Scientific American Magazine Vol 121 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 121, Issue 9

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Features

Modern Machine Design in Old China, Ventilation of the Vehicular Tunnel, and more

Completion of the Pearl Harbor Dry Dock

Peculiar Geological Conditions and How They Were Mastered by an Ingenious Method of Construction

A. Russell Bond

When the Compass Goes Crazy

The Peculiar Conditions of Flying Which Make the Needle Misbehave

C. H. Claudy

The James Watt Centenary

One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Man Who Made the Steam Engine What It Is

Herbert T. Wade

Our Technical Achievements in the Great War--V

Providing the Equipment and Training the Forces for a Great Flying Force

Desert Plants as Fodder, Electric Properties of Silicon and Germanium and more

Departments

Correspondence - August 30, 1919

The Heavens in September, 1919

Inventions New and Interesting - August 30, 1919

Recently Patented Inventions - August 30, 1919