Stories by Robert G. Skerrett

Ball Bearings and how they are Made

The Tiny but Perfect Spheres that Keep Down the Friction Toll in Modern Machinery

Immunizing Cabbage by Natural Selection

How Nature's Standard Biological Process Is Adopted and Speeded Up by Man

A Key to Many Industries

The New Technique of Die-Cutting, and the Place It Holds in Our Factories

The "Lusitania" and the Submarine Salvor

Some of the Schemes Proposed for Dealing with the War's Most Famous Wreck

Eliminating Three Miles of Grade Crossings

How the Lackawanna Railroad Is Recasting Its Line Through Newark and the Oranges

Fire at Sea

Means of Minimizing an Ocean Peril of Increasing Prevalence

When the Hand on the Throttle Fails

The Construction and Operation of the Webb Automatic Train-Stop System

Our Wasteful Industries

Six Major Manufacturing Groups That Make a Bad Showing as Regards Operating Efficiency

Curbing the Colorado

Flood Control, Irrigation, and Power Generation All In One Gigantic Construction

A Ship Without a Bottom

How the "F. D. Asche" Was Towed from Florida to New York with Only a Blanket of Compressed Air to Keep the Sea Out of Her Gaping Hull

Research Settles the Problem of Tunnel Ventilation

The Best System for Supplying Fresh Air to the Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel Tube Is Determined

America's Fuel Resources

What We Have and How We Are Using Them

America's Domestic Food Supply

In which we take Inventory of our needs and how far they are Supplied by Home Production

A Climax in Concrete Construction

Erecting An Eighteen Story Reinforced Concrete Building at a Lower Cost Than a Structural Steel Type

Grouping Our Power Plants

The Superpower Survey's Impressive Figures, Which Afford Plenty of Food for Thought

The Hudson River Caissons

Giant Shafts from Which the Vehicular Tunnel Will be Built and Later Ventilated

Painting with Metal Spray

How Protective Coatings are Shot into Place Under the Latest Procedure

Starving in the Midst of Plenty

Present Knowledge Regarding the Cause and Cure of Pellagra

Getting the Rest of the Oil

Laboratory Tests that Reveal the Underground Secrets of the Petroleum Field

The Radio Compass and Navigation, The Bombing Tests and our Naval Policy and more