Scientific American Magazine Vol 120 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 120, Issue 4

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Features

Submarine Range-Finding by Means of Reflected Sound Waves

Port and Harbor Facilities, Electric Waves From Ocean Tides and more

The Voice of the Sea

Favorite Nooks on the Shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific

LeRoy Jeffers

Curved or "S" Courses

A Protection Against Torpedo and Gunfire

The Final Solution of the Airship Problem

Industrial Production of Helium and What It Means in the Future of the Airship

Ladislas D'Orcy

Battleplane Armament

From the Automatic Pistol of the Early Airman to the Multi-Gun Fighting Airplane of Today

The Principles of Camouflage--I

The Art of Concealment and Deception as Practiced on Land

M. Luckiesh

Decoy Ships for Submarines

Some Details of Naval Actions Which Brought the Victoria Cross

World Markets for American Manufactures

Lynn W. Meekins

Weighing the Temperature for Blind Folk, A Stretcher that Gives up its Load Painlessly

Jacques Boyer

The Sahara Hydrological Station

Departments

Inventions New and Interesting - January 25, 1919