Stories by Robert G. Skerrett

Shall the Corn Fields Run Our Cars?

The Possibilities of Synthetic Fuels, and the Source of the Alcohol to Make Them

Reducing Trade Routes with Submarine Freighters

How a Special Type of Submarine Might Be Employed for Traversing the Arctic Ice Fields

Our Deep-Sea Freighters

Something of Permanent Advantage that We Got from Our Participation in the War

Going to Sea in a Tank

Self-Propelled Models That Make for Better Ships and Less Fuel Consumption

Duluth to Liverpool in One Bottom

The Arguments Advanced in Favor of a Deep-Water Route Between the Great Lakes and the Sea

Pooling Our Power

Economic Possibilities of the Super-Power Plan

Piercing the Catskills for Water

Some Constructional Details of the 18-Mile Tunnel Under the Shandaken Mountains

The World's Greatest Vehicular Tunnel

Some Constructional Features of the New York-New Jersey Project

Can Duplex Craft Speed Up Transportation?, New York's Greatest Handicap and more

Is the Fabricated Ship a Success?

Some Instances of What Standardized Construction Has Meant In Actual Operation

Making Farms Out of Deserts

Why We Must Resort to Irrigation, and How We Are Doing So

Finger Signals for the Motorist, Breaking Away from the Conventional in Mail Airplanes and more

Navigating Ships in Trains

An Electrically-Driven Power Boat That Supplies Current to the Motor-Equipped Units of Its Convoy

Our Deepest Wells

Some of the Scientific and Practical Problems Which They May Help Us To Solve

On River and Canal

What the Government Is Doing to Bring These Waterways to the Level of Use Maintained by the Lakes

Eliminating the Lost Call

How a Simple Telephonic Novelty Cuts Out a Vast Amount of Lost Motion in Office and Factory

A Solid Fuel in Liquid Form

The Strange Colloidal Combination of Oil and Coal that may Support the Industry of the Future

Again the Helicopter?

Experiments by Prominent Inventors Who Hope to Realize This Long-Standing Dream

Secrets of Antiquity

An Ancient Bronze Revived for Modern Service

Leather from the Sea

Giant Dwellers in the Water Who May be Called Upon to Make Good the Shortage of Hides