Scientific American Magazine Vol 109 Issue 25

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 109, Issue 25

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Features

The Fifth Award of the Scientific American Medal, The Decline of the United States Navy and more

Inspecting Track Scales for the United States Government

New Test Car and Equipment of the National Bureau of Standards

Herbert T. Wade

A Fort that Travels on Wheels

Schneider Mobile Batteries for Coast Defense

Flying for Altitude Records, An Object Lesson in Road Maintenance and more

C. Dienstbach

Obituary, The Current Supplement

Henry E. Mead

Studying Ripening Bananas with the Respiration Calorimeter

Atlantic Steamships--A Retrospect

Thirteen Years' Development of the Transatlantic Liner

J. Bernard Walker

How many Stars are there in the Milky Way?

A Great Astronomical Problem and how it is Attacked

John W. N. Sullivan

Departments

Correspondence - December 20, 1913

Inventions New and Interesting - December 20, 1913

Recently Patented Inventions - December 20, 1913

Notes and Queries - December 20, 1913

New Books, Etc. - December 20, 1913