Scientific American Magazine Vol 121 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 121, Issue 12

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Features

Reducing the Fire Hazard in the Airplane, American Iron in British Steel, and more

Jack Frost in the Orange Country

The Organization and Methods by Which California Growers Have Routed an Old Enemy

John L. Von Blon

High-Lights of Air-Travel

Some of the Things Seen from a Plane That Contradict Experience Gained on the Ground

M. Luckiesh

Secrets of Antiquity

An Ancient Bronze Revived for Modern Service

Robert G. Skerrett

The Self-Sinking Concrete Pile

How Jets of Water Are Used to Bore the Hole and Relieve the Pressure Upon the Descending Sides

Our Technical Achievements in the Great War--VIII

How the Physician and the Surgeon Mitigated the Horrors of War

Making the Desert Bloom in Australia

An Irrigation Scheme on the Island Continent That Involves Big Construction Work

Oliver Johnson

The Naturalist's Corner

Wild Life Conservation All Over the World

William T. Hornaday

Features of the Still Engine, Liquid Oxygen and more

Departments

The Service of the Chemist

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle