Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 18

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Features

The True Role of Water Power, Repairing the Propeller of a Destroyer and more

C. D. Wagoner

The Problems of Electrification

The Struggle Toward a Standard, and What Is Likely to Come of It

Robert G. Skerrett

California's Seaweed Industry

John L. Von Blon

Setting Federal Wheat Standards, Nickel Babbitt

George H. Dacy

Edison's Views on Life and Death

An Interview with the Famous Inventor Regarding His Attempt to Communicate with the Next World

Austin C. Lescarboura

Revising High Bridge

Five Alternative Official Plans for Doing Away with the Piers that Obstruct Navigation

W. B. West

Getting a Line on Concrete Pipe

S. R. Winters

The Architecture of the Concrete Chimney

G. Orb

Hardening Steel in Gas Fired Furnaces

Some Interesting Details of One of the Leading Modern Heat-Treating Processes

W. A. Ehlers

The Last Race for the Gordon Bennett Cup

John Jay Ide

Do Moths use "Wireless"?

Departments

Correspondence

The Heavens in November, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions