Scientific American Magazine Vol 111 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 111, Issue 8

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Features

The Indomitable Engineer, Best Light for the Eyes, and more

An All Metal Diving Suit

It Carries a Man Safely to Greater Depths Than Have Hitherto Been Attained by Divers

Robert G. Skerrett

This Month's Total Eclipse of the Sun

Frederick Slocum

Curious Things About Handwriting, Strange Animal Tragedies

Leonard Keene Hirshberg

The Prospects of Aerial Fighting in the Present War

What May be Expected of Dirigibles and Aeroplanes
Also includes a two-page spread of anti-aircraft and other weapons

Carl Dienstbach

Subsistence in the Present War

Russia's Giant War Flyers

The Sikorsky Aeroplanes and How They Are Constructed

H. Bannerman-Phillips

The Current Supplement, A Society that Studies Instruments of Precision

Departments

Correspondence- August 22, 1914

Recently Patented Inventions- August 22, 1914