the Workaday World, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88 Anonymous The Trans-Atlantic Race . . . . . . . . 89--89 George V. Haskell Summer Time and Radio . . . . . . . . . 90--91 Anonymous Another Forward Step in Electrification 92--92 Anonymous Light Weight Cement Slabs that Take the Place of Lumber in Building Operations, Dahlia Sugar, and more . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Lee DeForest When Light Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94 Anonymous Spherical Aberration in Thin Lenses . . 94--94 C. McKnight Smith New United States Scout Cruiser ``Richmond'' --- Fastest of its Type . . 95--95 E. Bade Insect-Eating Insects . . . . . . . . . 96--96 Robert G. Skerrett Immunizing Cabbage by Natural Selection 97--97 Anonymous The Loudest Voiced Bird, Geography and Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Frank Munro Diamonds from Guiana . . . . . . . . . . 98--98 Anonymous A Beacon for Aviators, The Gipsy Moth and Dead Trees, and more . . . . . . . . 99--99 B. R. Cummings Carrier Current Telephony . . . . . . . 100--100 A. Gradenwitz Making Old Air Better than New, Chemical Analysis with the Spectroscope . . . . . 101--101 Eloise Gerry and T. R. Truax What Makes Glue Stick? . . . . . . . . . 102--102 Anonymous Solders for Aluminum, A Draw Bridge Which Slides Diagonally, and more . . . 103--103 George S. Eaton Concrete in the Making . . . . . . . . . 104--105 S. R. Winters Where the Temperature is 434 Degrees Below Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106 Anonymous When the Packer Turns Inventor, Marking Laundry by Machine . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous The Reconstructed Leviathan . . . . . . 108--109 George H. Dacy Women on the Farm . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110 Anonymous A Dummy Aircraft Observer, The Latest Motion Picture Outfit for Amateurs, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111 Ismar Ginsberg What is Color? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112 Anonymous Ur of the Chaldees: The Birthplace of Abraham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113 S. R. Winters Uncle Sam's Question-and-Answer Office 114--114 Anonymous For Learning Engine Pressures, The Rivet Gun and its Role, and more . . . . . . . 115--115 Anonymous A Readable Manual of Seismology . . . . 116--116 Anonymous A Sugar-Coated Dandruff Cure . . . . . . 116--116 Anonymous Internal Secretions and General Biology 116--116
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 158--159 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 187--190 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 191--191 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September, 1923 . . . . . 192--192 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 193--193 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 195--195 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 198--198 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200 Anonymous Patent and Trade-mark Notes . . . . . . 206--206 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Edward H. Smith The Inventor and the Gay Gambler . . . . 150--151 Avis Gordon Vestal Camps of the Central Circle . . . . . . 152--153 Austin C. Lescarboura ``A Small Private Laboratory'' . . . . . 154--154 Anonymous Where Sound Waves are Put --- the Wallace Clement Sabine Laboratory of Acoustics at Riverbank . . . . . . . . . 155--155 A. G. Ingalls Sprayed Rubber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156 Anonymous Sea-Going Ships for the State Barge Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 William A. McGarry Bringing Order Out of Chaos . . . . . . 160--160 Anonymous Converting the Lump of Coal into Electric Power and Light : New York's Hell Gate Station, Representing the Last Word in Generating Practice . . . . . . 161--161 S. R. Winters Sixteen-to-One Automobile Testing . . . 162--162 Anonymous High-Altitude Mountaineering . . . . . . 162--162 Anonymous The Trial Trip of the ``Leviathan'' . . 163--163 Anonymous Dynamiting Bedrock Over a Subway Tunnel in New York Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163 J. Malcolm Bird Psychic Adventures at Home . . . . . . . 164--165 Anonymous Some Milestones in the Development of the Modern Typewriter . . . . . . . . . 165--165 David C. Spencer Keeping the Ash in Motion . . . . . . . 166--166 Anonymous Ventilating an Existing Tunnel, The Use of Paper in Gardening . . . . . . . . . 167--167 George H. Dacy More Water for Washington . . . . . . . 168--168 Anonymous Protecting a Beach From Erosion by Ice, Liquid Oxygen as an Explosive . . . . . 169--169 Paul Griswold Howes The Army Ants of British Guiana . . . . 170--171 Anonymous The Wind-Power Automobile . . . . . . . 171--171 Anonymous What Happens When the Tire Hits the Road 172--172 Anonymous The Senses of Insects . . . . . . . . . 172--173 Anonymous The Heating Value of Gas, A Novel Instrument for Navigators . . . . . . . 173--173 Anonymous Safeguarding the Miner . . . . . . . . . 174--175 Anonymous A Diminutive Electric Tractor, Industrial Use of Powdered Coal . . . . 175--175 C. O. Ormsbee The Maple Sugar Industry . . . . . . . . 176--176 Anonymous Whole Wheat Bread Without Flour, Measuring the Drying-Time of Varnish . . 177--177 Anonymous Precision X-Ray Apparatus . . . . . . . 178--178 Anonymous Adrenalin, the Drug of the Hour, The Life History of a Star . . . . . . . . . 179--179 Anonymous Stretching the Harvest Through the Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181 Anonymous A Trade that is Passing, Copper Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181 Leo G. Hall Our Reserves of Energy . . . . . . . . . 182--182 Alfred Gradenwitz and S. R. Winters An Automatic Exposure-Meter, Doing Away with Dots and Dashes . . . . . . . . . . 183--183 A. A. Hopkins Relics of the 1840's . . . . . . . . . . 184--184 Anonymous Something About Calories . . . . . . . . 184--184 Anonymous A Flexible Clutch for Marine Diesel Engines, Friendly Germs . . . . . . . . 185--185 Albert Sauveur Making Wrought Iron a New Way . . . . . 186--186 J. B. Johnson The Cathode-Ray Oscillograph . . . . . . 194--194 Anonymous Botanical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 228--229 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 259--262 Anonymous The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 263--263 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October, 1923 . . . . . . 264--264 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 265--272 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 273--277 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220 Anonymous A Sunken Boulevard for Automobiles . . . 221--222 Edward H. Smith Protecting Our Great Banks . . . . . . . 222--224 L. Lodian Some Curious Comestibles . . . . . . . . 224--226 Alexander Klemin With the Men Who Fly --- I . . . . . . . 226--227 Anonymous Our Abrams Investigation --- I . . . . . 230--231 Anonymous The Six-Meter International Cup Race . . 231--231 Norman G. Meade Practical Criminology at Work . . . . . 232--233 A. G. Ingalls Behind the Underwriters' Label . . . . . 234--235 Anonymous Automobile Race Track on Factory Roof, The Acid Test for the Eight-Wheel Truck 235--235 Anonymous Electric Welder Vs. Riveter . . . . . . 236--236 Ernst Foerster A Rudder that Turns Itself, Proof of Einstein's Theory from the Atom . . . . 237--237 J. Malcolm Bird Psychic Adventures on the Continent . . 238--238 H. C. A Waterproof Motor for Lifeboats, A Veteran Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239 George H. Dacy Smashing Dishes to Solve their Secrets 240--240 Anonymous Stucco Investigation . . . . . . . . . . 240--240 Anonymous A Novel Use for Sugar-Cane Waste, A New Silver Which does not Stain, and more 241--241 Edward C. Crossman Why Armored Suits Fail . . . . . . . . . 242--242 Anonymous A Free Balloon Without Top-Valve . . . . 242--242 Anonymous Sunburned Eyes --- A Film-Studio Problem, Long-Distance Concerts in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243 Littell McClung When Water Power Paves the Streets . . . 244--244 Anonymous House-Moving by Ferry, A Machine for Sowing Seed by Hand, and more . . . . . 245--245 E. Bade Poisonous Plants of the Garden . . . . . 246--246 Anonymous Slipping Railroad Coaches to Save Time, Use of Kilocycles in Radio, and more . . 247--247 P. J. Risdon The Wembley Park Stadium . . . . . . . . 248--248 Anonymous A Traveling School for Railway Men, Standardization of Wood Screws . . . . . 249--249 B. B. Borchers When Wood Shrinks . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous New Cadmium-Gallium Lamp . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous The Attack Upon Diabetes . . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous Chemistry by Court Order . . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous The Lowest Temperature Yet Reached . . . 251--251 Norman M. Stineman Reaching Upward With Concrete . . . . . 252--252 Anonymous The Fact, the Course, and the Causes of Organic Evolution, Germany Builds New Super Radio Station . . . . . . . . . . 252--252 Anonymous Waterproofing Cloth by Electrical and Chemical Action, An Air Washer for the Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253 F. W. Peek, Jr. Make-Believe Lightning . . . . . . . . . 254--254 Anonymous A New and Novel Use for Aluminum . . . . 254--255 D. H. George Radio Without Interference . . . . . . . 255--255 Anonymous The Storage of Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257 W. F. Meggers Measuring with Light Waves . . . . . . . 258--258 Anonymous Travel and Exploration Notes . . . . . . 291--297
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 310--311 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 339--342 Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 343--343 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November, 1923 . . . . . 344--344 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 345--350 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 352--361 Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes: Miscellaneous . . . 361--362 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 363--365 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299 Edward H. Smith The Drama of Disputed Documents . . . . 302--303 Edgar W. Woolard Earthquakes and Volcanoes . . . . . . . 304--305 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- II . . . . 306--307 Sir Oliver Lodge Within the Atom . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309 Wm. S. Sims The Father of Our Modern Navy . . . . . 312--312 Albert Gleaves Has Sea Power Passed? . . . . . . . . . 313--314 Anonymous New Lift Bridges on the Jersey Central Railroad Across Newark Bay . . . . . . . 315--315 Gustave Geley Materialized Hands . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317 William A. McGarry The Animal Hospital . . . . . . . . . . 318--318 Anonymous Squeezing Softwood to Make It Hardwood, Angelique --- A Wood that Resists the Attack of the Teredo . . . . . . . . . . 319--319 George H. Dacy Why Headlight Glare? . . . . . . . . . . 320--320 Anonymous A Fool-Proof Recharger for Storage Batteries, Electric Heat for the Type-Metal Pot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321 M. Probst Righting a Capsized Ship . . . . . . . . 322--322 Anonymous Something Different in Belt Conveyors, Directive Radio Transmission on a Wave Length of 10 Meters, and more . . . . . 323--323 Anonymous Improving Irish Linen, When Our Teeth are Out of Gear, and more . . . . . . . 324--324 Anonymous A Versatile Motorcraft . . . . . . . . . 324--325 Alexander Klemin With the Men Who Fly --- II . . . . . . 326--327 Anonymous A Delicate Balance, Villa's Buried Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Anonymous Saving a Cathedral by Compressed Air . . 328--328 Anonymous A Photographic Museum . . . . . . . . . 328--328 Anonymous Automobiles and Near-Automobiles, Forests and Fertility, and more . . . . 329--329 Robert G. Skerrett Ball Bearings and how they are Made . . 330--331 Frank E. Hale Keeping Our Water Fit to Drink . . . . . 332--332 Anonymous A Midget Wind Tunnel that Works Like a Giant, A 29-Ton Portable Riveter, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333 P. J. Risdon Shifting Speeds with an Oil Pump . . . . 334--334 Anonymous Clever Contrivances of the Garage Man, A Circular Slide-Rule . . . . . . . . . . 335--335 Anonymous Fish as Food and Fertilizer . . . . . . 336--337 Anonymous Feeding the Automobile Engine . . . . . 338--338
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 388--389 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December, 1923 . . . . . 410--410 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 414--417 Major Victor W. Page The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle . . 418--418 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 419--422 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 424--436 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 438--440 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379 Alfred Gradenwitz A Wheelless Motor-Car . . . . . . . . . 381--381 Anonymous Charles Proteus Steinmetz . . . . . . . 381--381 Edward H. Smith With Fire and Fraud . . . . . . . . . . 382--383 Ismar Ginsberg The Fuel of the Future . . . . . . . . . 384--385 R. M. Sanders Three Wheels Versus Four . . . . . . . . 386--387 Anonymous Gelatine to Eat and Gelatine for Glue, Trackless Trolley Details, and more . . 387--387 J. Malcolm Bird Another Mediumistic Failure . . . . . . 390--391 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- III . . . . 392--392 Anonymous The Last Harbor of Forgotten Ships . . . 393--393 Anonymous Copenhagen--Bornholm Wireless Telephone Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393 J. F. Springer Some Great Dredges . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395 Anonymous The Lifting Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395 Anonymous Driving the Bomber to High Altitudes . . 396--396 Anonymous All Fixed for a Hard Winter, for the Hand Screw Machine, and more . . . . . . 397--397 Alfred Gradenwitz Making Sport a Science . . . . . . . . . 398--398 Anonymous A Milling-Machine Dynamometer, Trees and Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399 F. Le Roi Thurmond The Carlsbad Cave . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400 Anonymous Edison's First Incandescent Light . . . 400--400 Anonymous Tested for a Million Volts, A Gasoline Rail-Car of Power and Stability, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401 Leon Augustus Hausman and Ph. D The ``Horse-Hair Snake'' . . . . . . . . 402--402 Anonymous Where Bridges are Built in the Dead of Winter, The Largest Swimming Pool for Ten Thousand Swimmers, and more . . . . 403--403 Anonymous The Science of Distribution . . . . . . 404--404 Anonymous Recording Alternating Current Wave Forms, Amateur Photomicrography by Means of a Microscope and Hand Camera, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405 Theodore Merrill Fisher Colorado's Six-Mile Tunnel Under the Rockies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406 Marcus Benjamin Charles Doolittle Walcott, Physiological Effects of High Temperatures . . . . . . 407--407 John B. C. Kershaw The Air We Breathe . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408 Anonymous Mycenae, the City of Agamemnon, as Brought to Light by the Archaeologists 409--409 Anonymous Metering Water by the Wholesale, Pulling Down a Church Steeple With a Motor Winch, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411 Anonymous The World's Largest Subaqueous Tunnel 412--413 Anonymous A Permanent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--413
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 37--40 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January, 1924 . . . . . . 41--41 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 45--49 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 52--67 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- I . . . . . . . . 5--5 Victor W. Page Cars of 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9 Anonymous The Economic Position of Motor Transport 10--12 S. W. Clatworthy Driving the Motor Car with a Pendulum: The Latest Surprise of the Ingenious Inventor Constantinesco of Wave-Power Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- IV . . . . 16--17 Scientific American Staff Traffic and the Law . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 J. Malcolm Bird Psychic Adventures at Home . . . . . . . 20--21 Victor W. Page The Future of the Air-Cooled Car . . . . 22--23 Anonymous Floating the Car on Oil . . . . . . . . 24--24 Anonymous Balloon Tires and what they Mean . . . . 25--25 Alexander Klemin With the Men Who Fly --- III . . . . . . 26--27 Anonymous Solving Rapid Transit Congestion by the Moving Platform, Gassing Peach Borers 29--29 R. R. Belknap Life on Board U.S.S. ``Colorado'' . . . 30--30 Anonymous A Five-Hundred-Year-Old Roof . . . . . . 32--32 Alfred Gradenwitz A New Technique of Anesthesia, Haze and Mist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33 Lloyd Jacquet Electrifying Chile's Railways . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous Science and Blankets, Steel Wheels for Twentieth-Century Railroads, and more 35--35 John B. C. Kershaw Last Words of Science . . . . . . . . . 36--36 Anonymous Gasoline Cars and Trucks of 1924 . . . . 42--44
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 84--85 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February, 1924 . . . . . 110--110 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 111--114 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 116--121 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 122--132 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137 Anonymous The Oldest Eggs in the World . . . . . . 77--77 Edward H. Smith The Romance of the Lock . . . . . . . . 78--79 Anonymous Power from Mercury Vapor . . . . . . . . 80--81 Anonymous Our First Rigid Airship the ``Shenandoah'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation Advances . . . 86--86 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- V . . . . . 87--87 Anonymous What is Sleep? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88 Anonymous How Hafnium was Discovered . . . . . . . 88--88 Anonymous A Corkscrew Railway . . . . . . . . . . 89--89 A. G. Ingalls Remolding Our Civic Clay . . . . . . . . 90--91 Anonymous A Motor that Solves the Power-Factor Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Anonymous Making Plants Work Overtime by Means of Electric Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Illustrated London News Animal Sculpture of 25,000 Years Ago . . 92--92 Anonymous The Size of the Universe . . . . . . . . 92--92 Anonymous The Twin Trails Highway . . . . . . . . 93--93 Anonymous Suspending the Motor Car Body on Air . . 93--93 Anonymous Driving Locomotives with a Charge of Steam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Anonymous Head-Hunting in Papua . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Anonymous High Explosives that will not Freeze . . 94--94 Anonymous London Fogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94 Anonymous Exit the Pullman Car Hammock . . . . . . 95--95 Anonymous Stage Scenery on the Building Block Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95 Anonymous Recent Aeronautic Investigations . . . . 95--95 Anonymous Einstein and the Recent Eclipse . . . . 95--95 Scientific American Staff One Law Versus Forty-Eight . . . . . . . 96--96 Frank Hurley The Head Hunters of New Guinea . . . . . 97--97 Otto Wilson The Heat of the Earth . . . . . . . . . 98--98 Anonymous Flivvers of the Air that Approach 100 Miles Per Gallon . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Lichens --- Impossible Plants . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Lessons of the Japanese Earthquake . . . 100--100 Anonymous The Continuous-Traffic Lift Bridge . . . 101--101 Anonymous Bad Coal Ruins Family Wash . . . . . . . 101--101 Anonymous Ninety-Eight Tons of Steel in One Piece 101--101 Anonymous Cutting a Traffic Tangle with a \$20,000,000 Bridge . . . . . . . . . . 101--101 Anonymous Dog Distemper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101 A. A. Hopkins A Museum in the Open Air . . . . . . . . 102--102 Anonymous Educating Workmen to Accident Prevention 102--102 Anonymous The Pasteurization of Milk . . . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous Motor-Driven ``Big Wheels'' . . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous A Caterpillar Sprocket Wheel With Removable Teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous Gliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous Machine for Determining the Psychology of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous The Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic . . . . 104--104 Anonymous A Hack-Saw Blade that Improves with Age 105--105 Anonymous Doubling the Field of Vision of the Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Anonymous Seeking A Non-Destructive Method for Testing Wire Rope . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Anonymous Truck News from Abroad . . . . . . . . . 105--105 J. Hammond Smith With Camera and Chisel . . . . . . . . . 106--106 Anonymous A Giant Among Airplanes . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous Sulfur Corrosion . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous A Device that Takes Care of Worn Brake Linings and Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous Why Watch Springs Break . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- II . . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 156--156 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March, 1924 . . . . . . . 176--176 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 181--185 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 186--199 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 200--203 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205 Anonymous Electrical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208 Anonymous Keeping Open Our Harbor Channels . . . . 149--149 James H. Collins Necessity Mothers the Fisherman . . . . 150--151 Anonymous Arctic Exploration by Aircraft . . . . . 152--153 Edward C. Crossman Gun Catastrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 Anonymous A Wild Night on the ``Shenandoah'' . . . 158--158 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- VI . . . . 159--159 J. Malcolm Bird ``Thirty Years of Psychic Research'' . . 160--160 Ivan E. Houk When Beavers Aid Irrigation . . . . . . 161--161 Anonymous Elasticity and High Speeds . . . . . . . 161--161 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- III . . . . . . . 162--164 Anonymous A Hydroelectric Giant . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Anonymous Does Land Lie Near the Pole? . . . . . . 164--165 P. J. Risdon When a Second Seems an Age . . . . . . . 166--166 Anonymous New Ways to Use Slate, Molybdenum and its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167 Ismar Ginsberg More Steam-Engine Power Without Steam 168--168 Anonymous Making the Photoplay Unreal . . . . . . 169--169 A. G. Ingalls The Gelatine You Eat . . . . . . . . . . 170--170 Anonymous Relativity and Modern Physics . . . . . 170--170 Anonymous The Continuous-Motion Clock that does not Tick, To Measure the Stopping Power of Automobile Brakes . . . . . . . . . . 171--171 Anonymous The Problem of Mine Fires . . . . . . . 172--172 Anonymous Civilization and the Microbe . . . . . . 172--172 Anonymous Uncle Sam's Daily Market Basket . . . . 173--173 R. E. Livingston Harnessing Arkansas Water-Power . . . . 174--174 Anonymous The Size of Stars, Novel Gadget for the House-Painter, and more . . . . . . . . 175--175 Anonymous Moving Houses One-Third of a Mile on Narrow-Gage Tracks, The ``Chemical'' Sense, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177 Anonymous The Engine as a Brake . . . . . . . . . 178--178 Anonymous Uncommon Views of Common Insects . . . . 179--179 Guy E. Mitchell Laying the Ghost of a War-Time Trouble 180--180
