Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 21

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 21

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Features

A Curious Little Monorail Road in Ireland, Living Bean Poles and more

Something Different in Salvaging Operations

Relieving a Wreck of its Cargo with the Aid of Injections of Compressed Air

Robert G. Skerrett

A Giant Ingot-Mold Casting in the Making

A. R. Surface

A New Magnesium Alloy for Motor Pistons

George Gaulois

Aircraft of the Future

A Statement of What Remains to be Done, and the Directions in Which the Doing Seems to Lie

C. H. Claudy

The Five States of Matter

Two Fundamental Conditions That Must Be Recognized, Besides the Solid, Liquid and Gaseous

Our Coal in the Making

America's Peat Bogs and Their Utilization for Fuel

Harry A. Mount

Taming the River Nile

Construction of Dams and a 225-Mile Canal to Double the Irrigated Area in Egypt

H. C. Hardy

Keeping Tabs on Bird Peculiarities

George H. Dacy

How Meadow Mice Destroy Trees

William A. Murrill

Departments

Correspondence

The Service of the Chemist

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions