Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 9

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 9

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Features

Weighing a Monster Locomotive, A New Aviation Instrument and more

Herbert T. Wade

Our Deepest Wells

Some of the Scientific and Practical Problems Which They May Help Us To Solve

Robert G. Skerrett

Gaging Screw Threads with a Beam of Light

Merrill M. Hunting

What About Our Commercial Aviation?

George Gaulois

The Fruits of Scientific Farming

Proofs of the Pudding Which the Department of Agriculture Has Been Cooking These Many Years

C. H. Claudy

Motor Bus vs. Street Car

Some of the Reasons Why the Truck Is Doing So Well in This Competition

R. E. Fulton

Mansions of Mud

How California is Meeting the Housing Problem by Building in Adobe

John L. Von Blon

Battling with Snow and Ice in the Streets of New York

Ralph Howard

Again the Steam Automobile

The Latest Effort to Produce a Steam Car with All the Advantages of Gas and of Steam

Melting Brass Electrically, The Artificial Daylight of Photoplay Land

Raymond Francis Yates

Steel and Stone Cannot Stop Them

The Amazing Ravages of the White Ant, Which Extend Even Into Temperate Regions

George H. Dacy

Conquering the Stubborn Soil

H. A. Crafts

Better Light for Microscopy

H. E. Howe

Firing Shell into a Concrete Tank

The Experimental Water Butt at the Aberdeen Proving Ground of the United States Army

Herbert T. Wade

Electron Tube Generator

Departments

Correspondence - February 28, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - February 28, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - February 28, 1920