Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 11

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 11

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Features

Splitting Hairs With Close-Limit Tools, Shifting Lines, and more

Alfred Longville

Turning the Skoda Works from Swords to Plowshares

How the Austrian Krupp's, Under Czecho-Slovak Auspices, Is Producing Munitions of Peace

Arthur J. Herschmann, Carl Scheid

The Greatest of Floating Cranes

Ralph Howard

Succeeding in Safety Engineering

The Man Who Makes Industry Safe for the Worker, and What He May Hope to Get Out of It

Raymond Francis Yates

Names That Live in Our Language

Some of the Men Whose Exploits Are Commemorated by Nouns and Adjectives

D. Waterson

Water Pipes of Wood

The Surprising Permanence and Tightness of This Unusual Construction

J. F. Springer

Checking Up the Gas Meter

How New York's Consumers Are Assured That They Get What They Pay For and No More

William R. Andrews

America's Bid for the Gordon Bennett Cup

Austin C. Lescarboura

A Queer Visitor in the Garden

Hamilton M. Laing

Malaria Control

Departments

Correspondence - September 11, 1920

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting - September 11, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - September 11, 1920

New Books, Etc. - September 11, 1920