Scientific American Magazine Vol 125 Issue 16

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 125, Issue 16

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Features

Eliminating the Planked Railway Highway Crossings

E. R. Mundorff

Seeds and Age, Damaged in Transit and more

Man-Made Lightning

Experiments with One-Million-Volt Transmission that Point the Way to Future Power Distribution

A Fuel Comparison

H. F. Crafts

Some New Mechanical Amusement Devices, A Centrifugal Concrete Mixer

The Story of Cork

Where the Raw Material for Stoppers and Floats Comes from, and How it is Obtained

J. F. Springer

The U. S. Collection of Animal Parasites

S. R. Winters

Saving Uncle Sam's Pennies

The United States Bureau of Efficiency, and What It Is Doing to Conserve Federal Funds Abstracted from a paper read before the National Association of Manufacturers on September 13th, 1921

Herbert D. Brown

Blast Furnace Slag

What it is, and How it may be used as a Building Material

Richard Gruen

Our Latest Science--Eugenics

Its more important Findings and Its Bearing upon the Future of the Race

Albert A. Hopkins

The Aviator's Tell-Tales

How the Pilot Keeps Track of Distances and Speeds, and Stays in the Air on an Even Keel

William R. Andrews

Mixing Liquids by Machine

Jacques Boyer

Zebras in New York

What the Metropolis Can Show in These Striped Creatures Which Are Less Docile than They Look. Illustrations by New York Zoological Society

William T. Hornaday

Testing the Purity of Quinine

Soil Acidity, The Diver from a Biological Point of View