Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 16

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 16

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Features

A New Form of Hydraulic Propulsion, Tidal Power in France and more

Germany's Brown Coal

How Teuton Chemists Have Converted the Lowly Swamp Muck Into an Industrial Cinderella

Robert G. Skerrett

Testing Roadbed Conditions by the Resistance Method

S. R. Winters

From Brewing Beer to Raising Mushrooms

M. A. Henry

Solving the Labor Problem--V

Educating and Training the Man to Fit Him to His Job

Charles Frederick Carter

Preventing the Roll of Ships

Past and Present Schemes for Stabilizing Ships and Why the Gyroscopic Stabilizer Is Practical

J. F. Springer

Finding Jobs for Radium

Facts and Figures Regarding the Many Uses to Which This Most Precious of Metals Is Put

Harry A. Mount

The Battleship and the Junk Heap

Is the Battleship Still the Backbone of the Fleet Or Is It Being Replaced by Other Craft?

Lyne O. Battle

Departments

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

New Books, Etc.

Recently Patented Inventions