Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 5

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Features

Prices--Today, Yesterday and Before the War, The Einstein Award and more

Ralph Howard

The Mississippi's Mouth

What New Orleans is doing to Insure its Permanent Navigability

J. F. Springer

New York's Snow-Fighting Tractor Plows

Alfred Longville

The Motor Sled Versus the Dog Sled

George Gaulois

Power in Big Packages

Some of the Economies to which we may look Forward if We Pool Our Fuel-Burning Plants

S. G. Roberts

A Matter of Definition

Divergent Viewpoints as to What Constitutes a Popular Essay By the Einstein Editor

Where the Printer gets his Ink

America's Carbon-Black Industry and the Methods it Employs

Henry P. Westcott

Are We Abusing Our Water Resources?

Current Methods of Disposing of Organic and Mill Wastes, and their Bearing on the Food Question

P. W. Claassen

New Battle-Cruiser Constellation

J. Bernard Walker

With the Engineers of Industry

A Department Devoted to the Physical Problems of the Plant Executive

Departments

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions