Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 12

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Features

America's Share in World Production, Paper and more

Ralph Howard

What Shall we Say to Mars?

A System for Opening Communication Despite the Absence of Any Common Basis of Language

H. W., C. Wells Nieman

Iron Castings from Steel Scrap, Using Brick and Wood in Reinforced Concrete and more

A. R. Surface

Paper from Cottonseed Waste

S. R. Winters

The Future of the Cotton Industry

What Organized Research Promises to Do for Grower and Manufacturer

H. E. Howe

Strange Things to Eat

Some Random Selections from the Cosmopolitan Larder of New York, City of All Nations

L. Lodian

New Orleans' Industrial Canal

A Six-Mile Waterway Connecting the Mississippi with the Gulf

Thomas Ewing Dabney

Finger Signals for the Motorist, Breaking Away from the Conventional in Mail Airplanes and more

Robert G. Skerrett

Potash from a New Source, Airplane Service Between Denmark and Germany and more

Quick Dry Lacquer Coating, Protecting the Surface of Aluminum from Corrosion and more

Henry A. Gardner

Departments

Correspondence - March 20, 1920

The Service of the Chemist

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle