Stories by Robert G. Skerrett

Reporting the Life Story of Rails

How Railroads Employ the Rail-Section Machine for Determining the Wear and Tear on Their Tracks

Something New in Ferries

The Condensing of Milk

How It Is Carried Out and Its Economic and Vital Importance to the Country

Facts About Concrete

How We Are Expanding Our Knowledge of the Behavior of Cements and Aggregates

Putting Waste Metals to Work

Methods and Machines That Make It Profitable for Every Plant to Handle Its Own Junk

Keeping Our Railroads Up to the Mark

Pneumatic Apparatus That Constitutes the Prime Factor in Trunk-Line Maintenance of Way

Machine-Made Window Glass

How the Great Sheets of This Difficult Material Are Made and Handled

American Lignite Coals

Canada Blazes the Way to Put Them on a Par with Anthracite

Germany's Brown Coal

How Teuton Chemists Have Converted the Lowly Swamp Muck Into an Industrial Cinderella

Rails and Railroads

Some Facts and Figures of the Annual Traffic in New and Old Steel Rails

Making the Most of Niagara

Projects Looking to the better Utilization of This Great Water Power

Canada's Superpower Zone

What Ontario Has Done in Hydroelectric Development

Air Plus Oil Equals More Oil

How Compressed Air Takes the Place of Natural Gas in Stimulating the Flow of Old Wells

Shipping Coal by Wire

The Springdale Undertaking--A Great Power House at the Mine Mouth

Every Automobile its Own Elevator

Asbestos in Architecture

The Growing Importance Played by this Fibrous Substance in Modern Building

Something Different in Salvaging Operations

Relieving a Wreck of its Cargo with the Aid of Injections of Compressed Air

The Problems of Electrification

The Struggle Toward a Standard, and What Is Likely to Come of It

Extracting Oil by Electrolytic Action

A Recently Developed Process Which Bids Fair To Be of Economic Moment

Concrete and the Building Crisis

Some of the Advantages Which Have Led to Wide Adoption of This Structural Type