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Scientific American Magazine Vol 114 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 114, Issue 1

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Features

Retrospect of the Year 1915

The World War

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

Alexander Winton

Development of the American Motor Car that Has Led Up to the V-Type Multi-Cylinder Motor

J. G. Vincent

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

C. Edward Palmer

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