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 230--230 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April, 1924 . . . . . . . 260--260 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 261--264 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 266--276 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 283--283 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--286 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219 J. Bernard Walker The Mooring Mast is the Thing . . . . . 221--221 Lieut. Corley P. McDarment Flying Around the World . . . . . . . . 222--223 Anonymous Teapot Dome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226 Guy E. Mitchell Running the Rapids of the Grand Canyon 226--227 Albert A. Hopkins A Theater Without a Stage . . . . . . . 228--229 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231 Scientific American Staff Untangling Our Automobile Laws . . . . . 232--232 Juanita W. Porter Houses of Mud . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233 Anonymous A Static or Dynamic Atom? . . . . . . . 233--233 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- IV . . . . . . . 234--234 Anonymous Water from Gasoline in Airships . . . . 234--235 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 236--236 Anonymous A Telescope of Record Dimensions, Shrouding the Propeller, and more . . . 237--237 Anonymous Largest and Fastest of the Zeppelins . . 238--239 Anonymous The Food of Corals, Filter-Passers: Living Beings Smaller Than Bacteria . . 239--239 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- VII . . . . 240--240 Anonymous From Log to Paper: A Brief Visit to a Great Newsprint Mill in Canada . . . . . 241--241 Charles W. Geiger Saving Dollars by Salving Scrap . . . . 242--242 Anonymous Ball Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242 Anonymous Shipping Milk in Carload Lots, Log Rafts in the Open Ocean, and more . . . . . . 243--243 Anonymous Little Fishes and Big Oil Pools . . . . 244--244 Anonymous How Gold Leaf is Made . . . . . . . . . 244--244 Anonymous Machines and Methods Used in the Manufacture of the Fabric Tire . . . . . 245--245 Harry A. Mount The Next Great Flood --- Where? . . . . 246--246 Anonymous Flowers that Dislike Music . . . . . . . 246--246 Anonymous Does Steel Melt from the Inside?, Storing Gasoline Under Pressure, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Albert Neuburger Checkmating the Moth . . . . . . . . . . 248--249 Anonymous Water-Jet Propulsion, Old Egyptian Water-Clocks, and more . . . . . . . . . 249--249 Howard F. Weiss Man-Made Lumber . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Machine-Gunning Auto Bandits, Certain Gear-Shifting With a Foot-Loose Gear-Box, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous Bombing the Battleship . . . . . . . . . 252--252 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 253--258 Anonymous The Wandering Rifle Bullet . . . . . . . 259--259 Anonymous Sulfur and its Many Uses . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 308--308 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 333--336 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May, 1924 . . . . . . . . 337--337 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 340--340 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357 Ismar Ginsberg Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . . . 363--364 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299 Austin C. Lescarboura and Mem. Aiee ``This is Station'' . . . . . . . . . . 302--303 Alfred Gradenwitz Experimental Telepathy . . . . . . . . . 304--305 Oliver Lodge Putting the Atom to Work . . . . . . . . 306--307 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- V . . . . . . . . 310--311 The Scientific American Staff When, Where, Why? . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- VIII . . . 313--313 H. D. Tiemann Does Paint Preserve Wood? . . . . . . . 314--315 Anonymous A New Trade, the Straightener? . . . . . 315--315 A. G. Ingalls Exploring Within the Steel . . . . . . . 316--317 Anonymous The Grocery on Wheels . . . . . . . . . 318--318 Anonymous Washington Memorial Bridge at Wilmington, Human Behavior and Reflexes, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319 Anonymous Post-Treaty Standing of the World's Navies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320 Anonymous Our Latest Battleship --- The ``Colorado'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321 Arthur L. Dahl Insular Irrigation . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322 Anonymous The Sense of Time . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322 Anonymous Translating Stresses Into Color for Visual Observation, Vision and Man's Mental Powers, and more . . . . . . . . 323--323 Francis A. Westbrook Making High-Tension Cables . . . . . . . 324--325 M. Luckiesh For Faster Seeing . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326 Anonymous Ammonia from the Air . . . . . . . . . . 326--326 C. A. Oldroyd Speeding Up the Water Turbine, A Movie ``Mayflower'' of Steel, and ore . . . . 327--327 S. F. Aaron Animal Animosities . . . . . . . . . . . 328--328 Anonymous Rotary Car-Dumping on a Giant Scale, Determining the Fire Hazards in a Forest, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329 Anonymous A scheme to salvage lost ideas, Saving Pulley-Power with Cardboard Disks . . . 330--330 Anonymous The Lore of the Archaeologist . . . . . 331--331 William Alphonso Murrill Truffles and Truffle Hunters . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 380--380 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 405--409 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June, 1924 . . . . . . . 410--410 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 411--412 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 414--420 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--432 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371 Anonymous The Family Tree of Coal Tar . . . . . . 373--373 Oliver Lodge Inside the Earth, and Out . . . . . . . 374--375 Anonymous Photographs of the Inner Body . . . . . 375--375 Edward H. Smith The Criminal as an Inventor . . . . . . 376--377 James H. Collins Taking the Stenches Out of Industry . . 378--379 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381 J. Malcolm Bird Telepathy and Radio . . . . . . . . . . 382--382 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- IX . . . . 383--383 Anonymous Getting Together on the Traffic Problem 384--384 S. W. Clatworthy The Locomotive of the Future . . . . . . 385--385 H. E. Davis The Blast Factory . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386 Anonymous Railway Ties of Concrete for India's Railways, Disappearing Searchlight Towers, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387 J. F. Springer Studying Fire Risks from Sample Fires 388--388 Anonymous Torpedo Attack by Airplane, Ferry Boats with Turbo-Electric Drive . . . . . . . 389--389 Ismar Ginsberg Coal and Coal Tar . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390 Anonymous Color in Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390 Anonymous Sydney Harbor Bridge . . . . . . . . . . 391--391 James H. Collins Fighting the Bed Bug . . . . . . . . . . 392--392 Anonymous A Gasoline Engine that is Different, Electric Light Extremes, and more . . . 393--393 H. H. Dunn The Largest Map in the World . . . . . . 394--394 Anonymous The Rotary System of Oil-Well Drilling 394--394 Anonymous A New Portable Microscope for Use in the Shop, An Old Canal Put to Use, and more 395--395 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- VI . . . . . . . 396--397 Leon Augustus Hausman Birds and Sewage Disposal . . . . . . . 398--398 Anonymous Fighting Forest Fires with Radio and Plane, Psychology and Criminal Responsibility, and more . . . . . . . . 399--399 Anonymous Uncle Sam's High-Priced School, The War Department Radio Net . . . . . . . . . . 400--400 Anonymous Safety of Life and Limb . . . . . . . . 401--401 M. Luckiesh The Sky by Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402 Anonymous New Ideas of Prehistoric Flora, A Tree with Engineering Judgment, and more . . 403--403 D. S. Olson Snowslides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--404 Anonymous Is Snowfall Decreasing? . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--12 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 37--42 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July, 1924 . . . . . . . 43--43 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 46--49 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 50--58 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous A New Miracle Mineral . . . . . . . . . 6--7 Austin C. Lescarboura Cross-Examining the Automobile . . . . . 8--9 Daniel Moreau Barringer Volcanoes --- Or Cosmic Shell-Holes? . . 10--11 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13 Charles W. Stokes With the ``Limited'' . . . . . . . . . . 14--14 Anonymous The Problem of the Obelisk . . . . . . . 15--15 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- X . . . . . 16--16 Anonymous A Still Larger Power Plant . . . . . . . 17--18 Anonymous Camping and Sporting Novelties . . . . . 18--19 Anonymous Repairing the ``Shenandoah'' . . . . . . 20--20 Anonymous Is Tire Retreading a Failure?, Packing Paste in Tubes, and more . . . . . . . . 21--21 O. M. Kile Crop Reporting by Airplane . . . . . . . 22--23 Anonymous Australian Power Projects, Fighting Senility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23 Harry Burton King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Treasure . . . . . 24--24 Anonymous A Novel Irrigation Sprayer, The Railroad Track Highway, and more . . . . . . . . 25--25 Walter S. Timmis More Heat From the Pound of Coal . . . . 26--26 Anonymous Vegetables for the Flower Garden . . . . 27--27 J. Malcolm Bird Our Next Psychic . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29 Anonymous Wichita Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30 Anonymous Effect of Manganese on Plant Growth . . 30--30 Anonymous Diesel-Driven Stern-Wheel Boat, Local Immunity in Infectious Diseases . . . . 31--31 Anonymous The Great Lakes --- St. Lawrence Deep-Sea Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous Bringing Color Photography Down to the Layman, Social Significance of the Army Intelligence Tests . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33 Anonymous A British Bureau of Standards, Applying the Yardstick to Radio Waves . . . . . . 34--34 S. F. Aaron The Earliest Engineers . . . . . . . . . 36--36 Anonymous What Happens in the Lime Cycle?, What Happens When Leather is Tanned?, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44 Anonymous Self-Igniting Water Lights, Some Forces in Social Evolution . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 84--84 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 109--114 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 119--119 Henry Norris Russell and Ph. D The Heavens in August, 1924 . . . . . . 122--122 Anonymous Our Readers' Point of View . . . . . . . 123--123 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 124--127 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 128--131 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135 J. Malcolm Bird On the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79 J. B. C. Kershaw The British Empire Exhibition . . . . . 80--81 Herbert Janvrin Browne Long-Range Weather Forecasting . . . . . 82--83 Anonymous Portraits of Columbus . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 James H. Collins Growing Our Own Bananas . . . . . . . . 86--86 Anonymous Telephoning Our Press Photographs . . . 87--87 J. Malcolm Bird The ``Margery'' Mediumship --- I . . . . 88--89 Anonymous Making a Monument Out of a Mountain . . 90--90 Anonymous A Car for Examining Tunnels, Handling Lumber in a Hurry, and more . . . . . . 91--91 Anonymous The British--American Cup Contest . . . 92--92 Anonymous Motion Pictures of Atoms . . . . . . . . 92--92 Anonymous The Oil-Electric Locomotive, The Kinetic Atom, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Anonymous A Landing-Field that Goes to Sea . . . . 94--94 Anonymous Modern Medicine and the Tropics . . . . 94--94 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Investigation --- XI . . . . 96--96 Anonymous Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge, The Utilization of Volcanic Steam in Italy, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- VII . . . . . . . 98--99 Anonymous The Assault on Mount Everest . . . . . . 100--100 Anonymous The Culture of Tissues Outside the Body 100--100 Anonymous A Super-Industrious Brick-Making Machine, Making Castings-Without Sand 101--101 Daniel Moreau Barringer Volcanoes or Cosmic Shell-Holes? --- II 102--102 Anonymous Dummy Airplanes as an Aid to Aeronautical Designing, A Library of Sand, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 J. F. Springer Coal Piles that Light Themselves . . . . 104--104 Anonymous From Cocoa and Sugar to Bon Bons: Candy in the Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 S. F. Aaron The Wars of Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106 Anonymous Taking the Period Out of the Automobile Engine, Putting the Tire Inside the Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Robt. W. A. Brewer What Happens to the Engine Oil? . . . . 108--108 Anonymous Spores in the Upper Air . . . . . . . . 108--108 Ismar Ginsberg New Uses for Rubber Milk . . . . . . . . 108--108 Anonymous The Transatlantic Voyage of ``ZR-III'' 115--115 Karl Fenning A Neglected Well of Information . . . . 116--116 Anonymous Our Radio Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117 Anonymous The Sugars --- What are They?, Textile Fibers --- How to Tell them Apart, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118 Haviland Hull Platt Atmospheric Heat as a Source of Power 120--120 Guy Otis Brewster Muscular Action in Work and Play . . . . 121--121
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 156--156 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 181--186 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September, 1924 . . . . . 187--187 Ismar Ginsberg The Service of the Chemist . . . . . . . 189--189 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 190--192 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 194--196 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Anonymous Super-Streets and Subways . . . . . . . 149--149 Anonymous The West Point Military Academy . . . . 150--151 Edward C. Crossman Tabbing the Speeding Bullet . . . . . . 152--153 Anonymous The Spellbinding Kilowatt . . . . . . . 154--154 Anonymous Serving 2200 Dinners at One Time . . . . 155--155 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Abrams Verdict . . . . . . . . . . . 158--160 Anonymous How London is Putting its Mail-Carrying Facilities Underground, Out of the Way of Traffic, in Automatically Operated Subways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--161 Ismar Ginsberg Pulp and Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163 W. J. Purcell Re-Broadcasting the Broadcast Program 164--164 Anonymous Acoustics and Plaster, A New Principle in Concrete Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165 L. Lodian What the Other Half Eats . . . . . . . . 166--167 Anonymous Face to Face with Vitamin D, Meteorites 167--167 J. B. C. Kershaw The British Empire Exhibition --- II . . 168--168 Anonymous From Raw Cotton and Silver Bullion to Your Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169 S. R. Winters Speeding Up the Sluggish Cables . . . . 170--170 Anonymous Camera to Photograph Cylindrical Surfaces, Scoring Ice by Machine, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171 Nauticus Giant Submarines . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172 Anonymous California's Foot-and-Mouth Quarantine, Making the Sun Help the Microscope, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- VIII . . . . . . 174--175 Anonymous The Battleship ``Mississippi'' Disaster 176--176 Anonymous An Advance in Trench-Digging Machinery, A Giant Among Vertical Spillways . . . . 177--177 Harold P. Brown Saving a Rotting Concrete Bridge . . . . 178--178 Anonymous Taking the Ear-Phones Off the Waiting Radio Man, Glow-Light Protection Against Lightning, and more . . . . . . . . . . 179--179 Donald K. Tressler Jewelry from Fish Scales . . . . . . . . 180--180 Anonymous How Metals are Etched, A Soap Free from Lye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 238--238 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 261--265 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October, 1924 . . . . . . 267--267 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 268--269 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 270--285 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--289 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 Anonymous South Kearny, N.J., The Latest of the Great Steam-Electric Power Stations . . 229--230 Lieutenant Corley P. McDarment Around the World by Air . . . . . . . . 230--232 J. Malcolm Bird Our Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 233--234 E. W. Rice, Jr. Research and Power . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235 George C. Kelcey Traffic Problems of the Large City . . . 236--237 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239 F. A. Rowlinson The Failure of Metals by Fatigue . . . . 240--240 S. W. Clatworthy Syrian Tomb, Antedating that of the Egyptian King, Tutankhamen, Revealed to the Archaeologist by an Accidental Rock Fall [See Facing Page] . . . . . . . . . 241--241 Hamilton M. Wright What the Shoe Reveals About the Foot . . 242--242 Anonymous Bugs Which Will not Take Poison . . . . 242--242 Anonymous A Continuous Depth Indicator for Ships, Watch Jewels, and more . . . . . . . . . 243--243 Anonymous Turning the Wheels of the Railroad: Steam Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245 Ernest Bade Bringing the Carboniferous Period into the Greenhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246 Anonymous Noiseless Pavements of Long-Lived Rubber, External Water-Curtain for Skyscraper Protection . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Nauticus The Airplane Carrier ``Hermes'' . . . . 248--249 Anonymous Consonants and the Telephone, The Latest and Largest Floating Crane, and more . . 249--249 Oliver S. Arata Cahokia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Energy Waste in Nature and Household, The Thyroid Gland . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous The Metamorphosis of the Farm Tractor, X-Ray Photographs of Mummies, and more 251--251 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- IX . . . . . . . 252--253 J. B. C. Kershaw The British Empire Exhibition --- III 254--254 Anonymous Flax Barriers to Check Drifting Sand, ``Two Star'' Method of Position Finding, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255 Anonymous Seeing Without Eyes . . . . . . . . . . 256--256 Anonymous Ferments and their Work in the Organism 256--256 Anonymous Preparing Baby's Milk: How Milk is Pasteurized on a Huge Scale With a Minimum of Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257 Anonymous Something New in Bridge Design . . . . . 258--258 Anonymous Keeping the Crankcase Oil Pure, Firing a Locomotive with Milk, and more . . . . . 259--259 Anonymous A Study in Feminine Invention . . . . . 260--260 Austin C. Lescarboura Our Radio Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 308--308 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 331--335 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November, 1924 . . . . . 337--337 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 338--340 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 342--348 Anonymous Civil Engineering Notes . . . . . . . . 351--363 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--373 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299 Paul V. Winslow Helping Deafness by Nerve Stimulation 301--303 E. E. Free Our Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 304--304 Nicholas P. Rashevsky The Possibility of Other Kinds of Space 305--307 Anonymous Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309 Frederic M. Delano, Jr. Listening to the Stars . . . . . . . . . 310--311 Anonymous Help Us Study the Solar Eclipse . . . . 312--312 Anonymous Behind the Curtain of a Great Theater --- Some of the Things the Audience Never Sees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313 H. C. Dinger Our Post-War Navy . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315 Anonymous Six-Meter Team Race . . . . . . . . . . 316--317 Anonymous Precious Stones in Plants, Lubricating the Flanges of Locomotive Wheels, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317 Arthur L. Collins Putting Heat in the Bank . . . . . . . . 318--318 Anonymous Making Cord-Tire Fabric by One of the New Web-Cord Processes . . . . . . . . . 319--319 Anonymous Development of the American Submarine 320--321 Anonymous Temperature Variations in Plants, An Electrical Jack-of-All-Trades . . . . . 321--321 Ralph Howard Microscopic Vegetable Growing . . . . . 322--323 Anonymous Two Pecks of Sugar from One Bushel of Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- X . . . . . . . . 324--325 Anonymous Methods of Evolution . . . . . . . . . . 325--325 Anonymous The Gasoline-Electric Bus . . . . . . . 326--326 Anonymous The Punch Press, The World's Most Dangerous Tool, And how it is Robbed$ \cdot $ of its Menace in the Up-To-Date Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Ismar Ginsberg Charcoal, The Chemical Truant Officer 328--328 Ernest Bade When the Leaves Begin to Fall, The Physics of Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329 Anonymous Living Catalysts . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous The Whys of Paper and Ink . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous Gases in Industry and Home . . . . . . . 330--330 Anonymous Our Radio Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336 Anonymous Casein and its Products . . . . . . . . 364--367
Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 405--409 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December, 1924 . . . . . 410--410 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 411--416 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 416--420 Anonymous Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--438 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 438--440 Anonymous Science Notes: Science Notes the Present Status of Fruit and Vegetable Dehydration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--446 Anonymous Index to Volume 131 . . . . . . . . . . 447--450 Anonymous With the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379 Douglas Stanley and H. H. Sheldon Scientific Tests for Good and Bad Singers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383 Walter Franklin Prince Experiences Which I Cannot Explain Away 384--386 Anonymous How Important is the Discovery of the Lost City of Leptis Magna? . . . . . . . 387--387 Anonymous An Editorial and Two Announcements . . . 388--388 Anonymous Why we are Trying to Make Gold . . . . . 389--389 Anonymous Our Radio Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390 Frederic M. Delano Radio Vacuum Tubes that You Can Take Apart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391 Anonymous A Costly Dump Heap . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392 Edward H. Smith The Latest Developments in Bank Burglary 393--395 Anonymous Is the End of Our Power Resources in Sight? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396 Anonymous This Great Tunnel, Forty-four Feet in Diameter, Will be the Largest in Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- XI . . . . . . . 398--399 Nicolas P. Rashevsky Is Time the Fourth Dimension? . . . . . 400--402 Leon Augustus Hausman The Basis of Aquatic Life . . . . . . . 403--404 Anonymous Attacking Malaria With Airplanes . . . . 404--404 Anonymous Letters from Our Readers . . . . . . . . 441--443
Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 34--38 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 39--40 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 46--51 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 53--53 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 54--56 Austin C. Lescarboura Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--61 H. W. Slauson What Should we Expect of Tomorrow's Motor Car Developments? . . . . . . . . 5--8 Anonymous Mt. Shasta's Mighty River of Mud . . . . 9--9 R. L. Duffus What Causes and What Cures Fatigue? . . 10--11 Anonymous Famous German Sail-less Ship Driven by Same Wind Forces that Make Base Ball Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12 Henry Norris Russell Do not Miss Seeing the Solar Eclipse . . 13--13 Ernest W. Brown Eclipse Investigations not Requiring Special Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous Our Own Radio Investigation . . . . . . 16--16 Paul D. Hugon Mountains Made to Order . . . . . . . . 17--17 Alexander Klemin Can Huge Dirigibles Supplant Our Ocean Liners? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21 Anonymous Common Accidents Easy to Avoid . . . . . 22--22 Anonymous New Bridge Saves Time . . . . . . . . . 23--23 Uthai Vincent Wilcox A New Niagara of Subterranean Power . . 24--25 Harold J. Shepstone A Race with Nature . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27 H. S. McCauley Methods of Testing Chauffeurs . . . . . 28--28 L. R. G. Crandon The Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 29--29 Nicolas P. Rashevsky The Size of the Universe . . . . . . . . 30--31 S. F. Aaron Jewels in the Eyes of Insects . . . . . 32--33 Anonymous Which Radio Set to Buy . . . . . . . . . 41--44 Anonymous Eclipse Coupon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61 Anonymous The \booktitleScientific American Annual Automobile Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 84--84 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 105--110 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 111--112 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 114--122 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 123--128 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 129--130 Austin C. Lescarboura Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--136 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144 Albert A. Hopkins Which Races are Best? . . . . . . . . . 77--79 Anonymous Solar System inside the atom . . . . . . 80--81 H. O. Herzog More Facts About the Flettner Rotor Ship 82--83 Anonymous Some Radio Mysteries Which the Eclipse Investigation May Help to Explain . . . 85--86 Anonymous The Solar Eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86 Anonymous Watch Your Step ! . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Albert G. Ingalls Is the Steam Horse to Pass Away? . . . . 88--89 Anonymous Picture Feature --- . . . . . . . . . . 90--91 Edward C. Crossman Leading a River Across the Desert . . . 92--93 Alexander Klemin Can we Prevent Aerial Holocausts? . . . 94--96 Henry Norris Russell New Facts About Life on Mars . . . . . . 97--98 Leon Augustus Hausman Revolutionary New Facts About Hair . . . 98--99 Anonymous The High Point of Human Endurance . . . 100--100 Anonymous Which Radio Set to Buy . . . . . . . . . 101--104 Anonymous Letters From Our Readers . . . . . . . . 128--129 Jack Barrett A Cross-Word Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . 130--132 Walter Franklin Prince The Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 156--156 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 174--180 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 186--187 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 190--201 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 201--201 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 203--207 Austin C. Lescarboura Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--211 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212 Mary McFadden What Minute Will You Die? . . . . . . . 149--151 H. W. Slauson The Auto's Toll of Lives . . . . . . . . 152--154 Anonymous ``The Best Observed Eclipse in History'' 155--155 Anonymous Our Artificial Gold Investigation . . . 157--157 Anonymous New Knowledge of Old Egypt . . . . . . . 158--159 S. F. Aaron The Hunting Spiders . . . . . . . . . . 160--160 Calvert Townley The Age of Fire is Passing . . . . . . . 161--163 Anonymous Model Maker Suggests Way to Help New York Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Henry Norris Russell Widening the Limits of the Universe . . 165--165 Alexander Klemin Future Leviathans of the Skies . . . . . 166--168 Anonymous What Becomes of the Energy Contained in a Ton of Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169 G. H. Morison Heavens Built of Concrete . . . . . . . 170--171 Anonymous Our Radio Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172 J. H. W. Kerston Streamline Bodies Save Power . . . . . . 173--173 Anonymous Steel to Replace Stone . . . . . . . . . 181--181 Anonymous Which Radio Set to Buy . . . . . . . . . 182--185 Jack Barrett A Cross-Word Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 228--228 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 250--255 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 256--258 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 258--268 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 269--274 Austin C. Lescarboura Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--278 E. E. Free Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 280--280 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285 Henry Norris Russell Two Outstanding Features of the Eclipse 221--222 Anonymous Why was the Moon Late? . . . . . . . . . 223--223 Alfred P. Lane and F. X. Walsh The Effects of the Eclipse on Radio . . 224--226 Anonymous Prize for Criticism of Eclipse Motion Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 Anonymous A New Link in Man's Ancestry . . . . . . 228--228 Anonymous The Psychic Investigation . . . . . . . 229--229 John Kenlon Why Let Your House Catch Fire? . . . . . 230--232 J. Bernard Walker New Concrete Pier at Bremerton Navy Yard 233--234 Anonymous Devices to Enable a Pilot to Maintain his Course and Equilibrium in Foggy Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235 K. A. Campbell From the Gold of Croesus to the Gold Dust Twins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237 Albert A. Hopkins Protection from the Tooth of Time . . . 238--238 Lawrence The Unusual Occupation of Inlaying Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239 Anonymous Our Radio Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240 Paul B. Findley Electric Filters that Illustrate Defects of Radio Loudspeakers . . . . . . . . . 241--241 Harold T. Stearns The 1924 Eruption of the Hawaiian Volcano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243 Anonymous Modern Ideas for Machine Shops . . . . . 244--244 Anonymous The Krupp Turbine Locomotive . . . . . . 245--245 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- XII . . . . . . . 246--247 S. F. Aaron The Smell Organs of Insects . . . . . . 248--249 Anonymous A New Variety of Cross-Word Puzzle . . . 281--282
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 300--300 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 321--326 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 327--328 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 330--338 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 342--347 E. E. Free Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349 Austin C. Lescarboura Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--354 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357 Alfred P. Lane Muscle Shoals --- Bonanza or White Elephant? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295 H. W. Szausore A New Plan for Traffic Laws . . . . . . 296--298 Anonymous Locust Fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299 Anonymous The Marvelous Speeds of Atomic Particles 301--301 J. Bernard Walker Saving St. Paul's Cathedral . . . . . . 302--304 Anonymous How the Average Man of Seventy-Two has Spent his Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305 J. Bernard Walker Last Word on the 5-5-3 Ratio . . . . . . 306--308 Albert G. Ingalls Did Man Evolve in Africa? . . . . . . . 308--309 Anonymous A Policy for the Conservation of Our Wild Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310 Anonymous A Bird Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311 Anonymous Mechanical Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313 Anonymous The Manufacture of Thermometers . . . . 314--314 Henry Norris Russell Are there Other Habitable Worlds? . . . 315--316 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- XIII . . . . . . 316--317 S. F. Aaron Mighty Hunters in the World of Ants . . 318--319 Anonymous This Laboratory Can Supply Electric Currents with the Tremendous Potential of Over a Million Volts . . . . . . . . 320--320 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 328--330 William McDougall The ``Margery Mediumship'' . . . . . . . 339--341
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 372--372 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 392--395 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 398--400 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 402--413 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 414--417 John K. Brachvogel Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 420--420 Thomas Elway Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--425 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 426--430 Albert G. Ingalls Out of Doors With the Earth . . . . . . 365--367 J. Bernard Walker The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race . . . 368--370 Anonymous How Science Aids the Safety of German Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371 Anonymous Herbert Hoover and the Patent Office 373--373 Charles Fitzhugh Talman Vacation Meteorology and the Lure of Cloudland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376 Anonymous Analyzing a ``Pea Souper'' . . . . . . . 377--377 A. Forestier The Roman Villa at Chedworth . . . . . . 378--379 J. Bernard Walker The Low-Resistance Airplane . . . . . . 380--381 Paul B. Findley Making the Air Tell Tales on itself . . 382--383 Anonymous New Motor Liner Aorangi . . . . . . . . 384--384 Henry Norris Russell The Star Called ``Wonderful'' . . . . . 385--386 Anonymous A Three-hundred-ton Machine Tool . . . . 387--387 Anonymous The Story of Steel --- XIV . . . . . . . 388--389 S. F. Aaron What are the Sounds that Insects Hear? 390--391 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--12 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 35--38 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 39--40 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 52--56 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 57--61 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--66 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 66--66 Chase Donaldson Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68 Roy Waldo Miner The Kingdom of the Tides . . . . . . . . 5--7 Anonymous Air Traffic in Europe . . . . . . . . . 8--9 Henry S. Washington What the Earth is Made of . . . . . . . 10--11 Anonymous The Cathedral of Learning . . . . . . . 13--13 M. R. Harrington The ``Lost City'' of Nevada . . . . . . 14--16 Anonymous The Amazing World Growth of Telephone Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Enjoy Your Radio ``Far from the Madding Crowd'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 J. Bernard Walker The Passing of ``Old Ironsides'' . . . . 20--22 Anonymous ``Cross-Words'' Anno Domini 225 . . . . 23--23 H. E. Howe Chemistry in World Affairs --- I . . . . 24--25 E. J. Goodnough There are no ``Jimmy Valentines'' . . . 26--27 Anonymous World's Greatest City Water Supply System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28 Henry Norris Russell Three Newly Discovered Comets . . . . . 29--29 Theodore M. Knappen The Dire Demon in Our Forests . . . . . 30--32 P. Cormac Engine Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39 Thomas F. Lee Banana Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 Ewald Schild The Wonderful Weaver of Webs . . . . . . 42--43 Anonymous Putting Slag to Work . . . . . . . . . . 44--45 J. P. Ault Surveying the Oceans With the Non-Magnetic Yacht ``Carnegie'' . . . . 46--47 Anonymous Making the Staff of Life by Machinery 48--49 Anonymous ``Which Races are Best?'' . . . . . . . 50--51
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 84--84 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 114--118 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 119--121 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 122--125 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 126--129 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 130--132 Henrv Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 134--134 Chase Donaldson Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--142 H. W. Slauson Saving the Motorist from Himself . . . . 77--79 Sir Oliver Lodge Matter, Ether and Energy . . . . . . . . 80--81 Milton Wright The Skin Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83 J. Allen Gilbert ``Spirit Return'' . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Albert A. Hopkins Plumbing the Depths of Neptune's Secrets 86--87 Henry Norris Russell Remarkable New Tests Favor the Einstein Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88 Anonymous How the True Cattalo is Bred . . . . . . 89--89 Major H. H. Arnold Contact and Refueling Now Accomplished in the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91 William I. Wyman A Record of Achievement . . . . . . . . 92--92 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio at the North Pole . . . . . . . . 93--93 G. A. Rankin How Explosive are Explosives? . . . . . 94--95 H. E. Howe Chemistry in World Affairs --- II . . . 96--97 Edward Ellington Daylight, Twilight and Mist in the Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99 Dudley W. Knox Another Side of the 5-5-3 Argument . . . 100--101 J. Bernard Walker The Delaware River Bridge . . . . . . . 102--103 Francis Dickie The Centenary of the Railroad . . . . . 104--105 S. F. Aaron Mammals Almost as Small as Insects . . . 106--107 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 108--109 Robert L. Duffus Fish from Artesian Wells in the Sahara 110--111 Thomas R. Horner The Mountains Light a City . . . . . . . 112--113 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119 P. Cormac Engine Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 156--156 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 188--190 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 191--193 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 194--194 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 198--199 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 199--199 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 200--203 Chase Donaldson Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--213 James H. Collins Panic! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--151 J. Bernard Walker Wind, Sail and Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153 John J. Wallace The Impossible in Stage Lighting is Achieved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 Albert G. Ingalls Did Man Descend from Monkeys? . . . . . 157--157 S. P. Meek Tagging a Bullet on the Wing . . . . . . 158--159 Henry Norris Russell The Theory of Stellar Evolution Modified 160--160 Anonymous The Silent Menace of the Oceans . . . . 161--161 Nicolas P. Rashevsky Must Our Universe be Infinite? . . . . . 162--163 Boyden Sparks Safeguarding the Airplane Pilot . . . . 164--165 Philip N. Youtz The Higher Education of the Silkworm . . 166--167 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Will Your Radio Set be Obsolete? . . . . 168--169 George K. Burgess United States Bureau of Standards Eclipse Observations . . . . . . . . . . 170--171 Alanson B. Skinner Grisly War Trophies . . . . . . . . . . 172--173 Frederic M. Delano How the Parisian Enjoys Opera at Home 174--174 H. E. Howe Chemistry in World Affairs --- III . . . 175--177 J. Bernard Walker Some Naval Theories Exploded . . . . . . 178--179 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 180--181 Channing Patten The Life Spark of Motordom . . . . . . . 182--183 S. F. Aaron Insect Parasites of Insects . . . . . . 184--185 Albert G. Ingalls New Light on Evolving Man . . . . . . . 186--187 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 228--228 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 256--257 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 258--259 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 260--266 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 266--266 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 268--270 Chase Donaldson Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 273--278 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283 Guy Elliott Mitchell Heroes of Mapmaking . . . . . . . . . . 221--223 Richard E. Enright Everybody Should be Fingerprinted . . . 224--225 Anonymous Can Old Age be Deferred? . . . . . . . . 226--227 Anonymous The Barnard Ultra-Microscope and Photo-Micrographs of the Cancer Germ . . 229--229 A. Smits and A. Karssen Cracking the Lead Atom . . . . . . . . . 230--231 Anonymous Making the Movie Film Give the Music Cues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--232 Paul B. Findley Checking the Magnetic Permeability of Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233 Albert G. Ingalls Evolution, From the Nebula to 1925 . . . 234--235 Victor G. Heiser The World's Largest Leper Colony . . . . 236--237 Val. Fendrich On their Way in Thirty Seconds . . . . . 238--240 Henry Norris Russell The New, or Modified, Form of the Theory of Stellar Evolution . . . . . . . . . . 241--241 Morris Fishbein The Progress of Medical Science --- I 242--243 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Super-Radio to Span the Atlantic . . . . 244--245 Arthur H. Compton Light Waves or Light Bullets? . . . . . 246--247 Albert A. Hopkins Elevators With Electric Brains . . . . . 248--249 Hector C. Bywater New Treaty Battleships ``Nelson'' and ``Rodney'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251 Anonymous Which Radio Set is Ideal for You? . . . 252--255 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 300--300 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 326--328 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 329--331 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 332--332 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 340--345 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 346--348 Chase Donaldson Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--357 Albert G. Ingalls ``The Heavens Declare the Glory of God'' 293--295 Anonymous Tests Fail to Confirm Transmutation to Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297 Tom White Every Crime is Entrenched Behind a Lie 298--299 J. Bernard Walker The Tragedy of the ``Shenandoah'' . . . 301--301 Nell Ray Clarke Fighting Disease With Aniline Dyes . . . 302--303 Henry Norm Russell Nova Pictoris --- A Temporary Star . . . 304--304 Anonymous Controlling a Million Horsepower . . . . 305--305 Leon Augustus Hausman Why Hair Turns Gray . . . . . . . . . . 306--307 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. An Invisible Police Alarm . . . . . . . 308--309 Morris Fishbein The Progress of Medical Science --- II 310--311 James C. Bardin The Amazingly Accurate Calendar System of the Maya Indians . . . . . . . . . . 312--313 Louis S. Treadwell Another Victory for Oil Equipment . . . 314--315 George F. Paul Linking Mexico and California . . . . . 316--317 James W. Bayless Have We Too Many Traffic Laws? . . . . . 318--319 James W. Mavor What is a Gynandromorph? . . . . . . . . 