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Scientific American Magazine Vol 115 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 115, Issue 8

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Features

A New Form of High Voltage Measuring Instrument

J. B Whitehead

The Argument for Big Submarines, Fact Versus Fiction in Motion Pictures, and more

Natural Tree Surgery

How Unprofitable Parts are Eliminated in the Vegetable Kingdom

David Brock

Battling With 300 Tons of Calcium Carbide

Robt. G. Skerrett

First Electric Boat-Lift in Holland, High-Speed Steel Alloy by New Process, and more

W. J. L Kiehl

Strategic Moves of the War, August 12th, 1916

Our Military Expert

German Official Story of the Skagerrak Sea Fight

The Forerunner of the All-Big-Gun Fighting Ship

The Dreadnought of the Civil War

Robert G. Skerrett

The Occultation of Saturn on August 25th, The Current Supplement, and more

William F. Rigge

Departments

The Motor-driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions- August 19, 1916