Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 19

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 19

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Features

Tilting Grain Cars in All Directions to Empty Them, The Roger Bacon Manuscript and more

John Anson Ford

America's Greatest Dam

The Muscle Shoals Project on Which Congressional Economy Is About to Force a Halt

W. B. West

Looking Backward Four Thousand Years

The Story of a Digger's Luck That Opened an Egyptian Wonder House

Albert A. Hopkins

Fuel Conservation Opinions--I

What Leading Consumers of Fuel Have to Say About the Present and the Future

Austin C. Lescarboura

Cold Vulcanization of Rubber

A New English Process with Many Advantages Over the Old Ones

F. Rowlinson

Machine-Made Window Glass

How the Great Sheets of This Difficult Material Are Made and Handled

Robert G. Skerrett

How to Tell Birch, Beech and Maple Apart

Departments

Correspondence

The Heavens in May, 1921

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions

New Books, Etc.