Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 12

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 12

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Features

Hudson River Bridge or Tunnel--Which?, Our Merchant Fleet and Free Ports and more

Reorganizing the Port of New York

Port Commission Plan for Modernizing the Railroad and Shipping Facilities of New York

Better Railway Ticket Selling, Rats and Canvas

Ralph Howard

Outwitting the French Customs

George F. Paul

From the Einstein Contest--IV

The Principle of Relativity--A Statement of What It Is All About, in Ideas of One Syllable By Shinglewood (Hugh Elliot, Chislehurst, Kent, England)

The Balky Motor

Some of the Things to Look for When the Automobile Refuses to Do Its Duty

Victor W. Pag

Canada's New Parliament Buildings

Some of the Architectural Features of Ottawa's Legislative Halls, Now Under Construction

J. H. Armstrong

The Romance of Invention--XX

Thomas Alva Edison --the Man Whose Name Stands for American Invention

C. H. Claudy

Making a Forest to Order

An European Innovation in Preparing the Soil for the Trees Which It Is to Support

Henry Vendelmans

Departments

Correspondence

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions