Scientific American Magazine Vol 113 Issue 24

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 113, Issue 24

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Features

A New Form of the Fighting Aircraft, Unmuzzling Our Naval and Military Officers and more

The Navy is working on an aircraft that can launch a torpedo

Robert G. Skerrett

How a Rifle is Sighted

Quickness and Accuracy Obtained with the Peep Sight

Difficult House-Moving Feat to Save Trees, Labor-Saving Equipment for Concrete Road Building and more

Strategic Moves of the War, December 4th, 1915

A Military Expert

Relics of Ancient Costa Rica

Metal-Working Methods of Primitive Central American Artisans Disclosed by Recovered Ornaments

Walter L. Beasley

Bog Moss for Surgical Dressings

A Substitute for Prepared Cotton Wool Discovered in England and Scotland

Charles M. Maigne

Hawaiian Blowholes, Recent Completion of the Kensico Reservoir

Vaughan MacCaughey

Converted Automobile as Motive Power for Mine Cars, Remote Controlled Electric Piano for Picture Theaters and more

Departments

Correspondence - December 11, 1915

Inventions New and Interesting - December 11, 1915

New Books, Etc. - December 11, 1915