Scientific American Magazine Vol 104 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 104, Issue 14

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Features

Sport for Sport's Sake, Fire Drills in Factories and more

Nocturnal Warfare

An Automobile-mounted Searchlight for the French Army

Frank C. Perkins

Presentation of the Scientific American Trophy

Speeches at the Aero Club of America's Banquet and Description of Curtiss's Work in Aviation

Old Coins and Ancient Bankers

The Origin of Our Modern Methods of Commerce

Walter H. Woodward

The Le Verrier Centenary, The Current Supplement and more

What do you Think of the Scientific American?

Some Answers to a Question which We Put to Our Readers a Few Weeks Ago

Monsters of Bygone Ages

Some Remarkable Restorations of Extinct Animals

Harold J. Shepstone

Science in the Current Periodicals - April 8, 1911

In this Department the Reader will find Brief Abstracts of Interesting Articles Appearing in Contemporary Periodicals at Home and Abroad

"Aki," the First Japanese Dreadnought

Turbine Engines Drive the Ship at 20.2 Knots

How do you Like the Home Laboratory?

Projectile Photography

Norman Barden

A Combined Battery and Motor

Chauncey W. Nieman

Improvised Stereoscopic Camera, Silvering Reflectors and more

John E. Mellish

Neat Method of Testing Shutter-speeds

H. H. F. Clarke

The Inventor's Department - April 8, 1911

Simple Patent Law; Patent Office News; Inventions New and Interesting

James J. Newton

Public Roads, Irrigation Investigations

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions - April 8, 1911

Notes and Queries - April 8, 1911

New Books, Etc. - April 8, 1911