Scientific American Magazine

Most Sharks Are Not Man Eaters, But Efforts to Whitewash the Man-Eating Reputation of the Fierce Great White Shark Are a Total Failure

With An Apparatus Which Turns Light Off and On In One Thousand Millionth of a Second, It Has Been Shown That Light Quanta Must Be Less Than a Few Feet In Length

The Widespread Risk of Earthquakes Is Poorly Realized. Earthquake Resistant Buildings Are Entirely Practicable Without Excessive Cost

In England the Recent Excavation of a Silted-up Lake Bed Has Revealed New and Incontestable Records of Earlier and Extinct Races of Man

The Ten-Million-Dollar Mitsui Building in Tokio Is a Veritable Man-Built Gibraltar

New Design Conserves Space, Is Economical In Operation, and Provides Privacy for Passengers

Perfected System is Economical, Reliable, Simple in Operation, and is Claimed to Reduce Fatigue of the Workman

Although He Had Retired, an Inventing Problem to be Solved Lured Percy Gardner Back Into Business

Newly Performed Research Limits the Earth's Age to 4,000,000,000 Years

Without Provision for Greater Water Storage, the Canal Cannot Much Longer Take Care of Increased Traffic

What Fire and Burning Ashes Did for Pompeii, Water Did for the Sister City, Herculaneum, Preserving Her Priceless Works of Art in Mud. They Are Now Being Brought to Light by Excavations

We Owe to the Indian Well Over Half of Our Great Agricultural Wealth. Potatoes, Maize, Cacao, Beans, the Peanut, Rubber and Other Plants Were Domesticated Here Long Before Columbus Discovered America

Evacuation of the Territory Which Will Be Affected Has Already Begun

Dirigible Has Accommodations for One Hundred Passengers and Will Carry a Crew of Forty

The Elimination of Grades and Curves is a Great Factor in Decreasing Accidents on Our National Highways

Only Ninety Seconds Required For Complete Sending and Receiving of Photographs

Reproducing Piano Rolls Contain Explanatory Notes Which are Thrown On Screen While Music is Played

Many of the Results of Hypnotism Are in Dispute. The Author Puts Forth Some Interesting Arguments

Only a Few Miles From Each of Us Exist Sub-Zero Temperatures and Winds of Tremendous Velocity

In France They Are Developing This Vehicle Into An Efficient Battle Steed

The Man or Woman Who Has a Garden Plot Will Welcome the Announcement of These New Aids

A Department Devoted to the Presentation of Useful Ideas. Material of Value to All Will Be Found Here