Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 17

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Features

The Torpedo Motor Boat, The Aerial Mail and Aviation, and more

Applying the Lessons of the War to Torpedo-Boat Service

Making an American City

How the Problems of the Melting Pot Are Met in the Typical Case of Detroit

E. M. Rush

Exploiting the Inventor--III

How Real and Fancied Inventions Are Used, as a Means of Defrauding the Unwise Investor

C. H. Claudy

Required Reforms of the Road

Some Things That Might be Done in the Combined Interests of Motorists and Pedestrians

Monroe Woolley

The Story of Radium

How Luminous Metals and Million-Dollar Remedies Are Put Within the Reach of All

H. A. Mount

Where the Eye Supplants the Ear

How Sound Waves Are Made Visible and Analyzed with Complete Precision

M. A. Henry

A Radial Gate for Irrigation Canals

Seline Hess

The Geology of Ripple Marks

J. F. Springer

Lilies of Stone

A Curious Family of Water Animals That Has Survived from Fossil Times

W. A. Butterfield

A Stranded School of Whales and what it Means

H. J. Shepstone

Rare South Sea Armor

Francis Dickie

Community Pumps for Irrigation, The Current Issue of the Scientific American Monthly and more

Departments

Correspondence - April 24, 1920

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting - April 24, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - April 24, 1920

New Books, Etc. - April 24, 1920