Scientific American Magazine Vol 120 Issue 22

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 120, Issue 22

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Features

The Park Place Subway Station Escalators

To the Mayor of New York, Boy Scout Week and more

A Question of Identity

Were Flying Reptiles Merely Unfeathered Birds, or Birds Merely Feathered Reptiles?

W. H. Ballou

Patents and Profits

Why Does an Inventor Sometimes Fail to Receive the Expected Reward?

Dudley T. Fisher

French Naval Policy and the Lessons of the Great War

A Brief Study of the Ships of the War and Their Performances

Robert W. Neeser

Oddities of the Trans-Atlantic Flight

A Review of the Attempts of the C-5, Sopwith, Martynside, and NC Entries

A Shooting University

The Great Naval Rifle Range at Caldwell, New Jersey, Where the General Public Will Be Taught by Experts How to Use the Rifle

Edward C. Crossman

The French Problem of Reconstruction--IV

Some of the Details of Agricultural and Industrial Restablishment

C. H. Claudy

Testing Physical Fitness with the Camera

The Mensurgraph a New Aid to Photographic Measuring

Robert G. Skerrett

A Stethoscope for the Earth

The Geophone, Invented for War Service, but Which Gives Promise of Great Industrial Value

The Current Supplement

Aerial Conductors of Aluminum

Departments

Correspondence - May 31, 1919

The Heavens in June, 1919

Inventions New and Interesting - May 31, 1919

Recently Patented Inventions - May 31, 1919