Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 2

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Features

Fish Fancying and Freak Farming, The $5,000 Einstein Essay Contest and more

George H. Dacy

The Twentieth-Century Lumber-Jack

Some of the Machines and Methods Which Were Not at the Disposal of His Grandfather

J. F. Springer

Is the Anchor Safe?, Electrification in Europe and more

Paul Harnden

Handling the Heating-Furnace Doors

Jules Gaudel

Turning the Wheels of a Century Hence--II

Water Power--Some of the A-B-C's That Govern Its Existence and Development

C. H. Claudy

Measuring Steam

Methods and Instruments for Determining What the Power Plant Is Doing

A. R. Surface

Toys that do Great Work

The Indispensable Place Occupied by Models in the Engineering of Today

M. A. Henry

The Mechanical Hello Girl

An Automatic Telephone Switchboard That Can Take Care of the Busiest Exchange

H. A. Mount

The Role of Asbestos

Some Facts Bearing on the Growing Importance of This Substance in Industry and Architecture

Ralph Howard

Departments

Correspondence - July 10, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - - July 10, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - - July 10, 1920