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Scientific American Magazine Vol 115 Issue 19

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 115, Issue 19

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Features

The Captured German Mine-Laying Submarine, Molybdenum as a Steel Alloy, and more

[The article includes a diagram of the submarine published by "the Scientific American by permission of the British Amiralty."]

Torpedo Screen for Ships Under Way

Building up Wall of Whirling Plates in the Path of a Submarine Torpedo

John B. Flowers

Strategic Moves of the War, October 26th, 1916

Our Military Expert

Letting the Eye Train the Voice

A New Instrument that Shows a Singer Whether he is True to Pitch

L. E. Dodd

Photography with a Horse-Shoe Magnet

Some Peculiar Results Obtained by Exposing a Photographic Plate to a Magnetic Field

F. F. Mace

The War Aeroplane here and Abroad

Where does the United States Stand with Regard to the Eyes of the Army?

Bertram Williams

Photographing Interior Structure of Concrete Work, A Chemical Laboratory on Wheels, and more

Buttons as a By-Product of Beer, Patents Issued on Collodial Bitumens, and more

Departments

Correspondence- November 4, 1916

The Heavens in November

Inventions New and Interesting- November 4, 1916

Recently Patented Inventions- November 4, 1916

Notes and Queries- November 4, 1916

New Books, Etc.- November 4, 1916