Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 17

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 17

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Features

The Household that Packs into a Trunk, Changes Rule of Road and more

Making the Hetch-Hetchy Dam Itself

How California's Big Water Development Is Carried On with Its Own Water

J. F. Springer

Piloting the Ship with the Ears, Rust Preventives

George Gaulois

A Magnetic-Proof House for the Workers

Harry A. Mount

The Romance of Invention--XVIII

William Leroy Emmet--Inventor, Engineer and Builder of Power Plants

C. H. Claudy

Painted Coffee

A Trick of the Trade That Is Little Known Outside Brazil

Robert C. Brown

A Mechanical Age for the Farm

What Nebraska, Through Its State University, Is Doing to Bring It About

R. P. Crawford

Extracting Oil by Electrolytic Action

A Recently Developed Process Which Bids Fair To Be of Economic Moment

Robert G. Skerrett

San Francisco's Traffic Convention and Street Safety Show

C. W. Geiger

Something New in Gasoline-Driven Plowing Machines

James H. Rodgers

Use of Pulverized Lignite for Fuel in Australia

Departments

Correspondence

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions