Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 4

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Features

Why it is Twelve O'clock?, Newport or New York for the Cup Races and more

Wood Alcohol

What It Is and Why It Is Deadly to the Human Mechanism

H. E. Howe

Some Vegetable Parasites

Flowering Plants and Fungi That Derive Nourishment from Other Plants

C. Geoffrey Nicholson

The Romance of Invention--VII

A Pioneer of the Electric Motor, the Trolley Car, the Multiple-Unit-Train-Control, the Electric Elevator

C. H. Claudy

The New York State Barge Canal--III

The Type of Barge Best Adapted to Our New Waterway

Gordon P. Gleason

The Tower Telescope

How it Works and Why it is Necessary for Certain purposes

Joseph Mastella Le Grand

Blazing Wisconsin Ways, Hydro Power for the Canadian Farmer and more

Avis Gordon Vestal

Wonderful Clocks of Olden Times

Striking Examples of the Work Done by Exponents of this Early Mechanical Art

Departments

Correspondence - January 24, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - - January 24, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - January 24, 1920