Scientific American Magazine

October 1912

Volume 107, Issue 17

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Features

Physical Safeguards in Railroad Travel, The Nobel Prize Awarded to Dr. Carrel and more

The "Immortality" of Tissues

Its Bearing on the Study of Old Age

Genevieve Grandcourt

Lesson of the Railroad Wreck at Westport

The Imminent Peril of the Short Crossover

A Triple Mirror for Secret Signaling

Reflected Beam that is Invisible Out of the Path of the Beam

C. H. Claudy

A Glimpse of a Scenic Painter's Studio

A Profession That Calls for an Intimate Acquaintance With Historic Conditions

Alfred Gradenwitz

The Twin-screw Motor Vessel "Monte Penedo", The Improvement of Fifth Avenue and more

By Our Berlin Correspondent

Leyden Jars Made of Incandescent Lamp Bulbs

Maxwell Epstein

An Electric Stove

Frederick E. Ward

Studying Prismatic Colors of Incandescent Lamps with a Reading Glass

Stuart K. Harlow

Relative Clearness of White and Black Letters

Samuel W. Balch

The Proposed Trans-Sahara Railway

Delivery Service of New York's Department Stores, Motor Truck Queries and Answers

Morris A. Hall