322--322 Anonymous The Short-lived, Eight-foot Flower of Sumatra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 372--372 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 398--400 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions . . . . . . 401--402 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 403--407 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 408--420 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--427 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 428--429 Chase Donaldson Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 431--431 Alexander Klemin The Air Races of 1925 . . . . . . . . . 365--368 Henry Norris Russell Is the Universe Running Down? . . . . . 369--369 Walter Franklin Prince My Doubts About Spirit Photographs . . . 370--371 Anonymous Tragic Loss of the Submarine S-51 . . . 373--374 Rudolph M. Binder Man is what he Eats . . . . . . . . . . 374--375 William H. Woodwell The ``Constitution'' Saved by Canvas Sea Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376 Anonymous Veterinary Department of Western University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Does a Radio ``Roof'' Top the World? . . 378--380 Morris Fishbein The Progress of Medical Science --- III 380--382 D. H. Killeffer Plating Rubber, Just Like Metal . . . . 382--384 Edward C. Grossman The Arrival of the Boat-tail Bullet . . 384--386 Albert A. Hopkins A Machine that is More than Human . . . 386--387 Anonymous What Becomes of Your Railroad Fares . . 388--390 Lewis R. Freeman Bridge to Span the Grand Canyon . . . . 390--392 Albert G. Ingalls Buried Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--394 John L. Von Blon Naturalizing the Chinchilla . . . . . . 394--396 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 396--397 Milton Wright News for Inventors . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--12 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 38--41 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 42--46 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 48--48 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 57--59 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 69--69 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 70--70 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 70--71 Anonymous The Tragedy of the Indian . . . . . . . 5--7 Albert G. Ingalls Are the Continents Drifting? . . . . . . 8--9 Edward C. Crossman Shooting Clinker Rings from Kilns . . . 10--10 Albert G. Ingalls Are These Elephants? . . . . . . . . . . 11--11 Anonymous Spirit Mediums Fail in Test . . . . . . 13--13 H. W. Slauson Comfort from Your Motor . . . . . . . . 14--15 Henry Norris Russell American Eclipse Expeditions to the Far East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16 Anonymous Steps in the Manufacture of the All-important Rear Axle . . . . . . . . 17--17 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Giving Trains a Radio Voice . . . . . . 18--19 J. Reid Moir Men of the Early Glacial Epoch . . . . . 20--21 Anonymous Machining Mountainous Masses of Metal 22--23 Anonymous The Largest American-Built Liner . . . . 24--24 Anonymous The Peril of Gas Poisoning . . . . . . . 25--25 Morris Fishbein The Progress of Medical Science --- IV 26--27 Stephen Jones Seeing Our Speech as Others Hear It . . 28--29 J. Bernard Walker Running a River Through a Mountain . . . 30--31 Anonymous The Automatic Quartermaster . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous From the Oldest City in the World . . . 33--33 S. F. Aaron Wintering Habits of Insects . . . . . . 34--35 Henry B. Curry The Music of the Skies . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 84--84 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 110--113 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 114--118 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 120--128 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 132--132 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--137 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 138--140 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 142--142 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 142--143 E. E. Free Have we Food to Feed Our Immigrants . . 77--79 A. Smits and A. Karssen The Transmutation of Elements . . . . . 80--81 Beverly L. Clarke What is Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83 Anonymous The Sacrificial Pool of the Maya Indian Maidens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Russell W. Porter Mirror Making for Reflecting Telescopes 86--89 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Girdling the Earth With a Radio Beam . . 90--91 Anonymous Neptune and the Postman . . . . . . . . 92--92 Albert G. Ingalls Canned Radio Telegraphy . . . . . . . . 93--93 Henry Norris Russell What are Shooting Stars and Meteorites? 94--94 Anonymous Two Brilliant Planets, Jupiter and Venus, in Conjunction . . . . . . . . . 95--95 Hugh Hammond Bennett Shall we Throw Away our Soil? . . . . . 96--97 Guy E. Mitchell The Standing Stone Forests of Wyoming 98--99 Francis A. Westbrook An Epoch-Making Engineering Achievement 100--101 Guy E. Mitchell Mapping Unknown Alaska . . . . . . . . . 102--103 Joseph P. Maxfield Electrical Research Applied to the Phonograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105 Nell Ray Clarke Ice Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 108--109
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 156--156 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 182--184 Albert G. Ingalls The \booktitleScientific American Industrial Digest . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 194--194 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money: Science and Money the Oil Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 198--198 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--205 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 206--211 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 214--214 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 214--216 R. A. Millikan Cosmic Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150 Noel W. Smith Our Alaska Railroad . . . . . . . . . . 151--153 Harold J. Shepstone Solving Greenland's Historic Mystery . . 154--155 Henry Norris Russell Star Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 Guy Elliot Mitchell The Subjugation of the Colorado . . . . 158--159 Anonymous Cooling Your House in Summer . . . . . . 160--160 Anonymous Scenes in a Pineapple Cannery in Hawaii 161--161 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Seeing Around the World by Radio . . . . 162--163 Russell W. Porter Mountings for Reflecting Telescopes . . 164--167 D. H. Killeffer Peacetime Uses for ``Poison Gas'' . . . 168--169 Nell Ray Clarke Telephoning Beneath the Sea . . . . . . 170--170 Anonymous A Tree of Electricity . . . . . . . . . 171--171 Colin G. Fink and Charles H. Eldridge The Restoration of Ancient Bronzes . . . 172--173 Karl J. Ellington More Mud Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175 Albert A. Hopkins The Art of Cutting Diamonds . . . . . . 176--177 S. F. Aaron The Carolina Wren . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 180--181
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 228--228 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 257--260 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 262--262 Anonymous Science Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--275 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 276--278 Albert A. Hopkins Notes and Queries . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 280--282 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 282--282 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 284--284 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 284--286 Theodore Leslie Shear Recent Excavations at Corinth . . . . . 221--223 A. V. Hill The Scientific Study of Athletics . . . 224--225 J. Bernard Walker Heroism on the High Seas . . . . . . . . 226--227 Henry Norris Russell A Stellar System 700,000 Light-Years Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- I . . . . . . 230--232 Thomas Gann A New Maya Discovery in Mexico . . . . . 233--233 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Shooting Radio Concerts into the Sky . . 234--235 Frank W. Skinner Diving Through Mud to Rock . . . . . . . 236--236 M. Luckiesh The Super-Telescope . . . . . . . . . . 237--237 Milton Wright Down on the Fish Farm . . . . . . . . . 238--239 D. H. Killeffer \$300,000,000 Annually Consumed by Rust! 240--241 John L. Von Blon A ``Garden of Allah'' in Death Valley 242--243 Oscar Lewis New Arenas of Sport . . . . . . . . . . 244--245 George F. Paul The Six-Mile Moffat Tunnel . . . . . . . 246--246 Guy E. Mitchell The Persian Lamb and Our Fur Industry 247--247 J. W. Tarrentine Goiter --- A Dietary Problem . . . . . . 248--249 Anonymous Interest Revived in Racing Pigeons . . . 250--250 Leon Augustus Hausman The Mythological Rain-Tree . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 252--253 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Horne 254--256
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 300--300 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 326--328 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 329--337 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 338--340 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 341--344 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--350 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 351--356 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 357--358 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 357--359 G. Elliot Smith Ancient Mariners and the Spread of Early Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294 T. D. A. Cockerell How Can We Produce Scientific Workers? 295--295 David Starr Jordan Malaria and the Mosquito Fish . . . . . 296--297 H. H. Sheldon Acoustical Research in Auditoriums . . . 298--299 Colonel H. E. Cloke Is Anti-aircraft Artillery Overtaking the Airplane? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--303 Henry Norris Russell The Great Outer Planets . . . . . . . . 304--304 Anonymous Tut-Ankh-Amen's Golden Coffins, the Work of Ancient Egypt's Most Skilled Artisans 305--305 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Whirlpools in the Ether . . . . . 306--307 George Grant MacCurdy Old Problems and New Methods in Prehistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309 William Duncan MacMillan The New Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311 Winfield Scott A Diamond Quest in California . . . . . 312--313 Anonymous Interesting Air Stamps and Historic Cancellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314 J. Bernard Walker Horsepower from the Tides . . . . . . . 315--315 R. K. Helphenstine, Jr. A Way to Conserve Our Valuable Timber Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317 J. E. Murphy Western City Ends Flood Menace . . . . . 318--319 James H. Collins An Underground Moving Picture Theatre 320--320 Anonymous Fossils in Architecture . . . . . . . . 321--321 S. F. Aaron Nature Faking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 324--325
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 372--372 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 399--400 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 402--402 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 413--416 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 417--419 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 420--421 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 421--421 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--427 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 428--428 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 428--429 Anonymous Index to Volume 134 --- January--June, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431 Luther Burbank Prodigal Mother Nature . . . . . . . . . 365--366 Henry Norris Russell How to Observe the Great, New Sun Spots 367--367 H. W. Slauson And We Call Ourselves Efficient . . . . 368--369 Frank Wigglesworth Clarke The Internal Heat of the Earth . . . . . 370--371 Anonymous The Great Crimson Aurora of March 9, as Seen Over the City of London . . . . . . 373--373 Anonymous Mileage Goes Up in Smoke . . . . . . . . 374--374 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- II . . . . . 375--376 Anonymous Houses Built in Twenty-four Hours! . . . 377--377 D. T. MacDougal The Hydrostatic System of Trees . . . . 378--379 Albert A. Hopkins The Applied Science of Public Spending 380--381 Milton Wright Budding Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383 Howland Wood Odd Pieces of Change . . . . . . . . . . 384--385 Anonymous X-Rays and Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Eavesdropping on the Arctic . . . . . . 388--389 W. H. P. Blandy The Manufacture of a Battleship's Turret Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--391 J. Bernard Walker Annapolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--394 Anonymous Oil Engine in a New Field . . . . . . . 395--395 Anonymous Something New in Gas Holders . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--12 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 45--49 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 51--56 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 60--65 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 72--74 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 76--76 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 77--77 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 77--79 Ales Hrdlicka The Race and Antiquity of the American Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9 H. H. Sheldon Polarized Light and Plants . . . . . . . 10--11 Henry Norris Russell Is the Earth's Diameter Changing? . . . 13--13 T. D. A. Cockerell Natural History for Tourists . . . . . . 14--15 Noel Deisch How High Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18 Anonymous Miniature Amusement Devices for the Tiny Tots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19 Walter Franklin Prince The Riddle of Patience Worth . . . . . . 20--22 Archer P. Whallon Science Invades the Farm . . . . . . . . 23--25 F. A. Moss Do you Know how to Get Along with People? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27 J. Bernard Walker Latest of Our Great Bridges . . . . . . 28--29 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Building a Talk-bridge Over the Sea . . 30--31 J. Bernard Walker The Welland Ship Canal . . . . . . . . . 32--33 Anonymous A Romantic Achievement in Industrial Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36 O. M. Kile Measuring the Color of Hay . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous Agriculture in the Tropics . . . . . . . 38--39 Anonymous Forty-one Hours from Raw Materials to the Finished Automobile --- Through Systematic Production Methods . . . . . 40--41 Anonymous Killing Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43 Anonymous What Will the Next Ten Years Reveal in Yucatan? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44 Anonymous Branding Timber by Machinery . . . . . . 50--50
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 92--92 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 126--129 Albert G. Ingall \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 132--136 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--142 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 143--149 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 150--152 Henry C. Trundle Science and Money . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 155--155 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 156--156 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 156--158 Ralph Waldo Miner A Trip to the Bottom of the Sea . . . . 87--89 Francis A. Tondorf Guesswork --- or Science? . . . . . . . 90--91 Anonymous Raising Caligula's Sunken Galleys . . . 93--93 Henry S. Washington The Testimony of the Jades . . . . . . . 94--95 Henry Norris Russell The Fondest Dreams of the Astronomer . . 96--96 Anonymous If House Flies Were as Big as Birds . . 97--97 Milton Wright The Education of a Parachute Jumper . . 98--100 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- III . . . . . 101--103 J. Bernard Walker Giant Floating Aircraft Bases . . . . . 104--105 H. H. Sheldon The Physics of Golf Balls . . . . . . . 106--107 Anonymous Air --- driven Sea Sled Has Shallow Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108 Albert C. Ingalls The Great Earth--Moon Catastrophe . . . 109--109 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio and the ``Black'' Sun . . . . . . 110--111 N. A. Parkinson The Latest Member of Our Textile Family 112--114 Anonymous Scientific Accuracy a Commercial Necessity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115 M. R. Harrington Ancient Salt Mines of the Indians . . . 116--117 Anonymous The Automobile Accident Problem Analyzed 118--118 Anonymous A Monster that Answers a Finger's Touch 119--119 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 120--121 Herbert O. Warren A Treasure Island in the Pacific . . . . 122--123 J. Bernard Walker The Panama Canal Today . . . . . . . . . 124--125 Anonymous Types of Modern Bridges . . . . . . . . 130--130 Anonymous Paper Sculpture . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 172--172 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 206--208 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 209--221 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--225 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 226--232 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 232--232 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 233--234 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 237--237 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 237--239 Gladys Thompson American Building Methods in Greece . . 166--168 Anonymous French trans-African Expedition . . . . 169--169 J. Reid Moir Was the Cave Man a House-builder? . . . 170--171 Anonymous Fire-escape for Bed-ridden Hospital Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173 Henry Norris Russell A Twenty-Five Foot ``Eye'' . . . . . . . 174--175 Anonymous A New Chapter in Electrical Engineering 176--177 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Acres of Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- IV . . . . . 180--181 H. L. Shapiro The Romance of the Norfolk Islanders . . 182--184 Anonymous Reclaiming Three Million Acres of ``Darkest Africa'' . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185 H. H. Sheldon A Distinctly New Rectifier . . . . . . . 186--187 Nell Ray Clarke Are we Over the Pole? . . . . . . . . . 188--189 Raymond H. Wallace Plants Grow in Air-tight Containers . . 190--191 Anonymous Beacons of Safety . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193 Anonymous Fingerprints as Identification Marks in Ancient Greece --- a Brief for Early Trade-marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194 Anonymous A Zeppelin Express Cruiser . . . . . . . 195--195 Anonymous Metal versus Fabric . . . . . . . . . . 196--197 J. Bernard Walker What Lowered the Great Lakes . . . . . . 198--199 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 200--201 Anonymous Four Interesting Members of the Reptile Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202 Anonymous Huge Gold Dredges of the West . . . . . 203--203 Anonymous Snow-white Marble of Carrara Still the Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 252--252 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 286--288 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 289--290 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 300--300 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 301--305 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--310 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 311--314 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 316--316 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 316--318 David Starr Jordan Cold Lights of the Sea . . . . . . . . . 247--248 Anonymous The Direful Scourge Called ``Hail'' . . 249--249 Paul R. Heyl The Wonder of the Commonplace . . . . . 250--251 Henry Norris Russell Redetermining the Velocity of Light . . 253--253 J. Bernard Walker The ``America's'' Cup Defenders . . . . 254--256 Edward Ellsberg The Salvage of the ``S-51'' . . . . . . 257--259 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Amateurs Find Marconi was Right . . . . 260--261 Anonymous Important Discoveries Made by Archaeologists at Leptis Magna, in Tripolitania, the Italian Possession on the South Shore of the Mediterranean Sea 262--263 T. D. A. Cockerell Hunting Fossil Insects . . . . . . . . . 264--265 Nell Ray Clarke Guinea Pigs of Motordom! . . . . . . . . 266--267 Louis S. Treadwell Clean Comfort in the Home . . . . . . . 268--269 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- V . . . . . . 270--271 Albert G. Ingalls Little-known Ice Ages of Great Antiquity 272--273 Frank W. Skinner Huge Job of Solid Rock Excavation . . . 274--275 J. L. Miller The Scourge of the Japanese Beetle . . . 276--277 Richard Swann Lull Yale's Great New Museum of Evolution . . 278--279 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 280--281 Grafton Tyler Brown What Asthma and Hay-fever Are . . . . . 282--283 Anonymous World's Largest Sewage Disposal Problem 284--285
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 332--332 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 365--368 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 370--370 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--385 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 386--390 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 390--390 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 391--394 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 397--398 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 398--399 Hector C. Bywater The Treaty Cruiser --- is it Worth While? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--328 Anonymous Parachute Carries Air plane to Earth . . 329--329 Karl T. Compton The Excited States of Atoms . . . . . . 330--331 Henry Norris Russell Mars Again Our Neighbor . . . . . . . . 333--333 Harold J. Cook The Antiquity of Man in America . . . . 334--336 Anonymous A Practical Hand-propelled Vehicle of Unique Construction . . . . . . . . . . 337--337 Alfred P. H. Tawresey Reducing Errors in Navy Signaling . . . 338--339 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Autumn Styles in Radio . . . . . . . . . 340--341 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- VI . . . . . 342--343 A. M. Candy Can Welding Replace the Rivet? . . . . . 344--345 Dorothy E. Fletcher Can We Rid City Air of Dust? . . . . . . 346--347 J. Reid Moir The Fossil Bones of Early Man . . . . . 348--349 Anonymous Latest Lofty Dam in California . . . . . 350--350 Anonymous Giant Testing Machine Pulls 2,800,000 Pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351 S. F. Aaron Classifying the Arthropod . . . . . . . 352--353 Walter Miles When Reading, Your Eyes Move in Jumps 354--356 Anonymous The Romantic Quest of the Iridescent Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357 Anonymous A Power Plant Greater than Niagara or Muscle Shoals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359 Albert A. Hopkins How Death Deals its Cards . . . . . . . 362--363 Anonymous A Sewer as Large as a Three-track Subway 364--364
