Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 10

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 10

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Features

Dutch Cooling Towers of Concrete, New Plant Foods and more

Building in the Wilderness

Where the Engineer Has to Lay Down a Railroad to Take Him to His Job

A. R. Surface

Handling High Voltage with Bare Hands

George Gaulois

The Third Degree for the Baseball

Edgar Lockhart

Muggy Days and Thirsty Air

The Mechanism That Keeps Us Cool, and Why It Fails to Work in Damp Weather

Alexander McAdie

Radium and its Works

How the Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays Are Being Applied in Commerce and in Medicine

Ralph Howard

Where Willow Ware Comes From

How the Tree Is Grown and Tended to Yield the Raw Materials of Furniture and Basket Factories

George H. Dacy

A Forward Step in American Airplane Engines, This Year's Nominations for the Hall of Fame

Col. Jesse G. Vincent

Smothering Fire with Bubbles of Gas

How Carbon Dioxide Protects the Oil Tank Against Its Greatest Hazard

J. F. Springer

Is the Dam Safe?

Departments

Correspondence - September 4, 1920

The Heavens in September, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - September 4, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - September 4, 1920

Notes and Queries - September 4, 1920

New Books, Etc. - September 4, 1920