Scientific American Magazine Vol 110 Issue 23

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 110, Issue 23

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Features

An Ice Flood, How It Feels to Travel by Flying Boat, and more

W. F. Anderson

Analytical Comparison of the Bird and Monoplane

James F. Blanchard

Novelties in Aeroplane Design

A Sixty-Mile-an-Hour Gun-Carrying Biplane of Steel, A Flying Machine Which Is a Mechanical Equivalent of a Soaring Bird

The New Cunarder Aquitania

Another Ocean Liner Over 900 Feet Long Reaches the Port of New York

Testing the Langley Aeroplane at the Curtiss Aerodrome, The Bachelet Railway, and more

Weaving Real Persian Rugs on a Power Loom, A Varsity Electrical Show, and more

An Interesting Solution of a Difficult Mechanical Problem

Theodore G. Hoster

A Gasoline Switching Engine

How the Roots of Seedlings Write

Interesting Experiments for the Summer Season

S. Leonard Bastin

New Work in Spectrum Analysis, The Disappearance of Gustav Hamel, and more

John W. N. Sullivan

Summary of the Eighth Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Alum in Foods, and more

Departments

Correspondence- June 6, 1914

Recently Patented Inventions- June 6, 1914

New Books, Etc.- June 6, 1914

Notes and Queries- June 6, 1914