Scientific American Magazine Vol 129 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 129, Issue 1

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Features

With the Editors, July 1923

Ocean Travel by Combined Steamship and Airplane

Trapping the Burglar

Clever Devices Put Forward by Inventive Genius for Catching the Prowler at His Work

Edward H. Smith

Building the World's Largest Monolith

A Word Regarding the Far-Reaching Significance of Wilson Dam to Navigation and Industry

Littell McClung

World Metric Standardization, Ro and more

Uncle Sam's Agricultural Proving Grounds

The Federal Farms Where Problems of Vital Import to American Agriculture Are Investigated

Ralph Howard

Our First Test Seances

The Report of the Sub-Committee and Some Details of the Sittings

J. Malcolm Bird

Three Notable Locomotives Which Mark the Trend of Railroading

Are Most Animals Color Blind?

Acrobatic Coal Barges

S. W. Clatworthy

Our Psychic Investigation in Europe--III

Some Details of a Very Noisy Evening with a Private Psychic Circle in London

J. Malcolm Bird

Mathematically Perfect Balls of Lead Called Shot

Where Corn is King

Why Our Agricultural Prosperity Depends Largely on Our Annual Hundred Million Acres of Corn

George H. Dacy

The Fourth Dimension, A New Vitamin Bread and more

When a Bridge Tells its Troubles

A New and Ingenious Device for Measuring the Effect of Traffic on Bridges

Intensity and Duration of Fire

A New Gasoline-Electric Freight Train, Another Cotton Picker and more

Elevation and Range of British Naval Guns

Main Armament of Capital Ships Remains Today as Originally Designed and Constructed

Hector C.

Obelisk-Raising Explained: How the Ancient Egyptian Engineers Employed a Sloping Ramp and a Sand-Pit

Industry in the Philippines

The Golden Opportunity Which this Dependency Presents to American Capital

Vicente Villamin

Fighting the Mosquito

How Minnows, Oil, and Drainage are Freeing Florida of a Leading Enemy of Immigration

D. H. George

Marine Wood Borers at Work, Shop-Made Lawns by the Yard and more

Underpinning the Washington Monument

Enlarging the Foundations to Carry the Five Hundred and Fifty-Foot Shaft

A Canal that Grows Crops in a Barren Country, Harnessing the California River and more

Draining Land With Gasoline

How the Scarcity of Labor has Brought About the Use of Machinery for Marshland Ditching

S. R. Winters

Concrete in Surprising Places, Poisoning by Illuminating Gas

Solving the Street Traffic Problem

Speeding Up Traffic by Separating the Through and the Local Traffic

Digging in Sacred Soil

Research With the Spade in Palestine Since the War

Sawing Stones With Man-Made Stones

How Abrasives are Employed in Cutting and Shaping Marble and Granite for Building Purposes

J. F. Springer

The Physical Basis of Life, Pure Ozone and more

The Airplane-Carrier "Langley"

Departments

Our Point of View, July 1923

Inventions New and Interesting, July 1923

The Service of the Chemist, July 1923

The Heavens in July, 1923

The Motor-Driven Commercial Vehicle, July 1923

Recently Patented Inventions, July 1923

Our Readers' Point of View, July 1923

Science Notes, July 1923

Electrical Notes, July 1923

Mechanical Engineering Notes, July 1923

Civil Engineering Notes, July 1923

Miscellaneous Notes, July 1923

Radio Notes, July 1923