Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 8

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Features

Emptying Eight Freight Cars into a Thimble, No Relation Between Cultivation and Rainfall and more

Is there a Coal Shortage?

A Survey of the Coal Question in Our Largest Coal-Consuming Center

Harry A. Mount

An Engineering Bulwark

The Proposed Standing Army, for Purposes of Peace, of the Men Who Know How to Do Things

Richard L. Humphrey

Reclaiming Salt Surfeited Soils

How a Western Problem Arising Out of Irrigation Methods Is Being Met

George A. Dacy

The World's Largest Crane

How the Engineer Has Made It Possible to Lift and Swing a 350-Ton Load

Record Weather

Excessive Precipitation, Temperature Extremes, High Winds, Blizzards, Hurricanes and Tornadoes

Wendell M. Whiting

The Romance of Invention--XVI

Charles G. Curtis--The Man Who Patented Efficiency In Steam Turbines

C. H. Claudy

Return Loads Bureau Idea in England, Converting Garbage into a Real Asset

Departments

Correspondence - August 21, 1920

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions - August 21, 1920