Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 7

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 7

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Features

A Second Panama Canal, The King's Cup Ocean Race and more

A Giant Job of Underpinning

Building a Subway Beneath Philadelphia's City Hall, with its Inadequate Foundations

William A. McGarry

Why Balloons Bounce Off Clouds

Corley P. McDarment

The Vacuum Tube as an Engineering Problem

W. C. White

Pumping Coal from Mine to Seaboard

A Scheme for Shipping this Fuel via Pipe Lines, Much as Oil now is Shipped

C. H. Thomas

Little Things that Count Big

The Refinement of Details that Marks Our Present Railroad Development, and Some of the Further Needs

Herbert T. Walker

How we Think

The Microscopic Structure of the Intellectual Portion of the Human Brain

Leon Augustus Hausman

Leading Navies Compared

First Line Fighting Strength Today and in 1924, When Ships now Building will be in Operation

The Engineers of Ancient Egypt

Mechanical Devices Used in Constructing Pyramids and Erecting Obelisks

G. A. McWilliams

Industrial Skin Hazards

Departments

Correspondence

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions