Scientific American Magazine Vol 117 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 117, Issue 9

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Features

The Heels of Achilles, Safety First at Sea, and more

Front page article on the Navy and our coast defense
Editorials on
Safety First at Sea
Warplanes versus Zeppelins
Education in War Time

 

Walter Scott Meriwether

Automobile- September 1, 1917

Science- September 1, 1917

Robbing the Arctic so that Montana May Drink

How the St. Mary River Was Shifted from the Hudson Bay Drainage System and Made To Flow into the Missouri

Rice Yield Ruined

Rozel Gotthold

Moving Forms for Concrete Elevators, A New Electrical Furnace, and more

R. P. Crawford

Behind the Cantonments

Picking the Men for America's Greatest Emergency Engineering Feat
[article on building the training camps for the wartime military expansion]

C. H. Claudy

The Submarine Problem--XIII

Marine Camouflage and Its Relation to the U-Boat Campaign

Eliminating Disease from the Casualty List

The Manufacture of Typhoid Vaccine by the French Service

How Forest Fires are Discovered and Reported, Cement Joints for Cast-Iron Pipes, and more

Departments

Correspondence- September 1, 1917

The Heavens In September, 1917

Inventions New and Interesting- September 1, 1917

Recently Patented Inventions- September 1, 1917