Scientific American Magazine Vol 125 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 125, Issue 2

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Features

A Noble Presidential Precedent, How Fast do Birds Fly?, Important Patent Legislation

Electricity, Science, Aeronautics

A Giant Junk Yard

A Plant that Handles Anything from Discarded Battleships and Abandoned Railroads to Old Tin Cans

William A. McGarry

Making Satisfactory Glass from American Clays

S. R. Winters

A Radio Link in Our Telephone System

Frank B. Howe

Hydraulic Power Under a Mile-High Head

Some Interesting Details of a Remarkable Pelton-Wheel Installation in Switzerland

Science Coming into its Own

The National Research Council and Other Research Organizations and Some of Their Achievements

Charles Frederick Carter

A Chat with Madame Curie

What the Discoverer of Radium Thinks of Us and What We Think of Her

Austin C. Lescarboura

Weapons at Sea

The Place of Aircraft and the Battleship

E. G. Allen

Lightning

A Brief Statement of Its Nature, with Some Figures and Some Photographs

Jerome Lachenbruch

Counting Bacteria

J. Boyer

Daylight Projection of Opaque Subjects

George Gaulois

Departments

The Service of the Chemist

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions

New Books, Etc.