Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 7

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 7

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Features

If Our Cereal Harvest Should Descend on New York City, Phosphoric Acid and Potash Now Produced, and more

Reducing Trade Routes with Submarine Freighters

How a Special Type of Submarine Might Be Employed for Traversing the Arctic Ice Fields

Robert G. Skerrett

Succeeding in Railway Mechanical Engineering

A Profession Which Offers Exceptional Opportunities to the Trained Mechanical Engineer

Raymond Francis Yates

Electrification in Brazil

How the Sao Paulo Railroad Is Following the Example of Its American Namesake

Robert Carlton Brown

Seeing in the Dark

An Account of the Success Obtained During the War in Detecting Invisible Objects by Their Bodily Heat

Samuel O. Hoffman

Pulp Wood from Labrador

A Paper-Supply Likelihood of the Near Future

J. T. Rowland

Harvesting the Hay the Latest Way

Arthur L. Dahl

Shade Trees for City Streets, Testing Biological Products in England and more

Alfred Longville

The Racing Airplane of the Future

(Reprint of a Study of Probable Future Developments, Originally Published in the Scientific American of Oct. 22. 1910)

J. Bernard Walker

Departments

Correspondence - August 14, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - August 14, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - August 14, 1920