Scientific American Magazine Vol 116 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 116, Issue 14

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Features

How Beer is Made

Ernest Elva Weir

Germany's Submarine Effort, Clandestine Wireless Stations Here and Abroad, and more

Airmen and the Weather Bureau--Partners

The Meteorological Work Undertaken at the San Diego Army Aviation School

C. L. Edholm

Women-Chemists in Wartime

[article on chemistry schools for women in Berlin and elsewhere]

Alfred Gradenwitz

Strategic Moves of the War--March 29th, 1917

By Our Military Expert

The American Merchant Marine

Where it Will Stand Upon Return of Normal Times

Robert Dollar

Gun Versus Armor

Will Long-Range, Big-Gun Attack Call for a Redistribution of Armor?

J. Bernard Walker

Machines for Mining Coal

Reducing the Hazards of Hand Mining and Improving the Product

The Car of All Work

C. L. Edholm

High Tension Submarine Cable Between Denmark and Sweden, Are Wooden Shoes Coming into Vogue Again?

Salving a Big Ship

How the "Republic" was Floated by Building Up her Sides

What I Can do for My Country

I. The Chemist

A New French Artificial Eye

[article about a facial prosthetic developed by the French]

Aluminum Coated Iron Castings, Nothing New Under the Sun, and more

National Forest Enlarged, The Most Active Classes of Inventions, and more

Why the Average American Dies at Forty-three

R. W. Lockwood

Departments

The Heavens in April, 1917

Inventions New and Interesting- April 7, 1917

Recently Patented Inventions- April 7, 1917

Notes and Queries- April 7, 1917

New Books, Etc.- April 7, 1917