Scientific American Magazine Vol 120 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 120, Issue 17

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Features

Jellicoe on the Grand Fleet, The Revival of Amateur Wireless and more

An Airman's Story

Special Correspondent of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in France

C. H. Claudy

Small Airplanes and the Trans-Atlantic Flight

Describing the Sopwith, Short, and Martynside Airplanes Entered in the Great Contest

Emergency Employment Committee for Soldiers and Sailors

Stopping the Breach Caused by the Curtailment of Funds of the United States Employment Service

D. M. Reynolds

Supplying the British Farmer with the Sinews of War

How Inadequate Supplies of Labor, Machinery, Seed and Fertilizer Were Stretched into Sufficiency

H. Bannerman Phillips

Weighing High Temperatures in an Electric Balance

A New System of Pyrometry that Gives Better Control of Heat Processes

J. M. Bird

America's Great Effort in Ordnance--II

The New Proving Ground For Testing Army Ordnance at Aberdeen, Md.

The Crystal Structure of Ice

Departments

Correspondence - April 26, 1919

Inventions New and Interesting - April 26, 1919

Recently Patented Inventions - April 26, 1919