Scientific American Magazine Vol 105 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 105, Issue 2

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Features

The Subway Muddle, Necessity and Invention and more

George Ellery Hale

By Frederick Slocum of the Yerkes Observatory Staff America's Foremost Solar Physicist

How to Find your Way in the Air

Aeronautical Signals; Aeronautic Charts; Steering by Compass

Naval Aviation, Advanced Study in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and more

W. Irving Chambers

Sailing the Seven Seas in a "Cockleshell"

Two Diminutive Yawls Have Dared the Dangers of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Automobile Novelties

A Motor Car for Assayers; Psychological Tests for Chauffeurs

Psychological Apparatus for Testing Chauffeurs

Ralph Bergengren

Abstracts from Current Periodicals

Phases of Science as Other Editors See Them

Nail-holder for Claw-hammers

W. J. C

A Good Substitute for a Drill Post

R. C. D.

Some Oddities in Joints

W. D. Graves

Centering and Reboring Engine Cylinders in a Lathe

H. C. Urbaner

Reducing the Size of Tubing

F. C. I.

A Simple Vise

B. Francis Dashiell

The Inventor's Department - July 8, 1911

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

How I Invented the Air Brake--IV, Notes for Inventors and more

George Westinghouse

Railway Building in Asiatic Russia: Paris-Peking in Nine and a Half Days

Departments

Correspondence - July 8, 1911

Recently Patented Inventions - July 8, 1911

New Books, Etc. - July 8, 1911