Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 20

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 20

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Features

A Giant Among Mine Hoists, Who Is Delaying Disarmament? and more

Keeping Our Railroads Up to the Mark

Pneumatic Apparatus That Constitutes the Prime Factor in Trunk-Line Maintenance of Way

Robert G. Skerrett

Motorizing the Rural Church

O. R. Geyer

Canada's Big Oil Strike

Thomas M. Fraser

Fuel Conservation Opinions--II

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

Austin C. Lescarboura

Farming with Electricity

A Hundred-Thousand Acre Tract That Is Fully Equipped with Modern Machinery

Ralph Howard

When Oysters Are in Season

How the Raw and the Canned Products Are Prepared for the Markets

S. R. Winters

Fixed Stars That Are Not Fixed

How Their Motions Are Detected by Making Them Wink at Us

J. F. Springer

Departments

Correspondence

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions