Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 5

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Features

Keeping the River Tunnel Dry, Spontaneous Combustion Temperatures of Liquid Fuels and more

M. A. Henry

Our Future Oil Supply

A Hopeful View of the Possibilities of the Mexican Fields

A. Hooton Blackiston

How a Road Rests in its Bed, Soap from Lignite Tar Oils

S. R. Winters

Scrapping Good Machinery for Better Service

H. A. Mount

The Romance of Invention--XV

Frederic E. Ives, Wizard of Color and Light, and Father of the Half-Tone

C. H. Claudy

Our Mechanical Eyes

Glass for Optical Purposes, and How It Is Made

J. F. Springer

Learning by Seeing

George H. Dacy

Keeping the Camera on an Even Keel, Telephoning in Cipher

J. E. D. Meador

The America's Cup Races

Notes on the Contests for 1920

J. Bernard Walker

Australian "Blackboy" Tree

Departments

Correspondence - July 31, 1920

The Heavens in August, 1920

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting - July 31, 1920