Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 4

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Features

Labor and the Industrial Engineer, Crippling American Aviation and more

Paper from Alaska

The Prospects of a Permanent Supply of Pulpwood from Our Arctic Establishments

James Anderson

Every Automobile its Own Elevator

Robert G. Skerrett

A Near-Diesel Engine for the Airplane

Harold F. Blanchard

The Case for the Steam Locomotive

Improved Efficiency a Possible Alternative to Railroad Electrification

Charles Frederick Carter

Developing One Million Horsepower from Tidal Energy

A Government Scheme for Distributing 500,000 Electric Horsepower Generated in a Barrage Across the Estuary of the Severn

A Daring Ship Design

Concrete Tankers Cast in Sections from Sliding Forms

Ralph Howard

Panama Canal Facts

How the Panama Canal Saves Time and Distance

Koka Seki and its Uses

Departments

Correspondence

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions

Notes and Queries

New Books, Etc.