Scientific American Magazine Vol 127 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 127, Issue 6

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Features

With the Editors, December 1922

The Largest Cruising Airdrome

Inventor vs. Forger--I

Early Check Forging and the Transition from Plain Forgery to Raising

Edward H. Smith

Are You a Musician?

Professor Seashore's Specific Psychological Tests for Specific Musical Abilities

Harold Cary

About the Radio Round-Table

Opinions of Radio Leaders Regarding the Past, Present and Future of Broadcasting

Our Point of View, December 1922

What Is There Left To Do?

Some of the Things that Agricultural Science Has Still Before It

D. H. George

The Pulitzer Trophy

A Race of Radiators, Wires and Landing Gears

Archibald Black

A Super-Locomotive With the Latest Improvements, Bud Mutations

Finger-Prints Via Radio

Enlisting the Long Arm of Radio in the Search for Europe's Malefactors

Painting a Wire Fence Without Waste of Paint, Radiators for Aircraft Engines and more

A Square Deal for the Psychics

Criticisms from Various Sources of the James Black Articles, with the Editorial Verdict

J. Malcolm Bird

Lighting the Mississippi

The Illumination that Makes the Father of Waters as Safe by Night as by Day

George H. Dacy

Sleeve-Valve Engines for Motorcycles, Cleaning Wheat at the Thrashing Machine

Flood Control at Kansas City

How a River Is Being Diverted and Carried Through a Hill

Life-Belts and Near-Life-Belts--A Study of Government Regulation and an Invention, A Police Baton Furnished with a Flashlight

When Perforated Paper Goes to Work

How Strips of Paper Can Endow Inanimate Machines with Brains of Their Own

Emanuel Scheyer

The Rigid Track-Layer

The Dry-Cleaning and Dyeing Industry

Some of the Interesting Technical Problems that Have to Be Met

Lloyd E. Jackson

Large Portable Water Tanks, The Air-Cooling of 1923 and more

Millions in Food from Federal Free Seed

The Story of 240,000 Acres of Gardens, and $192,000,000 Worth of Vegetables

George H. Dacy

The New Conservation--I

Up-to-the-Minute Definitions of Waste, and Up-to-the-Minute Procedure for Preventing It

Ray M. Hudson

Gear-Testing Machines, Keeping Springs Young

America's Busiest Radio Station

The Receiving Center at Riverhead, Long Island, and the Principles on Which It Works

A Novel Method of Pumping Water, Recent Developments in British Pelton Wheel Design

Forgery or Genuine?

Some New Laboratory Methods of the French Handwriting Experts

Francis P. Mann

Harvesting Sugar-Beet Seed in Sleds, Iron Ore in Europe and more

Fog Signaling by Polarized Sound

A Simple Arrangement for Determining the Exact Direction from Which a Signal Comes

Anders Bull

Taking Away from a Picture to Get a Larger Picture, The Muscle as a Motor

Blasting a Channel Through a River's Rocky Bottom

How New York Is Meeting the Demand of Big Modern Ships for Harbor Waterways of 40-Ft. Depth

Radio Direction-Finding in Flying Machines

Virgin Wool and Shoddy

What the Microscope Tells Us About Their Make-Up and Identification

Leon Augustus Hausman

Treasures from Cinders

James Playfair McMurrick, Temperatures in the United States and more

Marcus Benjamin

The Naturalist's Corner, December 1922

Chemistry Notes

The Market Place for the Small Advertiser

Departments

Inventions New and Interesting, December 1922

The Service of the Chemist, December 1922

The Heavens in December, 1922

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle, December 1922

Recently Patented Inventions, December 1922

Science Notes, December 1922

Miscellaneous Notes, December 1922

Civil Engineering Notes, December 1922

Electrical Notes, December 1922

Mechanical Engineering Notes, December 1922

Radio Notes, December 1922

Our Readers' Point of View, December 1922

Index To Volume 127, December 1922