Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 14

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 14

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Features

A Call for the Automatic Stop, Do You Want an Airship? and more

Twelve Hundred Charts at a Third of a Cent

A Few Words About a Necessary Expenditure for Which Congress Has Failed to Provide

C. H. Claudy

The Why of Luminous Paints

M. A. Henry

When Humpty-Dumpty Travels

Harry A. Mount

Making the Most of Niagara

Projects Looking to the better Utilization of This Great Water Power

Robert G. Skerrett

A Problem of Electric Drive

The Advantages of the Diesel-Electric System Over the Straight Diesel Drive

Jobs for Sawdust

Some of the Useful Ends to Which This Waste Material Is Being Put

S. R. Winters

The Musical Hospital

How Flattened and Fractured Brass, Wood and Stringed Instruments Are Repaired

Albert A. Hopkins

Optical Tricks with Electric Sparks, Reclamation Project in Northeastern Brazil

W. A. Kimball

An Extinct Sea Lizard from Western Kansas

Charles W. Gilmore

Departments

Correspondence

The Heavens in April, 1921

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions