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Scientific American Magazine Vol 114 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 114, Issue 17

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Features

Preventing Coal Mine Explosions with a Spray of Rock Dust, Arsenic in the Hair and more

Portable Apparatus for the Detection of Combustible Gases in Air

George A. Burrell

Civilian Motor Trucks as Army Supply Trains

A Test Run Under Adverse Conditions to Prove Practicability of Heavy-Capacity Units

Joseph Brinker

Strategic Moves of the War, April 14th, 1916

By Our Military Expert

Wood Wastes—II

Results and Remedies

J. Gordon Dorrance

War Game—VI

The Decisive Attack

Guido von Horvath

Departments

Correspondence - April 22, 1916

Inventions New and Interesting - April 22, 1916

Recently Patented Inventions - April 22, 1916

New Books, Etc. - April 22, 1916