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Scientific American Magazine Vol 117 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 117, Issue 1

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Features

Re-introducing the Concrete-and-Steel Fortification, Morality at Newport, and more

"This last word in military
engineering is known as the " Mebu,"
which., is derived from the initial letters
of its German designation, "Maschinen
Eisen Betun Unterstand," which meaps an
underground concreted machine-gun position."
 

Automobile- July 7, 1917

Science- July 7, 1917

Electricity- July 7, 1917

How Rope is Made

Ernest Elva Weir

"Preparing to Prepare"

Practical Work of the General Munitions Board of the Council of National Defense

C. H. Claudy

Doing Our Bit--I

The Immediate Task for America

The Submarine Problem--VI

Principles, Promising and Otherwise, Which May Be Applied in Detecting the U-Boats

The Horse-Power Race

Where the Winner is the Man Who Develops the Greatest Amount of Work

A. E. Kennelly

A Telephone Instrument that is Designed after the Human Ear, Providing the Bolt with a Nut that Stays in Place

E. A. Dime

Mobilizing Educational Institutions

Departments

Correspondence- July 7, 1917

Inventions New and Interesting- July 7, 1917

Recently Patented Inventions- July 7, 1917

Foreign Commercial Notes and Queries- July 7, 1917