Scientific American Magazine Vol 126 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 126, Issue 3

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Features

With the Editors, March 1922

Winged Surveyors, March 1922

What Aerial Photography Is Doing for Industry and Science

Sherman M. Fairchild

The 1922 Car

What the New York Automobile Show Tells About the Trend of Design for the Coming Year

J. Malcolm Bird

Moving Niagara into Canada

The Great Power Canal That Carries the Lake Erie Waters to the Edge of the Bluff at Queenston

J. F. Springer

Radio for Everybody

What the Radio Telephone Service Means and How It Can Be Applied in the Home and Business

Austin C. Lescarboura

Research Settles the Problem of Tunnel Ventilation

The Best System for Supplying Fresh Air to the Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel Tube Is Determined

Robert G. Skerrett

Artificial Plants in the Making

The Study of Osmosis Under Natural and Artificial Conditions

E. Bade

The Lincoln Highway of the Telephone

The Romance and the Technical Difficulties Met in Laying a Giant Cable Across the Mountains of Pennsylvania

Harry A. Mount

Measuring the Growth of Trees

The Yacht of a Viking Queen, The Effect of Exercise on Blood Constituents

Charles d'Emery

A Recorder that Speaks, An X-ray Outfit in a Hand-Satchel

The Mount Everest Reconnaissance

Further Details of the Effort to Locate a Possible Route to the Top of the World

The Physical Basis of Heredity

Dominant and Recessive Characteristics: How They Arise and How They Work

James B. Kelly

Quantity Production of Relief Maps

A New Process Whereby These May Be Had Quickly and in Large Numbers

Alfred Gradenwitz

The Successful Cotton Picker, The Braille Typewriter for the Blind

From Common Carp to Fanciest of Gold Fish

Some of the Wide Variations Which Are Comprised Within a Single Scientific Classification

Ralph Howard

Making Tea from Holly, Thistle Gardening in San Francisco

G. A. Orb, S. R. Winters

Roentgen-Ray Photography

Some Recent Applications of the X-Ray, and Some Bizarre Results

P. J. Risdon

Salvaging Fuel from Boiler-Furnace Refuse, Electrical Operation of Suction Dredger, and more

Freehand Drawing in the Industrial World

How Engineers Are Being Trained to Use the Unaided Hand to Supplement Drawing Instruments

R. E. Plimpton

Scrapping the Battleships

Torch Replaces Cold Chisel in Converting a Fleet to Junk

J. Bernard Walker

The Organic Chemistry of Soils

Spectacles for the Motion-Picture Camera

How the Vision of the Lens Is Modified to Produce Fog Scenes and Other Effects

Charles Alma Byers

Revising Street Intersections With the Aid of a Model, The Freight-Car Liner, and more

More Comfort with Less Work

A Survey of the Latest Devices That Tend Toward Placing Country Life on a Par with City Life

Failures of Bronze and Iron Bell Clappers, How the Color of the Ground Affects Plant Growth

To Put a Diamond to the Test, Musical Strings and where they Come from

A New Caterpillar Development

British Efforts to Save Power and Increase Speed by Means of a Track That Will Yield to Local Obstacles

F. Rowlinson

Caterpillar Ordnance

Duraluminum

The Properties and Commercial Possibilities of This New Alloy

William B. Stout

Failure of St. Mary's Bascule Bridge

How a Girder in the Counterweight Truss Gave Way and Stopped the Bridge Traffic

August Kuhlmann

The Oppau Disaster: Facts and Conjectures as to its Cause

Paul J. Mallmann

Atomic Structure

Learning While Earning

The Organization, Operation, and Results of an Automobile Factory Trade School

The Human Atmosphere

The Visibility of the Human Aura Demonstrated to the Layman

Albert A. Hopkins

The Vacuum-Bottle Milk-Car, The Cornerless Rock-Crusher

Departments

Our Point of View, March 1922

The Service of the Chemist, March 1922

Inventions New and Interesting, March 1922

The Heavens in March, 1922

Recently Patented Inventions, March 1922

Miscellaneous Notes, March 1922

Science Notes, March 1922

Civil Engineering Notes, March 1922

Radio Notes, March 1922

Mechanical Engineering Notes, March 1922

Patents and Trade-Marks, March 1922

Electrical Notes, March 1922

Notes and Queries, March 1922