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Scientific American Magazine Vol 103 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 103, Issue 9

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Features

The Airman and the Bird, Advent of the Oil-Engine-Driven Ocean Steamship, and more

Aeronautics- August 27, 1910

Engineering- August 27, 1910

Science- August 27, 1910

The Effect of Tarred Roads upon Trees and Shrubs

Fernand Honor&eacute;

A Huge Propeller Testing-Plant

Whirling Table Experiments for the New British Dirigible

Comparison of the Argentine Battleship "Rivadavia" with the "Wyoming"

Ton for Ton, the 27,243-Ton "Wyoming" is the Equal of the 30,200-TON "Rivadavia"

Economic Value of Wild Birds

H. A. Crafts

New and Simplified Physical Apparatus

Jacques Boyer

Magic for Amateurs—VII

Card Tricks Requiring Simple Apparatus

W. H. Radcliffe

Home-Built Apparatus for Making Photo-Micrographs

T. J. Moon

A Touch-Me-Not Trick

Gustave Michaud

A Simple Wireless Telephone

Alan S. Dana

Simple Laboratory Thermostat

George A. James

Coating Metals and Alloys by Immersion, A Soap Bubble Celebration, and more

A. J. Jarman

Cross-Country Aeroplane Races in France and England

Berlin's New Postal Subway, Who Invented the Word Blizzard?

Departments

The Heavens in September

Recently Patented Inventions- August 27, 1910

Notes and Queries- August 27, 1910

New Books, Etc.- August 27, 1910

Index of Inventions- August 27, 1910