Scientific American Magazine Vol 120 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 120, Issue 20

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Features

The Pioneer of the Trans-Atlantic Liner

Robert G. Skerrett

The Ship-Owners' Point of View, Phantom Limbs and more

The Future of the Archaeologist in Mesopotamia

A Wonderful Field Opened Up to the Explorer

Edgar J. Banks

Mobilizing a Lady Bug Army to Fight the Aphis

Horace E. Thomas

Plants that Make Stones

S. Leonard Bastin

The French Problem of Reconstruction--III

The Practical Methods by Which the Devastated Home, Farm and Industrial Plant Are Being Rebuilt

C. H. Claudy

Light and Progress

The Part Played by Artificial Illuminants in the Development of the Human Race

M. Luckiesh

Listening for the Enemy

Sound-Ranging Devices Employed to Locate Hostile Guns, Planes and Submarines

A "Super-Charged" Airplane Engine, Pulling the Trigger by Fluid Pressure and more

Benjamin S. Foss

World Markets for American Manufactures

A department devoted to the extension of American trade in foreign lands

Lynn W. Meekins

The Castor Bean and its Many Uses

The Theory of Electro Culture

Robert D. McCreery

Departments

Correspondence - May 17, 1919

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

The Service of the Chemist

New Books, Etc. - May 17, 1919