Scientific American Magazine Vol 110 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 110, Issue 14

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Features

Softening Souple Silk, One Of The Largest Forest Nurseries

Traveling Greenhouses

S. Leonard Bastin

The Redemption of Mesopotamia, New York's Sewage Problem, Solar Radiation Measurements at Great Altitudes, and more

A New Theory of Sunspots

E. A. Fath

First Magnitude Stars

Frederic Campbell

The Problem of Our Navy—April 4, 1914

VI.—Our Shortage of Scouts, Torpedoes and Mines

Gravitation and the End of the World

John W. N. Sullivan

A Vindication of Adjustable Wings, Wireless in the Antarctic

Carl Dienstbach

How the Scientists are Studying the Aeroplane

Institutes of Aerial Engineering and Their Work

Paul Béjeuhr

The Most Powerful Government Wireless Plant

The United States Naval Station at Radio, Virginia

John L. Hogan Jr.

Attractions of Variable-star Observing

Edward Gray

The Water-drop as a Microscope

James Bailey

A Wonderful Model of a Copper Mine

J. W. Grigg

Finishing the Work at Panama, A New Method of Sterilizing Milk

Fighting Dust with Dust

Powered Stone to Prevent Coal Mine Explosions

John B. C. Kershaw

Curiosities of Science and Invention

Commissioner Ewing and the Patent Office Building

The Electrolysis of an Egg

Albert A. Somerville

Motion Pictures of Vocal Chords

Jacques Boyer

Departments

Correspondence-April 4, 1914

Recently Patented Inventions-April 4, 1914

Notes and Queries-April 4, 1914