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Scientific American Magazine Vol 108 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 108, Issue 12

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Features

The Control of the Mississippi River, What the Rich Man Might Do for the Scholar and more

Six Wheeled Omnibus

Stanley Petman

Stereoscopic Views of Lightning

By the Berlin Correspondent of the Scientific American

"The Snow of the Penitents"

C. F. Talman

Compressed Air as a Protection for Battleships, Revelations of the Boston Automobile Show and more

R. G. Skerrett

Measuring the Flow of a Stream

How Water Powers Are Accurately Calculated

Richard Hamilton Byrd

Plastic Art of Prehistoric Man

Clay Figures Modeled by an Artist of Twenty Thousand Years Ago

Goniometer for Microscopes

C. C. Kiplinger

A Direct Current Motor from a Telephone Ringer

Guy Hubbard

A New Type of Water Rheostat, The Effect of Static Electricity on Water

J. N. Clarke

Gasoline and its Substitutes

A Great Problem and its Solution

The Chemistry of a Soldering Flux

Departments

Correspondence - March 22, 1913

Inventions New and Interesting - March 22, 1913

Recently Patented Inventions - March 22, 1913

Notes and Queries - March 22, 1913