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 412--412 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 442--444 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 446--446 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 456--456 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--460 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learning to use our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--470 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 474--475 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 475--477 H. Eltringham The Multiple Eyes of Insects . . . . . . 407--408 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 409--409 Henry Norris Russell Eclipsing Variables . . . . . . . . . . 410--410 Anonymous Marvelous Crystal Structures from Cloudland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411 Anonymous The Largest Sundial in the World . . . . 413--413 E. Newton Harvey Luminous Bacteria, the Smallest Lamps in the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--416 Anonymous Will You Travel Safely in the United States? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417 C. P. Burgess New 6,000,000 Cubic-foot Airships for Our Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419 Anonymous A New Tool for the Research Scientist 420--422 Alexander Klemin The \booktitleScientific American Sport-plane Trophy Race . . . . . . . . 423--423 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Edison Glimpsed at Radio in 1875 . . . . 424--425 P. A. Vaile How Science Can Improve Your Golf . . . 426--427 Elizabeth Banks The Development of Children's Toys . . . 428--429 Anonymous Tools and Household Implements of the Ancient Egyptians, Preserved by the Dry Climate, Now Show Us How They Lived . . 430--431 Anonymous How the Nations Will Pay Us their War Debts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--432 Anonymous Peace-time Medals for Heroism and Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--433 Ethel W. Musgrave A Flock of Unique Hybrids . . . . . . . 434--434 Anonymous A Violin Played by Mechanical Hands . . 435--435 Anonymous How 50,000,000 Rabbits Furnish Milady's Furs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437 Anonymous The Chimes of Catalina Island . . . . . 438--438 Nell Ray Clarke How Washington's Garbage Pays Dividends 439--439 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 440--441 A. P. Peck Applied science for the Amateur . . . . 463--465 Anonymous In the Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . 471--473
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--12 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 42--46 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 47--55 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 59--59 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 60--64 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--68 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 69--71 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 76--77 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 77--79 Paul R. Heyl Children of the Sun . . . . . . . . . . 7--8 Henry Norris Russell The Romantic Search for ``Pocket'' Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Walter Franklin Prince Make-believe Telepathy . . . . . . . . . 10--11 G. Elliot Smith The Meaning of the Brain . . . . . . . . 13--16 Milton Wright Inventors Who have Achieved Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17 Edward C. Crossman Science Turns Detective . . . . . . . . 18--21 Charles F. Kettering Applying New ``Yardsticks'' to Automobiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23 A. R. Crook Elephant Hunting in Illinois . . . . . . 24--24 Anonymous Pressed Steel Wheels from I-Beams . . . 25--25 D. H. Killefer Why is a Balloon Tire Efficient? . . . . 28--29 Anonymous A Trip to Boobyland . . . . . . . . . . 30--30 Anonymous Motor Trucks are Aiding Rapid Industrial Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Along the Airways . . . . . . . . 32--33 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- VII . . . . . 34--35 Anonymous Is the Wooden Railroad Tie Doomed? . . . 36--36 Anonymous The Manufacture of Unit Automobile Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous Egypt the Mysterious Beckoned the Tourist 3500 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . 38--39 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 40--41 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 56--56 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 92--92 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 118--122 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 123--128 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 132--136 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 136--136 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 148--149 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 149--150 B. S. Hopkins Building Blocks of the Universe . . . . 87--89 Anonymous A Sport Over Two Thousand Years Old . . 90--90 Oscar Parkes Japan's New Cruisers . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Henry Norris Russell Science Plans a Mass Attack on the Moon's Mysteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 J. Reid Moir Where was the Birthplace of Mankind? . . 94--95 Anonymous Blind Folks ``See'' Lots of Good Times 97--97 Harold J. Shepstone Buried Secrets of the Holy Land . . . . 98--100 Anonymous Testing a Darn to Destruction . . . . . 101--101 H. W. Brooks The Carbonization of Coal at Low Temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104 Milton Wright Inventors who have Achieved Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio's Silver Screen . . . . . . . . . 106--107 Anonymous Tire Rejuvenation System Makes Old Tires New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109 Anonymous Pictures of American Climate . . . . . . 109--109 H. H. Mitchell The Straight and Narrow Path to Normal Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111 Anonymous Two Airplanes Successfully Launched from a Dirigible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112 Anonymous The Motor Coach Aids the Railroad . . . 113--113 L. O. Howard A Great Menace --- The Rising Tide of Insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 116--117 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 129--130 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 141--143 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 164--164 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 190--193 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 195--199 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learning To Use Our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--208 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--214 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 214--214 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 215--217 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 222--223 A. P. Peck The Signal Corps of the 'Movies' . . . . 159--161 Hugh S. Taylor The Simplest Element of All . . . . . . 162--163 Henry Norris Russell Doubtful Newspaper Astronomy . . . . . . 165--165 Heinz Rosenberger Micro Motion-Pictures . . . . . . . . . 166--167 Anonymous How a Great Museum Serves the Public . . 168--169 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- VIII . . . . 170--172 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Marconi Strides Onward . . . . . . . . . 174--175 Milton Wright Inventors who have Achieved Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176 Anonymous New Glass Allows Ultra-violet Rays to Enter the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177 J. Bernard Walker Railroad Changes River's Course . . . . 178--179 Harold J. Shepstone Psalmist's Spring to Supply Jerusalem with Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181 Anonymous How is Your Automobile Radiator Made? 182--183 Anonymous Carl E. Akeley --- Naturalist, Explorer and Inventor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185 Lee McCrae Solar Whirlwinds Made Visible . . . . . 186--186 Anonymous Swamps Reclaimed by Weed-cutting Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187 Anonymous New British Tanks, Field Artillery, and Military Cars with Road Wheels, and with Tracks for Rough Ground . . . . . . . . 188--189 Anonymous Deep-sea Fish Angle for their Own Kind 194--194 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 200--201 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 218--220 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 221--222
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 236--236 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 262--266 Albert C. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 267--273 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learning to use Our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--282 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--286 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 286--288 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 288--288 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 292--293 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 293--294 William K. Gregory Missing Links of the Gobi Desert . . . . 231--232 Henry Norris Russell The Next Great Comet is about Due . . . 233--233 David Starr Jordan Fishes that Can Shock You . . . . . . . 234--235 Hugh Hammond Bennett Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- IX . . . . . 237--239 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 240--241 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. ``Hello, London --- New York Calling'' 242--243 Anonymous ``Metropolis'' --- A Movie Forecast of the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245 Edgar Lloyd Hampton Transporting a River Over Mountains . . 246--248 Milton Wright Inventors who have Achieved Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249 Anonymous Twentieth-Century Railroad Building . . 250--251 J. Bernard Walker The Reconstructed Battleship ``Texas'' 252--252 William Allen The Escape of ``Old Ironsides'' . . . . 253--253 Alfred Gradenwitz Sensitive Relays Without Magnets . . . . 254--255 Anonymous Airplane ``Eyes'' Used for Map Making 256--256 Anonymous Huge Lifting Magnets in Industry . . . . 257--257 Anonymous Our Railway Accidents Analyzed . . . . . 258--259 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 260--261 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 274--276 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 289--291
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 308--308 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 334--338 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 339--343 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learing To Use our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--347 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--357 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 358--360 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 364--365 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 365--367 John L. Von Blon Alaska is Mapped from the Air . . . . . 303--305 J. Reid Moir Flint --- Prehistoric Man's Steel . . . 306--307 Henry Norris Russell The Hottest Thing on Earth . . . . . . . 309--309 John Redfield Teaching Music to the Deaf . . . . . . . 310--311 H. M. Towne Measuring One 100,000,000th of a Second 312--314 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 315--315 Anonymous Golf Clubs from the Forest to the Links 316--317 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Does Static Come from the Sun? . . . . . 318--319 Anonymous Australia Advances --- Her New National Capital will be Occupied in May . . . . 320--321 George T. Moore Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323 Austin C. Lescarboura Yardsticks of Sound . . . . . . . . . . 324--326 Milton Wright Inventors Who have Achieved Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Anonymous Irrigation Water and Electric Power from Same Storage Reservoir . . . . . . . . . 328--329 F. T. Humphrey A Serious Plague of Mice in California 330--331 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 332--333 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 348--350 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 361--363
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 380--380 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392 Albert A. Hopkins Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home 408--410 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 411--415 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 416--416 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 424--426 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--431 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 431--431 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 434--436 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 435--437 T. D. A. Cockerell The Cost of Oranges . . . . . . . . . . 375--377 A. P. Peck Giving a Voice to Motion Pictures . . . 378--379 Henry Norris Russell Three Coming Events . . . . . . . . . . 381--381 Franklin S. Clark Whaling Out of the Golden Gate . . . . . 382--384 Louis S. Treadwell Practical Television Demonstrated . . . 385--385 J. Bernard Walker A Two Hundred Mile-Per-Hour Car . . . . 386--387 H. H. Sheldon Physicist and Golf Expert Still Disagree 388--389 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio's New Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . 390--391 Anonymous Shears and Scissors Ninety Percent Hand-made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393 Anonymous Models Show Ancient Egyptian Life and Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394 F. C. Livingstone Turbine Locomotive for British Railroad 395--395 Milton Wright Inventors Who have Achieved Commercial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396 Anonymous Blind Editor Publishes Journal for the Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- X . . . . . . 398--400 Guy E. Mitchell Caves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--403 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings 404--405 John L. Von Blon Sea Elephants Preserved for Posterity 406--407 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 421--423 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 432--433
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 17--17 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Albert A. Hopkins Household Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 60--61 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 64--68 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 72--73 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 86--88 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 90--90 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 92--93 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 92--95 J. Bernard Walker Super-Guns for Our Army . . . . . . . . 9--13 Russell W. Porter Watching the Earth Turn Over . . . . . . 14--16 Henry Norris Russell Is Mars Habitable? . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21 A. V. Kidder American Farmers of 4000 B.C . . . . . . 22--24 D. T. MacDougal Sunburn in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . 25--27 Anonymous Primitive Irrigation Methods Still Compete With Modern Machinery . . . . . 28--29 D. H. Killeffer A Microbe in International Affairs . . . 30--32 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- VII . . . . . . 33--35 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. When the President Broadcasts . . . . . 36--38 Anonymous Small Balloons Provide New Sport . . . . 39--39 Charles F. A. Mann America's Longest Tunnel . . . . . . . . 40--42 P. W. Bridgman Stupendous Pressures . . . . . . . . . . 43--45 Anonymous The Wanderings of an Oil Well . . . . . 46--47 George H. Dacy Our Agricultural Ellis Island . . . . . 48--51 D. Moreau Barringer, Jr. The Most Fascinating Spot on Earth . . . 52--54 J. Bernard Walker Uncle Sam, Spendthrift --- XI . . . . . 55--57 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 58--59 Anonymous With the Automotive Inventors . . . . . 62--62 Anonymous Inventions in the Engineering Field . . 63--63 D. H. Killeffer In the World of Chemistry . . . . . . . 74--74 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 112--112 Albert A. Hopkins Household Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 160--164 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: Industries from Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learning to Use our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 176--176 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 184--187 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 188--188 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 188--190 W. J. Humphreys Our Worst Storm, the Tornado . . . . . . 105--107 F. A. Moss and T. Hunt Are You Socially Intelligent? . . . . . 108--110 Anonymous Novelties in Automotive Transportation 111--111 Anonymous Painting Mile-Long Cable Made Easy . . . 113--113 Harold J. Cook New Trails of Ancient Man . . . . . . . 114--117 Henry Norris Russell Cipher Messages of the Stars . . . . . . 118--119 D. McFarlan Moore Scientifically Designed Golf Clubs . . . 120--122 Anonymous Everyman's Locomotive . . . . . . . . . 123--123 A. V. Hill Are Athletes Machines? . . . . . . . . . 124--126 A. P. Peck Motion Pictures Record Jungle Life . . . 127--129 Anonymous Stone Cast Like Iron . . . . . . . . . . 130--131 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio's Goliath . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133 Arthur Woodward The Conquest of the Everglades . . . . . 134--136 Mandus E. Bridston Fish Elevator Aids Spawning . . . . . . 137--137 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 138--139 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- VIII . . . . . 140--142 Anonymous Sky-Painting with ``Light Gun'' . . . . 143--143 D. Moreau Barringer, Jr. The Most Fascinating Spot on Earth --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146 Anonymous Something New in Bridge Building . . . . 147--147 Robert Insley Air-Cooled Engines for Aircraft . . . . 148--151 Anonymous The Camera as an Aid to the Naturalist 152--153 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 154--155 Anonymous Oysters Now Grown on Trees . . . . . . . 156--156 Anonymous Inventions in the Field of Sport . . . . 158--159 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 206--206 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 252--252 Albert A. Hopkins Household Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 253--253 Albert G. Ingalls The \booktitleScientific American Industrial Digest . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 256--259 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: Industries from Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 274--274 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 279--284 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 285--285 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 285--290 J. Bernard Walker The Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel . . . 201--203 Richard Paget Bart The Invention of Human Speech . . . . . 204--205 Anonymous Flyer Equipped for High-Altitude Work 207--207 Henry Norris Russell Odd Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209 Walter Franklin Prince Specimens from the Telepathic Mine . . . 210--213 Anonymous The June 29th Solar Eclipse in England 214--215 Anonymous A Frenchman's Motor Caravan, a Home on Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216 Anonymous Power Plant to Generate 1,000,000 Kilowatts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217 D. H. Killeffer Ice that Melts to a Gas . . . . . . . . 220--223 Anonymous Building an Airport With Dredges . . . . 223--223 Simon Flexner Sleepy Sickness . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Why Fly Without Radio? . . . . . . . . . 226--229 Anonymous Sloop Versus Schooner . . . . . . . . . 229--229 William K. Gregory Dawn-Man or Ape? . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--233 Anonymous Extracting Snake Venom for Use in Serums 233--234 A. P. Peck Sounds Recorded on ``Movie'' Film . . . 234--237 Anonymous World's Largest Artificial Lake . . . . 237--238 Ernest Flagg The City of the Future . . . . . . . . . 238--241 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- IX . . . . . . 242--244 D. Moreau Barringer, Jr. The Most Fascinating Spot on Earth --- III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--247 Lewis Hobart Kenney What Determines Rowing Speed? . . . . . 247--249 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 250--251 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 264--274
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 304--304 Albert A. Hopkins Household Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 343--343 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 344--344 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 345--349 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: Industries from Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--350 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learning to use our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Radio Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--362 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 362--362 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 372--377 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 379--379 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 379--382 Horace D. Ashton Troglodytes of the Desert . . . . . . . 297--299 David Starr Jordan Mikimoto and the Culture Pearl . . . . . 300--302 Anonymous A Modern Man-Made Gave . . . . . . . . . 303--303 Anonymous New Radio Aid to Aircraft Pilots . . . . 305--305 J. Bernard Walker Placing Staten Island on the Map . . . . 306--308 S. R. Williams On the Trail of the Molecule --- I . . . 309--311 Henry Norris Russell Four Sunless Worlds . . . . . . . . . . 312--313 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 314--315 W. W. Coblentz Cold Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317 Anonymous In the Workshop of the Scientists . . . 318--319 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. A Radio Pioneer Steps Onward . . . . . . 320--322 Anonymous Out of the Silence Comes a Voice . . . . 323--323 Martha Miller Bliven Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--327 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- X . . . . . . . 328--329 E. H. Lockwood 400,000,000 Horsepower! . . . . . . . . 330--332 Anonymous Piano Instruction aided Electrically . . 333--334 Ernest Flagg The City of the Future --- II . . . . . 335--337 Anonymous Speeding up the Moffat Tunnel . . . . . 338--339 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 340--341 Anonymous Outward Bound on the ``Ile de France'' 342--342 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 400--400 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 438--439 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 441--443 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings . . . . . . . 444--444 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 468--471 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 475--475 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 477--477 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 477--480 Harold J. Shepstone Head Hunters of Burma . . . . . . . . . 393--396 Paul R. Heyl Muscles Built the Pyramids . . . . . . . 396--398 Anonymous Motor-bus Transportation De Luxe . . . . 399--399 Anonymous World Events from Flashing Sign . . . . 401--401 Henry Norris Russell ``How do they Know'' . . . . . . . . . . 402--403 W. E. Bailey Evolution of the Human Eye . . . . . . . 404--406 Anonymous Safety at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408 Anonymous Nobility at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409 J. Bernard Walker Building for the Ages . . . . . . . . . 410--413 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- XI . . . . . . 414--415 Leon Augustus Hausman Conservation or Extinction? . . . . . . 416--417 Anonymous A Monumental Bridge . . . . . . . . . . 418--420 Russell W. Porter A Simple Study in Optics . . . . . . . . 421--421 Anonymous Recording the Soul of Piano Playing . . 422--423 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. What is New in Radio . . . . . . . . . . 424--426 Anonymous Life-boats Made Safer . . . . . . . . . 427--427 H. Austin Taylor New Lights for Old . . . . . . . . . . . 430--432 S. R. Williams On the Trail of the Molecule --- II . . 433--435 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 436--437 Albert A. Hopkins Culinary Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 440--440 D. H. Killeffer Industries from Atoms . . . . . . . . . 446--447 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 448--448 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Strays from the Ether . . . . . . . . . 450--468
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 496--496 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--521 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting . . . . . 532--533 Anonymous Household Inventions . . . . . . . . . . 534--534 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: The \booktitleScientific American Digest 535--538 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Learning to use our Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--540 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: Industries from Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--542 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Strays From the Ether: Strays from the Ether . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--548 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail . . . . . . . . . . 554--557 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 558--558 Milton Wright Commercial Property News . . . . . . . . 569--569 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 569--572 E. H. Wilcox Lightning Prevention . . . . . . . . . . 489--492 L. H. Dudley Buxton Pre-Sumerian Man . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495 S. R. Winters Life-Saving Airplanes . . . . . . . . . 497--499 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. The Giant of Broadcasting . . . . . . . 500--502 Anonymous Great Britain's Mechanised Army . . . . 503--503 H. J. Lutz How Nature Conquers . . . . . . . . . . 504--505 Henry Norris Russell The Stars of the Manger . . . . . . . . 506--507 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 508--509 Charles F. A. Mann Water --- the Modern Aladdin . . . . . . 510--512 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- XII . . . . . . 513--515 Anonymous The ``Movie'' Theater up-to-Date . . . . 516--517 Anonymous Scandinavian Six-meter Yachts Win . . . 518--518 Anonymous The New Modern Foundry Arrives . . . . . 519--519 C. Bond Lloyd Which foot supports a Golfer's Weight? 522--523 Robert H. Gault Learning Language by its Feel . . . . . 524--525 J. Bernard Walker The Post-War Navies . . . . . . . . . . 526--528 Anonymous Miracles Made to Order . . . . . . . . . 529--529 Anonymous ``Old Ironsides'' in Dry Dock . . . . . 530--530 Harold Bastin Do Insects feel Pain? . . . . . . . . . 531--531 A. P. Peck Applied Science for the Amateur . . . . 543--545 Anonymous Index to Volume 137 --- July--December, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--575
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 16--17 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: A New Automatic Blood Pressure Instrument, Disease of the Joints, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting: Typewriter Copy Guide, Bird Bath Lawn Sprinkler, and more . . . . . . . . . . 52--53 Anonymous Household Inventions: Washing Bench, Bottle Cork with Spray Nozzile, and more 54--54 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: Roller Bearings End Jerking to Start Trains, Is the ``January Thaw'' a Scientific Fact?, and more . . . . . . . 55--60 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Spring Safety Stick, ``Time of Flight'' Clock, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Strays From the Ether: High Speed Attained by Marconi Beam, Battery Receivers can be Electrified, and more 64--66 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: A New Lead Hazard, Wood Pulp Shot from Guns, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--73 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 74--76 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail: Partners Make Telescope, Speaking of the Weather, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83 Milton Wright Commercial Property News: Bringing Inventors and Manufacturers Together, Mere Substitution is not Invention, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98 Herbert J. Spinden Ancient Mayan Astronomy . . . . . . . . 9--12 George O. Noville Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15 William Seifriz How Do the Life Processes Work . . . . . 18--21 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science- Camera Shots of Scientific Events Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . . . . . . . . 22--23 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Marconi Smiles on America . . . . . . . 24--25 Henry Norris Russell A Scientific Ghost Laid . . . . . . . . 26--27 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- XIII . . . . . 28--29 Anonymous Cricket Champions of China . . . . . . . 30--34 Anonymous Underground Canal an Engineering Feat 35--35 W. J. Humphreys The Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37 Anonymous Plate Glass by the Mile . . . . . . . . 40--41 M. Luckiesh Future Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43 Anonymous Will the Steam Automobile Return . . . . 44--45 Anonymous Tropical Telescope Making . . . . . . . 46--47 Anonymous The Origin of Cork Products . . . . . . 48--48 Cyrus N. Ray The Red Hill Artifacts . . . . . . . . . 49--49 Anonymous ``Mountain Climbing'' by Air Cable . . . 50--50 Charles F. A. Mann ``Pay-As-You-Use-It'' . . . . . . . . . 51--51 A. P. Peck A Simulated ``Aura'', An Indoor Tractor Model Plane, and more . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 112--113 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129 Albert A. Hopkins Household Inventions: Thermal Refrigeration, Automatic Electric Range, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Rainy Day Splash Guards, Metal Tobacco Pouch, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: Telephotographs Used Mostly by Business Men, California Steam Wells Examined by Scientists, and more . . . . . . . . . . 157--159 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Playing with the Airstream, Astronomical Navigation, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: Preventing Lime Deposits in Water Mains, New Solders Suggested, and more . . . . . . . . . . 162--162 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Strays From the Ether: Antenna Pointers, Beethoven Popular with Radio Owners, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Hydroelectric Fuel, Electrolytic Zinc in France, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 172--172 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: A Fading Dream, Does Cone Loudspeaker Need Wide Surface?, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail: Two More Amateur's Telescopes, Race-track Problem Attracts Wide Attention, and more . . . . . . . . 176--179 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Airship Gas Source Seen in Atmosphere, New Method of Clay Pipe Manufacture, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--182 Milton Wright Commercial Property News: The Patent Office is Falling Behind, Carpenters and Free Masons, and more . . . . . . . . . 187--191 T. H. (``Doc'') Kinkade Tuning Up Transatlantic Motors . . . . . 105--107 Herbert J. Spinden In Quest of Ruined Cities . . . . . . . 108--111 Josephine E. Tilden Our Richest Source of Vitamins . . . . . 114--117 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 118--119 Henry Norris Russell Has the Universe a Limit? . . . . . . . 120--121 Charles W. Geiger America's Greatest Water-wheel . . . . . 122--124 Anonymous A Crusader's Fortress Excavated . . . . 125--127 Paul Griswold Howes The Much Maligned Bat . . . . . . . . . 130--131 Anonymous Oil Tanks Moved by Floating . . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous Filling in the Zuyder Zee . . . . . . . 133--133 Milton Wright Successful Inventors --- XIV . . . . . . 134--135 D. H. Killeffer ``Hot Dogs'' de Luxe . . . . . . . . . . 136--137 James Millen Weighing with Radio . . . . . . . . . . 138--139 F. D. McHugh Faster Motor Boats . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140 Anonymous Machine Makes Million Bottles a Week . . 141--141 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. The Index to Radio's Future . . . . . . 142--143 J. Bernard Walker Curbing the Mississippi . . . . . . . . 144--146 Anonymous The Sewers of Paris . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Nell Ray Clarke Uncle Sam Raises Bugs . . . . . . . . . 148--150 Bailey Willis Growing Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 208--209 Morris Fishbein and M. D Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231 Albert A. Hopkins Inventions New and Interesting: Porcelain Socket, New Pullman Bag, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Household Inventions: Safety Jug, Polishing Mitten, and more . . . . . . . 251--251 Albert G. Ingalls \booktitleScientific American Digest: Biologist Calls Coffee Beneficial Beverage, Swapping Cactus for Pineapple, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--256 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Large Plane Orders, Ingenious Wing Folding, and more 257--260 D. H. Killeffer Industries From Atoms: Potash from the Dead Sea, Distilled Water by Electrolysis, and more . . . . . . . . . 261--264 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Strays From the Ether: New Power Tube has Economical Filament, Reflectors are Efficient, and more . . . . . . . . . . 268--272 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Ferric Hydroxide as an Adsorbent, Hydrogen Ion Concentration of Cheese, and more . . . 273--273 Anonymous In the Editor's Mail: England's First Bicycle, From the Candle to Electricity, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--277 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Evolution Reversed by Cornell Scientist, Sheet Steel Manufacture, and more . . . 278--281 Milton Wright Commercial Property News: Analogous Arts, Trademarks in The Philippines, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--287 R. W. Wood Sounds that Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204 Paul R. Heyl Weighing the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207 Edward C. Schmidt High-Pressure Steam in Locomotives . . . 210--213 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . . . . . 214--215 D. C. Davies Unearthing the Past at Kish . . . . . . 216--218 John T. Rowland The ``Why'' of the ``S-4'' Disaster . . 219--221 Anonymous A Smaller, Light-Weight Diesel . . . . . 222--223 Henry Norris Russell Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225 Walter Miles How Fast Can You ``Get Away''? . . . . . 226--229 Herbert J. Spinden Deciphering Mayan Mysteries . . . . . . 232--234 Frank Thone New Discovery Speeds Up Evolution . . . 235--235 Albert A. Hopkins A Modern Castle of Business . . . . . . 236--238 T. H. (``Doc'') Kinkade Tuning-Up Transatlantic Motors --- II 239--241 Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. Wanted --- A Radio Fan's Paradise . . . 242--243 Anonymous California Amateurs Make Telescopes . . 244--245 A. P. Peck Television Enters the Home . . . . . . . 246--248 Oliver M. Sayler Theater Delays Shortened . . . . . . . . 249--249 A. P. Peck Outdoor Tractor Model Airplane, Golf-Ball Marking, and more . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 304--305 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--329 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Pocket Ash Tray, Stored Heat Bag, and more . . 346--346 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Note for Telescope Enthusiasts, Diesel Ship Tests Show Good Results, and more 348--352 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: ``Los Angeles'' Lands on ``Saratoga'', Architecture and Airport, and more . . . 354--356 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Synthetic Ammonia, Baffling the Bootlegger by Catalysis, and more . . . . . . . . . . 358--359 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Transmitting License Fee Proposed, Aviation and Radio, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--368 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Compressed Gas as Motor Fuel, Celluloid-Rubber Nuptials, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374 Anonymous Learning to Use Our Wings: Imperial Airways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378 Anonymous Commercial Property News: The Turnover in Toast, Where Registration is Obligatory, and more . . . . . . . . . . 379--383 David Starr Jordan Sharks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300 Ernest O. Lawrence and J. W. Beams What is Light? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--303 Bailey Willis World Earthquake Belts . . . . . . . . . 306--309 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 310--311 J. Reid Moir New Evidences of Ancient Man . . . . . . 312--313 Howard McLellan Japanese Bank Defies Attack . . . . . . 314--316 Anonymous Comfort in Sleeping Cars . . . . . . . . 317--317 Anonymous Hydraulic Control of Machine Tools . . . 318--319 Milton Wright An Inventor Finds Work is Play . . . . . 320--321 Henry Norris Russel How Old is the Earth? . . . . . . . . . 322--323 Anonymous Panama Canal Needs More Water . . . . . 324--325 Anonymous Herculaneum is Being Freed from her Mantle of Mud . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327 Herbert J. Spinden Thank the American Indian . . . . . . . 330--332 Anonymous A Mountain that Will Fall . . . . . . . 333--333 Anonymous ``R-100'', Latest British Airliner . . . 335--335 Anonymous Safety on our Highways . . . . . . . . . 336--337 Anonymous Simplified Photo-Radio Transmission . . 338--338 Anonymous Co-ordinated Ear and Eye Music . . . . . 339--339 G. H. Estabrooks Facts About Hypnotism . . . . . . . . . 340--341 E. F. Bacon and John W. Wagner Where Perpetual Winter Reigns . . . . . 342--344 Anonymous Motorcycles Go to War . . . . . . . . . 345--345 Anonymous Lawn Shaver, Powerful Pruner, and more 347--347 Anonymous To Polish Small Tubing, Our Readers Contribute, and more . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 400--401 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--425 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Camper's Knife, Eye-Comfort Cards, and more . . . 441--441 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Making Fiber Board from Wood Chips, An Electric Bug House, and more . . . . . . 442--445 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: A Circular Airport, ``Air Service, American Expeditionary Force'', and more . . . . 446--447 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 448--448 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Chemists Still Fail to Rival Rubber Tree, Moth-Proofing Fabrics, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 450--453 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Radio Patents Before Marconi, Light-socket Aerials, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--457 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468 Anonymous Commercial Property News: British Patents in the United States Navy, Unused Patents Will be Strictly Construed, and more . . . . . . . . . . 475--479 P. Ormsby Lennon Mining Your Fountain Pen Tips . . . . . 393--396 James Henry Breasted Recovering New History . . . . . . . . . 397--399 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 402--403 W. F. G. Swann The Earth as a Magnet . . . . . . . . . 404--408 E. L. Chicanot New ``Eyes'' for the Sealing Fleet . . . 409--411 Henry Norris Russell Another Astronomical Puzzle Solved . . . 412--413 A. S. Eve and D. A. Keys Geophysical Prospecting . . . . . . . . 414--417 Anonymous Archery --- The New-Old Sport . . . . . 418--419 Anonymous One-piece Automobile Bodies . . . . . . 420--420 Anonymous Speed Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421 J. Bernard Walker World's Largest Vehicular Tunnel . . . . 422--423 J. Reid Moir Where Nature Imitates Man . . . . . . . 426--427 Richard Rickard Carryl On the Road to Anywhere . . . . . . . . 428--429 Frank Wigglesworth Clarkexo The Significance of Meteorites . . . . . 430--432 Anonymous A Business Man Turns Explorer . . . . . 432--433 F. D. McHugh Pulverized Coal Goes to Sea . . . . . . 434--436 Anonymous Marvels of Lamp and Tube Manufacture . . 436--437 Uthai Vincent Wilcox Rattlesnake Farming . . . . . . . . . . 438--439 Anonymous Driving Practice, Golf Club Press, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440 Anonymous Model Plane that Runs on Compressed Air, Apparatus for High-Frequency Experiments 458--460 Anonymous Lacquer Solvents, New Sources of Cellulose, and more . . . . . . . . . . 464--468
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 496--497 Anonymous Household Inventions: Dust Receiver, Safety Oven Shelf, and More . . . . . . 536--536 Anonymous Inventions: Bumper Lights, Traffic Cop Stop Signal, and More . . . . . . . . . 537--537 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Horn Operates Traffic Lights, A River of Mud, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--543 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Wooden Loudspeaker Horns Return, Sun Affects Wave Routes, and more . . . . . . . . . 544--545 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Airship Design and Fallacies, A Hydro-glider, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--551 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Mill Waste for Mosquito Control, Dangers in Dust, Rust-proofing With Phosphates, and more 552--555 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 556--556 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Methanol from Wood Distillation, Ubiquitous Sand, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--561 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 562--562 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Another ``Smallest'' Electric Motor, Largest Roller Bearings in the World, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--569 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Eskimo Pies are Old, Saved by a Crow, and more . . . 570--572 Irving Brant Forest Lookouts Defy Lightning . . . . . 489--492 M. Luckiesh Men, Atoms, and Stars . . . . . . . . . 493--495 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 498--499 Thomas Gann Slowly the Past Emerges . . . . . . . . 500--501 Anonymous The Invincible March of the Automobile 502--502 A. Hyatt Verrill Who are the Mysterious Bearded Indians? 503--505 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 506--507 A. S. Eve and D. A. Keys Geophysical Prospecting . . . . . . . . 508--511 Henry Norris Russell Sun-spots in Weather Prediction . . . . 512--513 Milton Wright A Business that Lives by Invention . . . 514--516 Leon Legrain Unearthing History at Ur . . . . . . . . 517--519 Charles W. Geiger Why the St. Francis Dam Collapsed . . . 520--522 Anonymous Robinson Crusoes of Science . . . . . . 523--523 Ernest G. Linder Where does Matter Come From? . . . . . . 524--525 L. A. Huguemont Paintings that Shine in Dark . . . . . . 526--527 F. D. McHugh Roller Bearings Smooth the Traveler's Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529 J. Reid Moir Making Flint Implements . . . . . . . . 530--531 Jack W. Jareo Chemicals Destroy Lake Weeds . . . . . . 532--533 Anonymous Industry Depends on Scientific Research 534--535
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous Household Inventions: Detachable Wringer, Dish Washer, and more . . . . . 57--57 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Track-Laying Barrow, Hack-saw for Sheet Metal, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Visualizing Atomic Structures, Tall Buildings Protect Neighbors From Lightning, and more . . . . . . . . . . 64--67 Anonymous Learning to Use Our Wings: The Keystone ``Pirate'', Airship Hangars, and more 68--69 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Removing Bootblack Stains, Oxygen Used to Fight Pneumonia, and more . . . . . . . . . . 70--72 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 74--74 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Perfect Reception in Hawaii, Custom-built Sets, and more 76--79 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 84--84 Anonymous Commercial Property News: A Design is not a Product, Patents in Soviet Russia, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95 Paul R. Heyl What is an Atom? . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12 Anonymous Towing Tests Solve Ship-power Problems 13--13 D. T. MacDougal Can We Grow Our Own Rubber? . . . . . . 16--19 J. Bernard Walker A Mammoth Railroad Fill . . . . . . . . 20--21 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 22--23 Henry Norris Russell Problems of Solar Research . . . . . . . 24--25 J. Reid Moir Man's First Mechanical Achievement . . . 26--27 E. L. Chicanot Muskrats to Order . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30 Edward W. Berry How Old are the Everlasting Hills? . . . 31--33 Robert W. Griffith Unhairing Hides . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35 Anonymous Where the Forest Meets the Laboratory 36--37 Harold J. Cook Glacial Age Man in New Mexico . . . . . 38--40 Anonymous How the Weather Man Outreaches the Airplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 Chas. P. Olivier The Great Siberian Meteorite . . . . . . 42--44 Albert G. Ingalls A Miniature Meteor Crater . . . . . . . 45--45 Guy Kelsey Traffic Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 49--49 A. Hyatt Verrill Who are the Mysterious Bearded Indians? --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52 Anonymous ``Movie'' Illusions --- Their Creation 53--53 F. D. McHugh Is Concrete Better than Cross-ties? . . 54--55 Anonymous Folding Boat, Automatic Bilge Pump, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56 Herbert Otis Warren California's First Oil Well is Still Producing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61 Anonymous London's New Post-office Subway . . . . 62--62 A. P. Peck ``Passing Boulogne!'' . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 108--109 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month In Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127 Anonymous Inventions for the Household: Can Opener, Wooden Candles, and more . . . . 153--153 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Self-Winding Watch, Coin-Slot Golf Game, and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Similar Birthmarks in Five Generations, Motion-Picture Photomicrography Simplified, and more . . . . . . . . . . 156--159 Anonymous Learning to Use Our Wings: Flight Without Power, Towing Gliders, and more 160--162 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Accelerated Test of Paint Checks Exposure, Uncle Sam Extends Helium Production, and more . . 164--166 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Oil-Cooled Tubes, Amateur Regulations, and more . . . . . 168--171 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 172--172 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 176--176 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Safety Pins, Exporters Beware, and more . . . . . . . 187--191 Walter E. Burton Bird Secrets Revealed By Bracelets . . . 105--107 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science --- Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 110--111 G. Elliot Smith Neanderthal Man Not Our Ancestor . . . . 112--115 Zane Grey Big Game Fishing in New Zealand Seas . . 116--118 Anonymous Giving Scales a Variety of Jobs . . . . 119--119 Henry Norris Russell What Becomes of the Starlight? . . . . . 120--121 Milton Wright Farming Under Paper . . . . . . . . . . 122--124 Anonymous Priest--Professor Conducts Daring Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125 A. G. Cherry Conowingo --- Huge Hydroelectric Plant 128--130 Anonymous The ``Lunch Wagon'' Modernized . . . . . 131--131 George A. Wallis Who Were the Prehistoric Mimbrenos of New Mexico? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133 Milton Wright The Story of the Shade Roller . . . . . 134--135 R. A. Millikan and G. Harvey Cameron The Origin of the Cosmic Ray . . . . . . 136--137 Anonymous Date Growing in the United States . . . 138--139 James R. Randolph Can We Go To Mars? . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142 Anonymous Burning Steel to Form Machine Parts . . 143--143 W. F. G. Swann Three Centuries of Natural Philosophy 144--147 Anonymous Enter Chromium Plating . . . . . . . . . 148--149 Russell W. Porter Sun Dials and Sun Dialling . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 204--205 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219 Anonymous Household Inventions: Apple Corer, Out-of-the-Way Rack, and more . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Tennis Ball Re-Napper, Portable Motor-Driven Air Pump, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: All Welded Gas Holder, Radium Rays Test Flaws In Castings, and more . . . . . . 254--257 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: A Net of Weather Stations, The Bellanca Sesquiplane, and more . . . . . . . . . 258--260 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: The Chemistry of Faded Colors, Causes of Defects in Canned Foods, and more . . . . . . . . . 262--264 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Instrument Tests Radio Reproducers, Grid-Suppressor Value, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--269 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 270--270 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 278--278 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Hooks and Eyes, The Crowded Art of Slot Machines, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--287 Anonymous Recently Patented Inventions: Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285 Clark Wissler Among the ``Blacks'' of Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--203 Anonymous From the Scrap-Book of Science . . . . . 206--207 W. F. G. Swann Three Centuries of Natural Philosophy 208--211 Henry Norris Russell Animating Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213 E. T. Scott Taming a Turbulent Torrent . . . . . . . 214--216 Anonymous Byrd's Proposed Antarctic Route . . . . 217--217 N. H. Goss Naval Adequacy --- I . . . . . . . . . . 220--224 Charles H. Sternberg Extinct Animals of California . . . . . 225--227 Anonymous When Art Replaces Ugliness . . . . . . . 228--230 Milton Wright Rocking Again the Cradle of Flight . . . 231--233 Anonymous In the World's Largest Hotel . . . . . . 234--234 Anonymous Drafting Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235 Elihu Thomson Rendering Visible a Magnetic Field . . . 236--239 James Stokley Three Years Abaft the Mast . . . . . . . 240--243 Frank Byers The Economics of Dirt Farming . . . . . 244--247 Lloyd Llewellyn The Caisson Slipped . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 301--301 Anonymous Inventions for the Household: Salt and Pepper Shaker, Indoor Folding Clothes Rack, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: All Metal Guitars, Marcel Waver, and more 348--349 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Lincoln Highway Signed with Concrete Posts, Locomotive Has Front End Cab, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--352 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Intercollegiate Flying Contests, Popularizing the Glider, and more . . . 354--356 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Movies by Radio, Sweden Heads Europe With 53.6 Radio Sets to Every 1000 People, and more . . . . . 358--360 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Asphalt Emulsion for Curing Concrete, Electro-Plating on Aluminum, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 362--365 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 366--367 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 370--370 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Good to the Last Bite, The Fountain Pen Invention, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--383 C. J. Warden The World of the Dog . . . . . . . . . . 297--299 Anonymous Why the Moon is Apparently Ahead of Its Computed Position . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 302--303 F. D. McHugh Youth Hankers to Fly . . . . . . . . . . 304--307 Henry Norris Russell World Astronomers Meet . . . . . . . . . 308--309 Clyde R. Keith New Languages from Old . . . . . . . . . 310--311 Tassilo Adam The Kubu Forestmen of Sumatra . . . . . 312--316 Anonymous Farming the ``Beefsteak'' Oyster . . . . 317--317 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 318--319 N. H. Goss Naval Adequacy --- II . . . . . . . . . 320--324 Anonymous X-Rays Reveal Diseases of Ancient Egyptians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325 Anonymous Primitive versus Modern Methods of Mint Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327 Albert A. Hopkins Combating the ``Bends'' . . . . . . . . 328--329 W. L. Calver Exploring in Palestine and Transjordania 330--333 John F. Rider Why Is a Radio Soprano Unpopular . . . . 334--337 George H. Knibbs The Menace of Increasing Population . . 338--340 Anonymous Motor Sleeping Coach . . . . . . . . . . 341--341 Herbert Otis Warren Up Snow-clad Peaks . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343 Anonymous One Machine Fills a Huge Plant . . . . . 344--345
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 398--399 Anonymous Inventions for the Household: Hydraulic Drain Pump, Cookery Parchment, and more 440--441 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Lawn Rake, Iceless Water Cooler, and more . . 442--443 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Lightning Stroke Electrocutes Tree, Safeguarding an Oil Tanker, and more . . 444--446 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Developing Motion Pictures in the Air, Parachutes for the Entire Plane, and more . . . . . 448--451 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Tiny Tablet Sterilizes Drinking Water, Dust Induces Rain, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--455 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Tracing the Radio Echo, First Paid Radio Message, and more 456--459 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 460--461 Hentry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 466--466 Anonymous Commercial Property News: The Court Learns About Hooks and Slices, Lincoln and Invention, and more . . . . . . . . 476--480 Tassilo Adam The Orang Lahut . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--396 Anonymous World's Largest Electrically-Propelled Passenger Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 400--401 Donald A. Laird There is a Lot to Just Sitting or Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--404 Anonymous It Reknits Hosiery . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405 Paul R. Heyl Wave Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--408 Charles W. Geiger and Ruth Sabichi San Francisco's Memorial Museum . . . . 409--411 P. Cormac Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--415 Henry Norris Russell Asteroid Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417 N. H. Goss Naval Adequacy --- III . . . . . . . . . 418--422 Anonymous ``Movie'' Film as Aid to Banking . . . . 423--423 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 424--425 Oliver B. Finn The Brace and Bit Plant . . . . . . . . 426--427 James R. Randolph Speeding Up a Railroad Yard . . . . . . 428--429 G. Kingsley Noble Creatures of Perpetual Night . . . . . . 430--432 V. I. Cooper Stocking Up An Expedition's Larders . . 433--435 J. Reid Moirs Did Old Stone Age Man Inhabit Ireland? 436--438 Anonymous Co-operation Extends Hospital's Scope 439--439
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 495--495 Anonymous Household Inventions: Insect Controller, Non-slip Hanger, and more . . . . . . . 536--536 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Fibrous Wall Insulation, Daylight Lamp, and more 537--537 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Evolution of a Tanning by-Product, End-Squaring and Packaging Lumber, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--543 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Research Extends Application of Gas Fuel, Health Hazard in Chromium Plating, and more . . . . . 544--545 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Experiments in Fog Flying, Aviation Safety Congress, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--548 Anonymous Strays From the Ether: Television Abroad, How to Powerize Your Receiver, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--553 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 554--555 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 562--562 Anonymous Commercial Property News: The Flying Paster, Stopping Leaks in Radiators . . 569--572 James Henry Breasted The Oldest Known Surgical Treatise . . . 489--493 Anonymous A Prehistoric Scene in Mongolia . . . . 494--494 Anonymous From The Scrap-Book of Science . . . . . 496--497 Alexander F. Skutch The Secret of the Bladderwort . . . . . 498--501 Henry Norris Russell Calculating Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503 Lawrence W. Pedrose Wooden Highways that Carry Rivers . . . 504--505 Anonymous New Scientific Paintings Outline The Earth's History . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507 Donald A. Laird Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--510 Anonymous Engine Ingenuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511 E. L. Chicanot The New North . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--515 Paul Griswold Howes Anomaly Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--518 N. H. Goss Naval Adequacy --- IV . . . . . . . . . 519--523 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 524--525 P. Cormac Wheels --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--528 Anonymous A Monumental Stone Forest . . . . . . . 529--529 Earle E. Schumacher Spectrographic Analysis . . . . . . . . 530--531 Charles W. Geiger Some Unique Methods Of Dam Construction 532--533 F. D. McHugh Our Latest Peace Insurance . . . . . . . 534--535 Anonymous Locomotive, Climbing Tractor, and more 538--539
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 14--15 Anonymous Of Interest to Motorists: Ice Cream Delivery Truck, Fender Repairer, and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: A Pin at a Time, Rapid Staplers, and More . . . . 62--63 Anonymous Inventions for the Household: Dress Envelope, Egg Kettle, and More . . . . . 64--64 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: A Pleasure-Car Snow-Plow, Cage Experiment Proves Borer Can be Controlled, and more 65--69 Anonymous Learning to Use Our Wings: Model Aircraft, Aviation in Central America 70--73 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: By-Product Process Has Almost Supplanted Beehive Coke Ovens, Methane as Successor to Present Manufactured Gas, and more . . . 74--77 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 78--78 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 80--82 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in January . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Ideas Are Not Patentable, Profits in Cinders, and more 92--95 Chester A. Reeds Belching Cauldrons of the Earth . . . . 9--13 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 16--17 Emma Reh Stevenson What is Life? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Henry Norris Russell Where to Put It? . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21 F. D. McHugh Railroads Turn to the Highways . . . . . 22--23 Milton Wright and Joseph J. Schermack Robots for Salesmen . . . . . . . . . . 24--26 Anonymous Wood Gases for Motors . . . . . . . . . 27--27 C. Binkley Do the Records of Science Face Ruin? . . 28--30 J. C. Mclennan The Mystery of the Green Line . . . . . 31--33 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 34--35 Anonymous Adventurous Archeology . . . . . . . . . 36--37 N. H. Goss Naval Adequacy --- V . . . . . . . . . . 38--42 Anonymous Saving the Scraps . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43 Anonymous Your Next Automobile . . . . . . . . . . 44--47 P. Cormac Wheels --- III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--51 Anonymous Noise Exclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52 Anonymous Long Bridge Shortens Coastal Route . . . 53--53 Anonymous Niagara Should be Saved . . . . . . . . 54--55 Heinrich Ries The Origin of Petroleum . . . . . . . . 56--59 Anonymous Contented Animals have a Home-like Zoo 60--60
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 108--109 Anonymous Inventions for the Household: Household Inventions --- Paring Hook, Flower Holder, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Lafayette Dam Failure, The 1928 West Indies Storm, and more . . . . . . . . . 162--165 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: ``Self-Resource'' for Gas-Filled Mines, Novel Drying Trick Applied in Dynamite Manufacture, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: The Chicago Air Show, ILA, and more . . . . . . . . 168--171 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 172--172 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 174--178 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in February . . . . . . . . 178--178 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Are We Slowing Down?, Employers' Shop Rights, and more 187--191 Anonymous The Clean and Honest Eskimos . . . . . . 105--107 Arthur H. Compton What Things are Made of --- I . . . . . 110--113 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 114--115 A. E. Buchanan, Jr. Chemical Alarm Clocks Arouse Sleepy Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117 Milton Wright A Use for Everything . . . . . . . . . . 118--120 Anonymous We Offer a Medal for Safety at Sea . . . 121--123 Morris Fishbein The Month In Medical Science . . . . . . 124--125 H. E. Anthony With ``Fuzzies'' After Ibex . . . . . . 126--129 Anonymous Picturing Skill in Golf . . . . . . . . 130--131 Henry Norris Russell The Hunt for the Hub of the Universe . . 132--133 Anonymous In The Birthplace of Pure Iron . . . . . 134--136 Alert G. Ingalls The ``Sinking'' Tower of Pisa . . . . . 137--137 Anonymous A Pre-cast Seven Mile Bridge . . . . . . 138--141 Anonymous Type-setting by Telegraph . . . . . . . 141--141 Anonymous A British Destroyer Leader --- We Have None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143 J. Reid Moir The Romans in East Anglia . . . . . . . 144--146 Anonymous Sing Sing Past and Present . . . . . . . 147--147 Alexander Klemin Investing in Aviation . . . . . . . . . 148--153 Anonymous World's Largest Hall Seats 40,000 People 154--156 Anonymous Salt from the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 Anonymous Work Bench has Built-Tool Chest, One-Piece Hammer: New Saw Blade, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--159
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 237--237 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Single-Leg Table, Lamp Switch And Lighter, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Airplane Design Competition, A New Type of Landing Field, and more . . . . . . . . 258--261 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: World's Largest Steam Locomotive, Britain Plants for New Forests, and more 262--265 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Spontaneous Heating of Coal, Electronic Bombardment Said to Synthesize Rubber, and more . . 266--268 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 270--270 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 272--273 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in March . . . . . . . . . . 279--279 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Patent Office Falls Behind, Safety in Secrecy, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--287 C. E. Rosendahl Inside the ``Graf Zeppelin'' . . . . . . 201--205 Alexander Klemin Planes for Private Flying . . . . . . . 206--215 Henry Norris Russell Does Our Universe Rotate? . . . . . . . 216--217 William Bowie Weighing the Earth From a Submarine . . 218--221 Edmund James How I Built my Glider . . . . . . . . . 222--223 Anonymous Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 224--225 Anonymous Air-Mail Pick Up and Release . . . . . . 226--227 Milton Wright Builders of the Aviation Industry . . . 228--233 Arthur H. Compton What Things are Made of --- II . . . . . 234--236 Armstrong Perry Radio Guides the Airway Traveler . . . . 238--239 Anonymous New York's New Railroad Bus Station . . 240--240 Samuel L. Hoyt Super-High-Speed Alloy . . . . . . . . . 241--241 Anonymous The Devil Motorizes . . . . . . . . . . 244--245 Albert A. Hopkins Aluminum on Trial . . . . . . . . . . . 246--248 Anonymous Seeking the Secrets of Lightning . . . . 249--249 Harden F. Taylor Science in the Distribution of Fish . . 250--252 Anonymous The Jovian Face Changes . . . . . . . . 253--253 G. S. Carraway Drained Tract is New World Netherlands 254--255 Anonymous Folding Service Tray Carried with One Hand, New Coffee Urn, and more . . . . . 256--256
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 325--325 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Filling Station for Pocket Lighters, Houston's Arc-Welded Hangars, and more 346--348 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Planes on the Instalment Plan, Curtiss--Caproni, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--363 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Poison Gas Worse Than a White Elephant, Synthetic Tannin Needed, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--367 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 368--369 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 370--372 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in April . . . . . . . . . . 372--372 Anonymous Commercial Property News: ``Plymouth'' is ``Merely Geographical'', Oil Company Wins ``Parco'' Decision, and more . . . 380--383 Walter S. Hiatt A Factory in the Wilderness . . . . . . 297--300 Anonymous Our Light-Plane Contest . . . . . . . . 301--301 George Ellery Hale Solar Research for Amateurs --- I . . . 302--305 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 306--307 Anonymous A Mountainous Earthen Dam . . . . . . . 308--309 Cornelia H. Dam Exploring the Biblical Beth-shan . . . . 310--313 Anonymous Boston's New ``Madison Square Garden'' 314--315 Henry Norris Russell Quantitative Analysis of the Sun . . . . 316--317 Walter E. Burton Animal Allies of the Physician . . . . . 318--319 Donald A. Laird How People Differ Mentally . . . . . . . 320--321 Friedrich Bergius New Uses for Coal and Wood . . . . . . . 322--324 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 326--327 S. F. Aaron Why do Insects Migrate? . . . . . . . . 328--330 Anonymous Safety for Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331 Anonymous Paper Milk ``Bottles'' . . . . . . . . . 332--333 Frank M. Byers Making the Farm Pay . . . . . . . . . . 334--337 Albert G. Ingalls Ultra-Violet Transmitting Glass --- Has it Made Good? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--343 Anonymous Electric ``Wife Saver'', Stool-Ladder, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--344 Anonymous Ball Cleaner, Arm Support, and more . . 345--345
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 397--397 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Novel Rug for Playing Games, Doorknob Lock, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Extra Wheels on Buses for Greater Safety, Two World's Largest Generators, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--453 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: An Interesting Light Plane, Practical Flying, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456 Anonymous Industries From Atoms: Chemical Effects of a Meat Diet, Improvements Modernize Sulfuric Acid Manufacture, and more . . 457--460 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 462--462 Anonymous The Back Yard Astronomer . . . . . . . . 464--466 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in May . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Lumber Exporters Urged to Use Brand, Inventors and Engineers Lauded, and more . . . . . 476--479 G. A. Persson Have Plants a Heart Beat? . . . . . . . 393--396 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 398--399 F. D. McHugh Where the River Shannon Flows . . . . . 400--403 Leon Legrain New Discoveries at Ur . . . . . . . . . 404--407 Henry Norris Russell Electric Thermometers for the Stars . . 408--409 Robert Stewart Farm-waste Profits: Best Farm Relief . . 410--411 W. D. Puleston Naval Aerologists . . . . . . . . . . . 412--413 Oliver Lodge The New Outlook in Physics . . . . . . . 414--415 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 416--417 Donald A. Cadzow The Vanishing American Indian Medicine-Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--420 Anonymous A New Life-boat for Greater Safety at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422 Anonymous From Bamboo Forests to Fishing Rods . . 423--423 G. M. Barnes The Guns Against the Airplane . . . . . 424--427 Henry W. Hough Putting it Over with Movies . . . . . . 428--429 Cyrus N. Ray New Evidences of Ancient Man in America 430--431 Francis P. Mann Scientific Examination of Paintings . . 432--433 Anonymous Is the Engineer Alert? . . . . . . . . . 434--435 George Ellery Hale Solar Research for Amateurs --- II . . . 436--438 Anonymous The Three Best Light Planes . . . . . . 439--439 Lawrence Wm. Pedrose Mechanical Etching in Wood . . . . . . . 440--440 Anonymous Dog Teams Race in California . . . . . . 441--441 George H. Hamilton Largest Amateur Telescope . . . . . . . 442--443 G. H. Dacy Rag-Picking as Big Business . . . . . . 444--445
Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 493--493 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Top Remover, Floor Polisher, and more . . . 538--539 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Simplified Lenard Ray Tube Gives Science New Tool, ``Squirting'' Cold Copper Into Tubes, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--542 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: The Railroads in Aviation, Accident Analysis, and more 544--546 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Natural Gas Byproducts Find New Uses, White ``Blue-Prints'', and more . . . . . . . 548--553 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 554--555 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in June . . . . . . . . . . 558--558 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Chemistry and the ``Bright Lights'', Corrosion Proofing Gives Dark Colored Surface, and more . . 564--567 Anonymous Commercial Property News: State Royalty Tax Held Illegal, Process for Breaking up Oil Emulsions Denied Patent, and more 568--570 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 570--572 Walter Miles Sleeping with the Eyes Open . . . . . . 489--492 Albert A. Hopkins Modern One-Man Orchestras . . . . . . . 494--496 Anonymous Architects as Room Designers . . . . . . 497--497 Paul R. Heyl The Strangest Thing in Physics . . . . . 498--500 Anonymous ``Firsts'' in Aviation . . . . . . . . . 501--501 Anonymous Work Progresses on Mightiest Bridge . . 502--503 Henry Norris Russell The Highest Known Velocity . . . . . . . 504--505 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 506--507 Karl L. Kithil Prospecting with Artificial Earthquakes 508--511 Morris Fishbein The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . 512--513 Ernest N. Patty The Search for the First American . . . 514--515 Elizabeth Richey Dessez Education Adopts the Motion Picture . . 516--517 Milton Wright Pointers from a Pen Maker . . . . . . . 518--520 Anonymous The Mystery, Desolation, and Grandeur of Death Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--521 Anonymous Egyptian Vandalism 3400 Years Ago . . . 522--524 Anonymous Aerodynamic Wind Mills . . . . . . . . . 525--525 A. P. Peck Television Advances . . . . . . . . . . 526--527 Francis P. Mann Protecting Paintings for Posterity . . . 528--529 Anonymous Roman Engineering Triumphs . . . . . . . 530--532 Anonymous Our Light-Airplane Design Contest . . . 533--533 H. D. Martin Wasteful Cotton Baling Methods . . . . . 534--536 Anonymous Early Indians of Florida . . . . . . . . 537--537 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 556--558 Anonymous Index To Volume 140, January--June, 1929 573--575
Henry Norris Russell Back of Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . 7--7 Anonymous Frontispiece: Slashes in the Mountainside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 12--13 Anonymous Inventions New and Interesting: Simple Tightener for Tennis Nets, Baby Roadster, and More . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Railroad Travel De Luxe, Just What is a Robot?, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: A New Cooling System, The Helicogyre, and more . . . . 70--74 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: Sudden Death of Motorists, How Gilbert, American Composer, Conquered Heart Disease, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--76 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Case Hardening Steel by Nitrogen Treatment, Germany's Chemical Industry Expands, and more . . 77--79 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 80--81 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in July . . . . . . . . . . 84--84 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: New Arc Light Carbons, Grading Cottonseed by Analysis, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92 Anonymous Commercial Property News: For Sleepy Copyright Owners, Foreign Rights to Patents and Trademarks, and more . . . . 92--95 Anonymous Looking Ahead With the Editor . . . . . 5--5 Anonymous Among Our Contributors . . . . . . . . . 5--6 F. D. McHugh From Colombian Mountains to the Sea . . 9--11 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 14--16 J. Reid Moir The Invaders of England . . . . . . . . 16--17 Donald A. Laird The Marvelous Machinery of Muscle . . . 18--20 Anonymous A Ship that Carries Trains . . . . . . . 21--21 William Alphonso Murrill Neglected Mushrooms . . . . . . . . . . 22--23 Ruel Mcdaniel Tailor-Made Weather for Offices . . . . 24--26 Robert Sparks Sky Photography for Lightning . . . . . 27--27 C. Ainsworth Mitchell Estimating the Age of Writing . . . . . 28--29 Henry Norris Russell Earth Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31 Richard Ruedy The Ultra-Violet From the Sun . . . . . 32--34 Anonymous Pumps Disclose Lake Nemi's Secrets . . . 35--35 Lady Mary Heath It is Safe to Fly . . . . . . . . . . . 36--39 Anonymous The World's Highest Dam for Irrigation 39--40 Chester M. Wallace The Stage Goes to School . . . . . . . . 40--42 Henry W. Hough Underground Arteries for Oil and Gas . . 43--46 Annie S. Peck Wings of South America . . . . . . . . . 46--49 Albert A. Hopkins Foiling the Burglar . . . . . . . . . . 50--52 Anonymous Plugging Knot Holes to Salvage Lumber 53--53 S. R. Winters Banditry by Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56 Manfred Curry Why not Propel Boats by Vibration? . . . 56--57 ?. Ernst and ?. Ernst Groupings in the Aviation Industry . . . 58--58 Guy Elliott Mitchell Avocados --- Alligator Pears . . . . . . 59--60 Harold J. Shepstone Walking Around Jerusalem . . . . . . . . 60--61 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 82--84
Henry Fairfield Osborn Back of Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 Anonymous Frontispiece: Reindeer With Horns in the Velvet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 109--109 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: A Bird's Companionate Marriage, Vast Supply of Anthracite Chokes Rivers, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--163 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: How Many Airplanes in 1936?, Cowling to Reduce Drag, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--166 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Danger from X-Ray Films, Fish Tapeworm Infestation, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: What is Petroleum?, Sulfur in Air Attacks Drying ``Wash'', and more . . . . . . . . . . . 170--175 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 178--180 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in August . . . . . . . . . 182--182 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Peroxide also Bleaches Cereals, New Oil for Old . . . 183--187 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Employer Restrained from Using Patent, The Patent Attorney --- Friend or Enemy?, and more 188--191 Carl J. Lomen Reindeer as a Source of Food . . . . . . 105--108 Anonymous Camera Shots of Scientific Events . . . 110--111 Harold McFadden Diatoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114 Anonymous Giant Inhabitants of Our Continent, more than 100,000,000 Years Ago . . . . . . . 115--115 John T. Rowland The `Old Rubber Cow:' The Blimp . . . . 116--118 R. Broom What the World Owes to South Africa . . 119--121 C. W. Geiger Novel Features of the O'Shaughnessy Dat 122--123 Henry W. Hough Our Crop-Destroying Insect Pests . . . . 124--127 Donald A. Laird What is Wrong with Men's Clothing . . . 128--130 Anonymous Catering for the Denizens of the ``Zoo'' 131--131 E. Bade Fungi that Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133 Karl P. Schmidt The Truth about Snake Stories . . . . . 134--136 W. P. Pycraft The Camel's Hump . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137 Henry Norris Russell The Puzzle of the Major Planets . . . . 138--139 Arthur Newton Pack Shooting Wild Life With a `Movie' Camera 140--143 H. Chase Stone Learning to Fly From the Ground up . . . 144--146 Anonymous Off with the Old Antlers and on with the New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 A. A. Hopkins Foiling the Burglar --- II . . . . . . . 148--150 Anonymous More Light on Sumerian Culture . . . . . 151--151 Frank N. Wilson The Loon Poses for the Camera . . . . . 152--153 Gerry Bouwer Pioneering for a Cape to Cairo Highway 154--156 Anonymous Last Call for Light Airplane Design Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 J. H. Merrill The Home of the Honey Bees . . . . . . . 158--159 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Charles G. Abbott Back of Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Anonymous Frontispiece: The Planetarium, and the Lecturer Using an Electric Pointer . . . 200--200 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 205--205 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Our Newest Fighting Tank, Portable Flashing Warning Lamp, and more . . . . 246--247 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: The ``Flamingo,'' a Metal Plane, Gliding in Germany, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Weather and Pain in the Joints, Arsenical Poisoning, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Hydrogenation Comes to Revolutionize Gasoline Production, Organic Substances Reduce Boiler Scale, and more . . . . . . . . . 252--254 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 256--256 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in September . . . . . . . . 262--262 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Rear Admiral Awarded Damages in Torpedo Plane Patent Suit, Sleeve Valve Motor Held Different From Prior Patent, and more . . . . . . 267--271 Anonymous Looking Ahead With the Editor . . . . . 197--197 Levin H. Campbell, Jr. Among Our Contributors . . . . . . . . . 197--197 Albert G. Ingalls Canned Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204 Anonymous From the Scrap-Book of Science . . . . . 206--207 Anonymous Licorice the Versatile . . . . . . . . . 208--210 Anonymous Uncle Sam Gives Us New Money . . . . . . 211--211 Arthur P. Woollacott Why Does an Oil Gusher Gush? . . . . . . 212--213 James Montagnes Charting Canada's Wilderness from the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215 Levin H. Campbell, Jr. Our Army's Mechanized Force . . . . . . 216--219 Henry Norris Russell What Becomes of the Star Light? . . . . 220--221 Reginald M. Cleveland Is the Airplane Diesel Practical? . . . 222--224 Anonymous Silvering the World's Largest Telescope 225--225 Albert A. Hopkins Foiling the Burglar --- III . . . . . . 226--228 Anonymous Last Call for Sea-Safety Contest . . . . 229--229 Walter E. Burton The Zeppelin's American Home . . . . . . 230--233 R. M. Boykin Steam Stages a Come-Back . . . . . . . . 234--236 J. W. Fecker Designing Large Telescopes . . . . . . . 237--239 Anonymous World's Largest Vineyard Uses Machinery and Chemical Control . . . . . . . . . . 240--241 J. Reid Moir Ancient History from Aloft . . . . . . . 242--243 Anonymous Compressed Air Used in Novel Hospital 244--244 Anonymous The ``Heat Makes Cold'' Refrigeration Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Hugo Eckener Back of Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . 281--281 Anonymous Frontispiece: Design for an Ideal Airport, Adequate in all Respects . . . 282--282 Carl Stearns Clancy Aviation: Aviation's Patron Saint . . . 283--286 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 288--290 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: The Autogiro, Learning to Fly, and more . . . . . . . 336--341 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Stone Carving by Sand Blasting, New Synthetic Rubber is Made Largely of Waste Materials, and more . . . . . . . 342--344 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: The Month in Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Sionon a Sugar Substitute, Petroleum Products in Insecticides, and more . . . . . . . . . 348--351 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs: Aviation, Electricity, and more . . . . . . . . . 352--353 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in October . . . . . . . . . 356--356 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Mechanical Wonderland, Hair Waving Apparatus Patented, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 364--367 Anonymous Looking Ahead With the Editor . . . . . 279--279 Dudley W. Knox Among our Contributors . . . . . . . . . 279--280 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 287--287 Earl D. Osborn How the Autogiro Flies . . . . . . . . . 290--292 Anonymous The New Queen of the Sea . . . . . . . . 293--293 Paul Griswold Howes Monkey --- Shines . . . . . . . . . . . 294--297 William E. Arthur How Shall we Design our Airports? . . . 298--301 J. Ferdinand Kayser Razor Blade Science . . . . . . . . . . 302--306 H. B. Miller That `Fatal' Tailspin . . . . . . . . . 307--309 Louis S. Treadwell The ``Lively'' Ball . . . . . . . . . . 310--312 Reginald M. Cleveland What is the Future of Aviation? . . . . 313--315 Henry Norris Russell Meteors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317 Anonymous German Dornier Plane Carries 100 Passengers: Has 12 Engines . . . . . . . 318--319 Captain Dudley W. Knox Naval Reduction and Parity . . . . . . . 320--322 C. C. Wylie A Large Meteor Falls . . . . . . . . . . 323--323 Alexander Klemin American Passenger Air Transport . . . . 324--329 Henry W. Hough Greater Washington Starts to Rise . . . 330--333 Anonymous From the Archeologist's Note Book . . . 334--334 Anonymous The Detection of Fake Antiquities . . . 335--335 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Back of Frontispiece: George Eastman . . 375--375 Anonymous Frontispiece: Sinai, the Sublime Triple-headed Mountain . . . . . . . . . 376--376 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 381--382 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: Device to Prevent Frozen Water Pipes, Self-Locking Bolt and Nut Thread, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--435 Alexander Klemin Learning to Use Our Wings: Handley Page Slot Mechanisms, Certification of Private Lights, and more . . . . . . . . 436--437 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Cheap Aluminum Chloride Now Available, Australian Motorists to Use Gasoline Mixed with Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--441 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: Tobacco Smoking, Iodine Surveys, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 442--445 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 446--447 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in November . . . . . . . . 450--451 Anonymous Learning to Use Our Wings: Physiological Effects of the Spin, American Passenger Air Transport --- II, and more . . . . . 454--459 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Mechanical Method Claims Granted, Joseph Jenks' Petition, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 460--461 Anonymous Patents Recently Issued . . . . . . . . 461--464 Anonymous Looking Ahead with the Editor . . . . . 373--373 Anonymous Among Our Contributors . . . . . . . . . 373--374 F. D. McHugh Ford's Friend Edison . . . . . . . . . . 377--380 Raymond Francis Yates Wall Street and the Research Laboratory 382--384 Anonymous Safe, Fireproof, Steel Scaffolding . . . 385--385 Donald A. Laird Synthetic Sweet Smells . . . . . . . . . 386--389 Anonymous Cleaning Railway Cars . . . . . . . . . 389--389 Anonymous Ice by Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--393 J. Reid Moir The Great Flint Mines of Grime's Graves 394--396 Oscar Parkes Japan's New Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--399 Henry Norris Russell The Puzzles of the Comets --- I . . . . 400--401 Anonymous Press a Button --- There's Your Book . . 402--404 Alexander Klemin American Passenger Air Transport --- II 404--408 Anonymous America's `Cleanest' Industry . . . . . 408--411 Anonymous Amateur Seismology . . . . . . . . . . . 411--413 Paul R. Heyl The Speed Record of the Universe . . . . 414--415 A. Pearson Weighing With Light . . . . . . . . . . 416--418 Anonymous Sardine Packing --- A Growing California Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419 H. J. Payne Supplying the Reptile Leather Demand . . 420--422 Albert G. Ingalls Power From the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 422--425 Bruce McDaniel Praying Trees of the Desert . . . . . . 425--425 Ernest W. Brown Practical Astronomy for Amateurs . . . . 426--428 A. A. Hopkins An Outlawed Industry 'Comes Back' . . . 428--431 Anonymous Unique Regrade Engineering . . . . . . . 431--431 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 448--450
C. Leonard Woolley Back of Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . 471--471 Anonymous Frontispiece: Mousterian Man, Woman, and Infant --- a Race That Became Extinct 472--472 Anonymous Editorials: Our Point of View . . . . . 477--477 Anonymous \booktitleScientific American Digest: A Mammoth's Deformed Wisdom Tooth, Life Saving by Mechanical Respiration, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--527 Anonymous Learning to Use Our Wings: A Radio Altimeter, Instruction in Fog Flying, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Synthetic Resin Improves Lacquers, Powdered Fuels for Engines, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 530--532 Morris Fishbein Medical Science: Liver and Iron in Anemia, Eye Examinations of Children, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--537 Anonymous Current Bulletin Briefs . . . . . . . . 538--539 Henry Norris Russell The Heavens in December . . . . . . . . 542--542 Anonymous Chemistry in Industry: Novel Method for Making Citric Acid, Rust Used in New Base for Paint, and more . . . . . . . . 545--547 Anonymous Commercial Property News: Reward Awaits Inventor of Machine, No Infringement in Old Process for Cleaning Neon Tubes, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--554 Anonymous Index to Volume 141, July--December, 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--559 Anonymous Looking Ahead With the Editor . . . . . 469--469 Lester D. Seymour Among Our Contributors . . . . . . . . . 469--469 David Masters A Scuttled Fleet is Salvaged . . . . . . 473--476 Ida Treat When Reindeer Roamed the Pyrénées --- I 478--481 Anonymous From the Scrap-book of Science . . . . . 482--483 Stratford Corbett An Office Building of the New Era . . . 484--486 A. P. Peck Television's Progress . . . . . . . . . 487--487 Reginald M. Cleveland Giant Airplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--490 Anonymous Award of the \booktitleScientific American Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491 Horace H. F. Jayne Behind the Scenes in Modern Archeology 492--494 Anonymous Timing the Schneider Cup Races: Over 300 Miles Per Hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495 Henry Norris Russell The Puzzles of the Comets --- II . . . . 496--497 Howard T. Cervantes Radio in 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--500 Anonymous Largest Electrified Metal Mine . . . . . 501--501 Anonymous From the Archeologist's Notebook . . . . 502--503 Lester D. Seymour Insuring Safety on Airlines . . . . . . 504--507 J. Reid Moir The Art of Pliocene Man . . . . . . . . 508--509 C. W. Geiger and Ruth Sabichi Esthetic Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 510--512 Anonymous When the Dining-Car Staff Goes to School 513--513 Alexander Klemin American Passenger Air Transport --- III 514--517 A. E. Cripps Wires and Cables for a Great Bridge . . 518--520 Milton Wright Rebuilding a Broken Business . . . . . . 521--523 Anonymous The Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 540--541