Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 19

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 19

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Features

The Type-Reading Optophone, Our Surplus, Our Ships, and Europe's Need and more

An Instrument Which Enables the Blind To Read Ordinary Type

Building Out the Bubonic Plague

How the Twentieth Century Controls the Scourge of the Fourteenth by Waging War on Rats

H. G. Adams

Airbrakes for the Automobile

C. W. Geiger

Automobile Signals for Danger Spots

G. H. Dacy

Succeeding in Illuminating Engineering

What This Characteristically Modern Profession Holds Out to the Man Who Enters It

Raymond Francis Yates

Do Fish Swim as Airplanes Fly?

Striking Analogies between the Laws Governing These Widely Divergent Styles of Moving

M. Tevis

Putting the San Joaquin to Work

Some Details of the Water-Power Development in California's Fruitful Valley

Arthur L. Dahl

The "Super-Destroyer"

Some Facts Concerning the Origin and Development of the Flotilla Leader

Hector C. Bywater

Keeping in Step

Ralph Howard

Golf Without a Caddy

Elmer A. Sperry

Sending Photographs Over Wires

Details of the Belin System To Be Tried Between St. Louis and New York

Austin C. Lescarboura

Eliminating the Flash from Rifles and Big Guns

M. Tevis

Departments

Correspondence

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions

Notes and Queries

New Books, Etc.