Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 18

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Features

Phantom Ships, Measuring Impact Effects on Roads and more

American Lignite Coals

Canada Blazes the Way to Put Them on a Par with Anthracite

Robert G. Skerrett

What Happens to Ground Water and Why

S. R. Winters

Recruits for the World's Biggest Fish Show

James Anderson

The Vest-Pocket Automobile

European Super-Flivvers that Are Designed to Get 75 Miles, or More, Out of a Gallon of Gas

Banking Electricity for Universal Use

Making Use of Water Storage and Transmission Lines for Providing Power at Low Costs

Reginald A. Fessenden

A City Without Water

How Winnipeg Brought the Essential Fluid 100 Miles Across a Barren Plain

J. F. Springer

With the Engineers of Industry

A Department Devoted to the Physical Problems of the Plant Executive

Dyspepsia After Six Months

Departments

Correspondence

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions

New Books, Etc.