Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 20

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Features

How Much Water do we Drink in the United States?, Scientific American Monthly for May and more

Piercing the Catskills for Water

Some Constructional Details of the 18-Mile Tunnel Under the Shandaken Mountains

Robert G. Skerrett

To Offset the High Cost of Ice

W. Lambert

Making a River Pump its Water Uphill, Talking to Thousands by Electrifying and Amplifying the Speaker's Voice

Ralph Howard

A Merlin of Today

What the Audion of De Forest has Done and What it May Yet Do

C. H. Claudy

Hoboes of Industry

How the Picturesque Wanderer of Yesterday has been Replaced by the Present Floating Labor

H. A. Mount

Making Bad Land Good

Land Reclamation the Next Step in the Fight to Feed the World

H. A. Crafts

Our Share of the German Fleet

Five Ships that Fought at Jutland are on Their Way to the United States

The Architecture of the Atom

Some of the Details of the Langmuir Postulates as to the Atoms

Oscar R. Foster

Departments

The Service of the Chemist - May 15, 1920

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle - May 15, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - May 15, 1920

New Books, Etc. - May 15, 1920