Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 8

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Features

Why Is It A Yard?, Some Economies for Welded Ships and more

Wireless and Everyday Business

How the Recent Development of Radio Communication Makes It Practical for Scattered Organizations

Benjamin F. Miessner

Reclaiming the No-Man's-Land of America

Bennie Hall

San Francisco as a Fuel Oil Port

C. W. Gieger

Hairs that Make Fabrics

The Microscopic Identification of Mammal Hairs Used in the Textile Industry

Leon Augustus Hausman

The Scientific Reason for Failure

Why Habit Is Often the Cause of Discouragement

D. H. Colcord

The Modern Gas Holder

Charles W. Person

Bringing the Electric Drive to Yachting

A Description of the Diesel-Electric Equipment of the Yacht "Elfay"

Agate Guides for Fishing Rods--A New America Industry

Robert H. Moulton

The All-Year Carburetor

Austin Parker

Departments

Correspondence - February 21, 1920

The Service of the Chemist - February 21, 1920

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle - February 21, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - February 21, 1920

New Books, Etc. - February 21, 1920