Scientific American Magazine

October 1916

Volume 115, Issue 18

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Features

Our Latest Dreadnought, the "New Mexico"

The USS "New Mexico" [launched April 13, 1917, commssioned May 20, 1918; the "New Mexico" was powered by steam turbines that drove generators to provide electrical power to electric motors that drove the propellors]

The Law of Search and Seizure on the High Seas, A Warning, and more

Testing a Diamond

Many Ways of Separating the True and the False

S. Leonard Bastin

Loading Iron by Magnets

F. C. Perkins

Pre-Cooling California Oranges to Save Millions of Dollars Annually

Victor W. Killick

Strategic Moves of the War, October 20th, 1916

Our Military Expert

How the Giant Destroys

[The effects of the concussive power of artillery shells]

C. H. Claudy

Prototypes of Modern Artillery

Cannon of Several Centuries Ago were based on Same Principles as Present-Day Pieces

How did it Happen?, Manufacture of Bar-Ie-Duc Jelly

A Novel Hoist Recorder for Mines and Elevators, Designed to Answer this Question