Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 24

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 24

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Features

A Boat that Pumps its Way Along, Fighting a Fisherman's Pest and more

Sounding with Sound

How the M-V Type of Hydrophone Developed for U-Boat Detection Now Serves the Peaceful Mariner

Harry A. Mount

Making the Milkman Fear the Pump

James Anderson

Machinery for the Sugar-Beet Field, Mowing with the Tractor

W. F. Wilcox

Succeeding in Radio Engineering

One of the Newest of Professions, and One Well Worth the Attention of the Man With the Pioneering Instinct

Raymond Francis Yates

The Scientific Basis of Carelessness

An Unrecognized Danger of Allowing Habit to Superintend Our Acts

D. H. Colcord

Checking Up Einstein

The Proposed Repetition of the Michelson-Morley Experiment in Search of Evidence of Ether Drift

M. A. Henry

What About Our Wine Grapes?

A Few Reasons Why Prohibition Is Not Going to Bankrupt the California Growers

Arthur L. Dahl

Breaking the World's Motorcycle Records, Lantern Slides by the Yard and more

Ralph Howard

Directing the Detourist

Avis Gordon Vestal

Business and Government

What the Department of Commerce is doing for America and What it Would Like to Do

Joshua W. Alexander

Artificial Fertilization of Flowers, Pulling Cables by Auto-Power and more

Jacques Boyer

Barbados an Oil Field, Soapstone, and more

C. T. Mason

Departments

Correspondence - June 12, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - June 12, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - June 12, 1920

New Books, Etc. - June 12, 1920