Scientific American Magazine Vol 124 Issue 25

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 124, Issue 25

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Features

The Peril of Floods, Enormous Waste in Industries and more

What is the Trouble with the Railroads?

An Analysis of the Business Done by Our Transportation Systems, and the Rates They Are Charging for It

Charles Frederick Carter

Controlling the Lower Mississippi

Rozel Gotthold

The Storm King Road

J. F. Springer

Facts About Concrete

How We Are Expanding Our Knowledge of the Behavior of Cements and Aggregates

Robert G. Skerrett

Brief Fallacies About Money

An Attempt to Refute Some of the Ideas on Which Satisfaction with the Present System Rests

Charles E. Duryea

Red Rust in Hot Water Pipes and the Cause, A New Dental Anesthetic and more

The Craters of the Moon

Possible Light on Their Origin , from Experiments with Airplane Bombs at Langley Field

J. F. Springer

Cacti and Their Uses

A Discussion of This Interesting Family and Some of the Things It Is Good For

William A. Murrill

Colorado's Cloud-Burst

Some of the Causes and Results of the Pueblo Flood

Departments

Correspondence

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle

Recently Patented Inventions

New Books, Etc.