![Almost Brilliant Inventions from 1865 [Slide Show]](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/CD7EEA0B-5555-4700-A25035A77FA9DA73_agenda.jpg?w=275&h=154&fit=crop)
Almost Brilliant Inventions from 1865 [Slide Show]
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
Stories by Daniel C. Schlenoff
Railways and Subways: Building the New Mass Transit
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
70 Years of Important Inventions
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
The Horrors of War: Lusitania Sunk; Poison Gas on the Battlefield
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
Sleek and Sexy Car, 1915
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
An Imaginative View of Saturn from Titan in 1915
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
Earth as a Laboratory; Sun as an Enigma
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
![Medical Technology, 1915 [Slideshow]](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/7A25C472-75F1-4A6F-B1D5E627574A46B1_agenda.jpg?w=275&h=154&fit=crop)
Medical Technology, 1915 [Slideshow]
The science of healing from a century ago
Large Loon Fossil, with Lots of Teeth, 1915
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
A Motorized Single-Wheel Car
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
Engineering and Water, 1914 [Slide Show]
Our technological skill as a society is revealed by how skillfully we engineer the control and use of water.
150 Years Ago: Scientific American Covers Pres. Lincoln Reelection, 1864
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
Remembering Jonas Salk on the 100th Anniversary of Polio Vaccine Developer’s Birth
Routine clinical use of his vaccine forestalled the paralysis and death brought by the dreaded illness
![Engineering and Water, 1914 [Slide Show]](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/1D1ED648-4877-4299-872AD089810FEDFD_agenda.jpg?w=275&h=154&fit=crop)
Engineering and Water, 1914 [Slide Show]
Our technological skill as a society is revealed by how skillfully we engineer the control and use of water
World War I: Naval Technology, 1914 [Slide Show]
A look at the science of naval warfare in the first year of the Great War
![World War I: Naval Technology, 1914 [Slide Show]](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/0A5C3032-EF83-440F-B567DA8AB061967E_agenda.jpg?w=275&h=154&fit=crop)
World War I: Naval Technology, 1914 [Slide Show]
A look at the science of naval warfare in the first year of the Great War
Evolution versus Creation; Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
The Great War in Europe: A Look at World War I
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
The Panama Canal [Slide Show]
August 1914–August 2014
