Scientific American Chronicles WWI
World War I is a compelling primary source for armchair historians and scholars alike.
A Century of Dreadnoughts, How much it Costs to Kill a Man in Battle, and more
August 29, 1914 — Percival A. Hislam
Night Landing Signals for War Aeroplanes
Two Luminous Circles That Help Airmen to Alight in Safety by Our Berlin Correspondent
August 29, 1914
Russia's Giant War Flyers
The Sikorsky Aeroplanes and How They Are Constructed
August 22, 1914 — H. Bannerman-Phillips
Subsistence in the Present War
August 22, 1914
The Prospects of Aerial Fighting in the Present War
What May be Expected of Dirigibles and Aeroplanes
Also includes a two-page spread of anti-aircraft and other weapons
August 22, 1914 — Carl Dienstbach
The Air Bomb
A New Method of Mining the Air and of Thwarting an Attack by Flying Machine or Dirigible
August 15, 1914 — Carl Dienstbach and Joseph A. Steinmetz
The War and Our Dilemma, The Napoleon of the Twentieth Century, and more
Three editorials. These are the first comments by Scientific American on the outbreak of World War I.
August 15, 1914