Scientific American Magazine Vol 109 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 109, Issue 5

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Features

Torpedo Tubes But No Torpedoes, Another Call for the Fireproof Stairway and more

Some Recent Improvements in the use of the Electric Furnace

Novel Uses for the Electric Current in Industry

A Statue from the Land of Semiramis, Fire Waste at the Conservation Congress

Edgar J. Banks

Fighting in the Air, What are the Ten Greatest Inventions of Our Time, and Why and more

Carl Dienstbach

The Electric Production of Steel

From the Early Experiments of Siemens to the Thirty-ton Furnace of To-day

Curious Exotic Fishes

Jacques Boyer

Dead Matter That Seems Alive

Synthetic Ideas About Life

Benjamin C. Gruenberg

The Airman and the Weather

Aeronautic Meteorology: A New Branch of Applied Science

Charles Fitzhugh Talman

Device for Detecting Flight of Mosquitoes

L. E. Haskell

Navy to Determine Longitude by Wireless; also Speed of Hertzian Waves, The Current Supplement

Louis E. Browne

Departments

Correspondance - August 2, 1913

The Heavens in August 1913

Inventions New and Interesting - August 2, 1913

Recently Patented Inventions - August 2, 1913

Notes and Queries - August 2, 1913

New Books, Etc. - August 2, 1913