Volume 112, Issue 23
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Features
Our Seventieth Anniversary, The Greatest Ten Years of Invention, The Super-Battle-Cruiser
Seventy Years of Invention
A Record of Progress, Decade by Decade
The Rise of the Automobile
From the Snorting Road Locomotive to the Swift Noiseless Car of To-day
Transportation on Land and Sea
The Growth of the Railway and the Steamship
Seventy Years of Civil Engineering
Retrospective Review of the More Important Works Completed During the Life of the Scientific American
The Invention and Development of Photography
From the Daguerreotype to the Moving Picture
Communicating Over Great Distances
The Invention of the Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Telegraphy A Record of Achievement from Morse to Marconi
The Patent Office and Invention Since 1845
How the Government Has Kept Pace With the Inventor
Converting Night into Day
Artificial Lighting Problems and How They Have Been Solved What the Inventor Has Done for Oil, Gas, and Electricity in Illumination
Some Personal Recollections
An Autobiographical Sketch
Machines With Which Machines are Made
A Brief History of the Development of Metal-Working Power-Driven Tools
Seventy Years of the Scientific American
How the Scientific American Was Founded and How It Grew from Very Small Beginnings; the Active Part Played by Its Editors in Stimulating Public Interest in Science and Invention
Making a New Industry
The Phenomenal Development of Electrical Apparatus in the Last Two Decades