Scientific American Magazine Vol 123 Issue 25

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 123, Issue 25

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Features

Electric Propulsion for Our Merchant Marine, Synthetic Benzine and more

Power and the City

Some Facts and Figures on How Los Angeles Has Harnessed the Distant Mountain Streams

Crittenden Marriott

The Unusual in Passenger-Carrying Airplanes

Alfred Longville

Succeeding in Signal Engineering

A Relatively New Field Opened to the Man Who Wishes to Learn While He Earns

Raymond Francis Yates

Solving the Labor Problem--III

How Wages Were More than Adjusted to the Cost of Living, with Increased Output and Freedom from Strikes

E. W. Hulet

The Farm Tractor in 1920

An Effort to Reconcile Conflicting Views and State the True Role of the Mechanical Horse

Francis Z. Hazlett

Our Diamond Industry

How the United States Has Become the Greatest Buyer of Diamonds in the World

Harry A. Mount

Radio Prize Winner for 1919

Departments

The Service of the Chemist

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions