Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 16

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 16

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Features

Transportation in the Oil Fields, The Gordon-Bennett Airplane Race and more

Edmund Conaway

Forty Centuries Ago--And Now

Why Should We Not Make Paper Again from the Papyrus?

M. Tevis

Concrete and the Building Crisis

Some of the Advantages Which Have Led to Wide Adoption of This Structural Type

Robert G. Skerrett

The Aerial Cruiser

Some Details Concerning the Latest British Rigid Dirigible R-80

Items in Brief

A Department Devoted to Current News in All Fields of Pure and Applied Science

Preventing Rust at High Temperatures

Aluminum-Coated Metals That Will Go to the Melting Point Without Formation of Scale

Robert June

A Pocket Machine Gun

E. C. Crossman

What Science did for Cheese

How Precision Was Substituted for Guesswork in the Making of Swiss and Other Varieties

George H. Dacy

Concerning Back Numbers, Propping Fruit Trees with Staples

Departments

Correspondence

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions