Scientific American Magazine
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Features
Retrospect of the Year 1915
Balls and Ball Bearings
How Devices for Reducing Friction Are Made
The Automobile of 1916
Prominent Innovations That Distinguish the New Models from Their Predecessors
Victor W. Pag
Seeing America and the Lincoln Highway
Necessity of National Cooperation
Henry B. Joy
The Effect of Technical Education Upon the Leather Industry
How the Tanning Industry Has Benefited Through the Application of Science
Allen Rogers
Development in Commercial Vehicle Design
Prominent Features and Tendencies in Present-Day Motor Truck Design
Saving the Car by Careful Driving
Some of the Evils of an Excess of Caution
H. S. Whiting
The Knight-Type Sleeve-Valve Motor
A Revolutionary American Invention That Has Been Widely Adopted
New Accessories for the Automobile
Offerings for 1916 as Numerous and Diversified as Those of Previous Years
Electric Starting and Lighting Systems
Their Proper Care and Maintenance by the Motor Car Owner or Driver
"The Blind Turn"
Its Dangers and Various Methods of Solution
Chas. F. Barrett
Father Time the Only Official Tester
Development of the American Motor Car that Has Led Up to the V-Type Multi-Cylinder Motor
A Car for Every Prospective Purchaser
American Gasoline Pleasure Car Manufacturers with Prices of Their Leading Models for 1916
C. Edward Palmer
Ready Reference Table of Commercial Vehicles for 1916
Prices of Leading Electric Pleasure Cars for 1916
Price List of Leading Electric Commercial Vehicles for 1916
Death of James M. Dodge, Motor Truck Notes, and more
Departments
The Heavens in January
Recently Patented Inventions
New Books, Etc.
Notes and Queries