Stories by J. F. Springer

A City Without Water

How Winnipeg Brought the Essential Fluid 100 Miles Across a Barren Plain

Preventing the Roll of Ships

Past and Present Schemes for Stabilizing Ships and Why the Gyroscopic Stabilizer Is Practical

The Falsework for a Big Dam

Some Unusual Trestles Employed in This Department of Concrete Construction

The Big Dam on the Little San Diego

A Multiple-Arch Structure of Unusual Height and Some of the Principles Involved in its Construction

The Mississippi's Mouth

What New Orleans is doing to Insure its Permanent Navigability

Canada's Niagara Development

The Details of the Queenston-Chippawa Project now being Pushed Toward Completion

The North Platte Project Today

Music from Glass

Franklin's Harmonica and Other Instruments of the Same Class

Making the Hetch-Hetchy Dam Itself

How California's Big Water Development Is Carried On with Its Own Water

Water Pipes of Wood

The Surprising Permanence and Tightness of This Unusual Construction

Smothering Fire with Bubbles of Gas

How Carbon Dioxide Protects the Oil Tank Against Its Greatest Hazard

A Neat Problem in Hydraulics

How the Delaware River Was Held at Bay During the Construction of the Naval Drydock at Philadelphia

Our Mechanical Eyes

Glass for Optical Purposes, and How It Is Made

Descendants of the Water-Wheel

Installations for Developing Hydroelectric Power upon a Notable Scale

The Twentieth-Century Lumber-Jack

Some of the Machines and Methods Which Were Not at the Disposal of His Grandfather

Baltimore's Tilting Dam

A Structure That Opens Automatically When It Has Backed Up Too Much Water

San Francisco Goes to the Mountains

Some Details of the Lake Eleanor Dam, Part of a Comprehensive Water-Supply Scheme

The Overhead Cable Crossing

Largest Electric Transmission Span in the World, at Three Rivers, Quebec

Pin-Hole Photography

Some New and Pertinent Facts About an Old but Misunderstood Art

Watering Idaho's Desert

A Hundred-Million-Dollar Project Involving two and One-Half Million Acres