Volume 125, Issue 17
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Features
Tours and Detours
Impressions of the Through Automobile Highways of the Eastern and Central States
The "Big Five"
Our Bid for the Transatlantic Passenger Trade
The Chemistry of the Volatile
Some Interesting Facts About a Relatively Obscure Phase of Chemistry
Naval Strength of United States, Great Britain and Japan
How Age of Ships Will Affect Relative Fighting Efficiency by 1924
The Cricket on the Wire
From Opium to Hash Eesh
Startling Facts Regarding the Narcotic Evil and Its Many Ramifications Throughout the World
A Photographic Innovation
What Do You Know?
The Edison Questionaire--Its Aim, Its Results, and Its Collateral Significance
From Easel to Cover
Offset Lithography as Applied to the Scientific American Covers
Our Point of View
Some Aspects of Bridge Architecture
A Bridge Should Combine Grace and Dignity With Strength and Permanence
From Trireme to Dreadnought
The Development of the Warship from Ancient to Modern Times
A New Engine Fuel, Business as Usual While Moving
Can the Airplane Be Made Safe?
Why Airplane Fatalities Take Place and What Is Being Done to Make Flying Safe
The Dissymmetry of the Body and Its Striking Results, Prolonging the Life of Insects by Variable Temperatures
Grouping Our Power Plants
The Superpower Survey's Impressive Figures, Which Afford Plenty of Food for Thought
The New Marine Salvage System
Lifting a Sunken Ship by an Equalized Pull Upon Her Main Frames
Rolling Pure Nickel
A Recent Metallurgical Development That Puts This Metal on a New Basis
Chemically Pure Nitrogen from the Air
Fabrics Under the Microscope
Some Methods in the Microscopical Examination of Textile Fibers
Swimmer's Cramp--Its Causes and How They May Be Avoided
Making the Flood Dam Itself
A Simple Wire Netting Structure That Gathers Mud, Boulders and Miscellaneous Debris to Form a Barrier
Some Simple Pointers on How to Keep a Car
The Radio Link
Extending the Usual Telephone Service Bridging Present Gaps with Radio Telephone Installations
Electrostatic Adhesion Phenomenon and its Application to Radio
Why Not a Nation-Wide Building Code?
Research Work of the Bureau of Standards with a View to Learning the Truth About Building Construction
Lightening the Draftsman's Load
Labor Saving Devices That Go Beyond the Familiar Square, Triangle and Rule
Steel Direct from the Ore, A Gravity Spray System for Orchard
A Study in Offspring Herds
What the New York Zoological Garden Has Done in the Way of Supplying Bison and Deer to Others
Linotype Slugs and Catalogues
Printing a University Library Catalogue from Linotype Title-a-Line Slugs
A Farmer's Loading Station
The French Suggest a 200-Mile Gun
Super-Range Guns Are Possible, but Costly and Futile
The Power of a Modern Gun and of Thunder, Glycerine from Sugar
Tunnelling the Selkirks
How the Pneumatic Placing of Concrete Has Solved a Difficult Problem of the Tunnel Builder
A Troublesome Problem in Stack-Wrecking, The Defectoscope and Elevator Accidents
Recording Locomotive Operation, The True Physiological Nature of Shock
The Truth About the Devil-Fish
Correcting Various Erroneous Views Which Have Been Spread by the Highly Interesting if Inaccurate Fictionists
Harvesting and Threshing in a Single Operation, Harvesting Without Reaping
The Miner's Dump-Heap Goes to Work
How Values Are Being Recovered from Ores That Were Once Discarded
Marking the Detours
When More Voltage Means More Distance
The Limits of Long-Distance Electric Power Transmission in Terms of Today and Tomorrow
Applied Chemistry Notes
Condensed Information Gathered from Chemical Journals and Other Sources