Scientific American Magazine Vol 125 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 125, Issue 6

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Features

The Radio Compass and Navigation, The Bombing Tests and our Naval Policy and more

Robert G. Skerrett

Depth-Bombing from the Air

Results and Lessons of the Sinking of the Frankfurt and Ostfriesland Off the Virginia Coast

Dead Men's Fingers

One of the Most Interesting Groups of Our Less Common Fungous Growths

William Alphonse Murrill

Where Oil Occurs

A Brief Description of the Rocks and Sands in Which Petroleum Is Found

C. H. Messerly

The Red Sea Dollar

How a Trade Coin of More Than a Century's Standing Is Being Retired

Frank Parker Stockbridge

The Last Word in Power Houses, The World's Largest Watch and more

Some of the Remarkable Features of the New Delaware Station That Typify Present-Day Practice

William A. McGarry

Towing the Wrecked Car, A One-Piece Welded Structural Frame and more

Preparing Bamboos for the Market, Alcohol as Locomotive Fuel

H. L. Wright

Postage Stamps in the Making, Stars of Composite Spectra

S. R. Winters

Sodium Hypochlorite, Comparative Value of Timber Cut from Live and Dead Trees

Departments

Correspondence

The Heavens in August, 1921

Inventions New and Interesting

Recently Patented Inventions