Scientific American Magazine Vol 127 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 127, Issue 4

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Features

With the Editors, October 1922

Where Necessity Was the Mother of Invention

Safes and Safe-Breakers--I

The Story of the Everlasting Struggle Between the Safe Builder and the Bank Robber

Edward H. Smith

The Spirit-Photograph Fraud

The Evidence of Trickery, and a Demonstration of the Tricks Employed

James Black

Building a Bridge Within a Bridge

A Plan for Strengthening the Brooklyn Bridge and Enlarging Its Carrying Capacity

Colloidal Metals That Cure Human Ills, Ammonia Table

Railroad Electrification in Chile

An Extensive Undertaking to Insure the National Prosperity of Our South American Neighbor

William H. Easton

Our Point of View, October 1922

The Truth About the Brooklyn Bridge

Hypnosis and Surgery

Bell and His Telephone

Some of the Little Known Facts About the Great Inventor and His Work

Taking the Roughness Out of Our Roads

The "Lusitania" and the Submarine Salvor

Some of the Schemes Proposed for Dealing with the War's Most Famous Wreck

Robert G. Skerrett

New Orleans' Big Port Improvement

Preparing for the Future World Trade of the Southern Metropolis

S. G. Roberts

The Parsons Steam Turbine

Story of the Early Struggles and Final Triumph of a Great Invention

Hector C. Bywater

Iron and Steel in Brazil

What Is Cold Light?

W. van B. Roberts

New Tasks for the Weatherman

A Candidate for the British-American Cup Contest

The Electro-Magnet at the Throttle

Details of Still Another Type of Automatic Train Control Now Being Developed

Charles W. Burrows

The Automatic Collision-Dodger, A Successful Marl Pump and more

Our Strenuous Geological Survey--III

How Geologists and Water Engineers Keep Track of Our Natural Resources

Guy Elliot Mitchell

Sewer Pipe Investigation

The Golden Age of Peru

Speculations as to Its Magnitude, and Relics from It Recently Added to Our Museums

Cannon-Ball Tests of Concrete, The Age of Insects and more

The Thunderbolts of Peace

Modern Industrial Explosives -- Their Manufacture and Use

Arthur La Motte

Chemistry and Preventive Dentistry

C. C. Vogt

Colloids and Your Health

Ismar Ginsberg

Harvesting Sugar Cane by Machine, Making the Use of Gas in the Home, Safe

The Twenty-Hour Week

Why It Is Not Possible for the Coal Miner to Work Steadily, and What This Means to the Industry

The Green Japanese Beetle

New Jersey's Efforts to Subdue a New and Dangerous Pest

William H. Cole

Speeding Up the Auto-Tag Industry, Symbiosis in the Forest and more

The Microscopy of Foods

A Study of Starch, the World's Premier Alimental Substance

Leon Augustus Hausman

Production of Rust by Carbonic Acid

The Ultraviolet in Sunlight

Industrial Uses and Limitations of this Portion of the Solar Radiation

M. Luckiesh

Practical Uses for the Spectroscope, Secret Radio Communication

Making Wool Moth-Proof

Hearing Through a Walking Stick

Information Leaflet Issued By Patent Office

Departments

Inventions New and Interesting, October 1922

The Service of the Chemist, October 1922

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle, October 1922

The Heavens in October, 1922

Recently Patented Inventions, October 1922

Electrical Notes, October 1922

Miscellaneous Notes, October 1922

Mechanical Engineering Notes

Civil Engineering Notes, October 1922

Science Notes, October 1922

Radio Notes, October 1922

Notes and Queries, October 1922