Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 24

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 24

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Features

Naval and Merchant Marine, Astronomy and more

The World's Greatest Shipping Terminal?

Or Will Hog Island Merely Stand as the Record Junk-Pile of All Time?

William Benjamin West

From Wood to Cloth

Samuel J. Record

A Giant of Old

J. Flagler Wright

The Needs of the Patent Office

Results of the Insistence that This Most Vital Government Bureau Pay an Operating Profit

William I. Wyman

Surveying America's Snows

How California and Nevada Forecast the Amount of Power and Water That They May Expect Each Year

James Anderson

Applying Elevator Principles to the Railroad Bridge

Hjalmer Lindquist Hjalmer Lindquist

A Unit System of Freight Transportation

Charles N. Winter

Wanted: An Inexpensive House

A Review of the Building Situation and a Few Timely Suggestions

Harry A. Mount

An Airplane with Variable Wing Surface Area, Paper from Veneer Waste

Alfred Longville

Venezuela's Mountain-Climbing Oil-Burning Locomotives

Harry Chapin Plummer

Music from Glass

Franklin's Harmonica and Other Instruments of the Same Class

J. F. Springer

Departments

Correspondence

Inventions New and Interesting

New Books, Etc.