Stories by J. Bernard Walker

The Racing Aeroplane of the Future—A Study

A Mammoth Railroad Fill

Original Timber Trestle Is Replaced, First By Steel Bridge, Then By Massive Earth Fill

World's Largest Vehicular Tunnel

Built on Land, Towed to Place, and Sunk, Section by Section

Curbing the Mississippi

Control of the Mississippi--a Stupendous Engineering Work Which Must Be Financed by the Federal Government

The Post-War Navies

How the Overgrown War fleets of the United States and Great Britain were brought down to a Peacetime Basis

Building for the Ages

Built of Large-Size Stone, Bedded in Cement Mortar, St. John's Cathedral Should Be As Lasting As the Pyramids

Placing Staten Island on the Map

Building Three Bridges that will end the Isolation of an Important Section of New York City.

The Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel

A Big Problem of Ventilation, Requiring Nearly Four Million Cubic Feet 0 Fresh Air Per Minute

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--XI

Failure to Develop and Deepen Our Lake and River Systems Causes an Enormous Economic Loss

Super-Guns for Our Army

Ordnance Officer, Chemist and Mathematician Combined Have Doubled the Efficiency of Our Army Ordnance Since the War

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--X

We Have 55,000,000 Potential Horsepower In Our Rivers, of Which We Waste 44,000,000

A Two Hundred Mile-Per-Hour Car

How the Physicist, the Chemist and Wind-tunnel Tests Collaborated in Producing the Car Which Made 203.79 Miles Per Hour On Daytona Beach

The Reconstructed Battleship "Texas"

Blisters Below Water, Heavier Deck Armor, Improved Boilers, Tripod Masts and Larger Cruising Radius, Render the "Texas" a Far More Efficient Ship

Railroad Changes River's Course

By Diverting the Schuylkill River Through an Artificial Channel, the Reading Railroad Eliminates a Long Tunnel and Two River Crossings

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--VIII

Our Virgin Soils Were Formerly Rich in Plant Food. We Have Been Taking This Food Out and Putting Very Little Back, Thus Exhausting the Soil

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--VII

The Threatened Extinction of Some of Our American Game and the Valiant Fight that Is Being Made to Save the Remnant

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--VI

The Destruction of Many of Our Finest Fisheries Has Been Only Less Complete Than the Destruction of Our Forests

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--V

Waste in the Mining, Marketing and Using of Coal, and the Remedy

The "America's" Cup Defenders

What Has Become of the Famous Yachts Which Have Successfully Defended the Cup Since It Was Won 75 Years Ago

What Lowered the Great Lakes

Jupiter Pluvius, Not Chicago, Mainly Responsible for Low Lake Levels