Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 15

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 15

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Features

Army Engineers Report Against Ocean Ship Canal, The Battle of the Brakes and more

Uncle Sam's Artificial Fish

The Hatchery Work of the United States Forest Service

S. R. Winters

The Civil War Carved in Granite

James Anderson

Logging by Electricity

Alfred Longville

Some Special Uses of Redwood

The Pride of California's Forests and Some of the Roles That It Plays

Arthur L. Dahl

Rails and Railroads

Some Facts and Figures of the Annual Traffic in New and Old Steel Rails

Robert G. Skerrett

Two Hundred Thousand Photographs per Minute

Eliminating the Shutter and Intricate Intermittent Movement to Speed Up Motion Pictures

C. H. Claudy

The British Fleet of Today

A Detailed Account of the Drastic Reductions in the Strength of the British Navy

Hector C. Bywater

Departments

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions

New Books, etc.