Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 21

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 21

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Features

Co-Ordinating our Waterways, The Mystery Towers Explained and more

Putting Waste Metals to Work

Methods and Machines That Make It Profitable for Every Plant to Handle Its Own Junk

Robert G. Skerrett

The Fragrant Weed

Some Interesting Details in the Art of Tobacco Culture as Practiced in This Country

William Henry

The Truth About the Dye Industry

Its Achievements and Its Status, and What Its Continuation Means to America

H. Gardner McKerrow

The Giant of the Skies

The Size and Distance of Betelguese, and a Few Other Items of the Astronomer&s Daily Business

Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation

The Book in Which Is Collected the Material Brought Out by the $5,000 Prize Contest

Radio with the Arc Transmitter

The Remarkable Showing Made by This Type of Apparatus on the Aeolus

Arthur H. Lynch

A Super-Dreadnaught as Target

The Latest German Battleship Baden Sunk by Gunfire and Torpedo

Hector C. Bywater

The Effect of Weight or Pressure

Departments

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions