Technical World Magazine - June 1915
Front Cover, Technical World Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, June 1915. GGA Image ID # 1a024ca618
The June 1915 issue of Technical World featured articles on Why You Are Rich or Poor, Men Who Probe the Infinite, Our First Submarine Loss, Squeezing Gasoline from Gas, and more.
Technical World Magazine was the 1915 version of the Popular Science and Mechanics Magazines of today. Nice glimpse of historical science, inventions, life and items in the news -- written for a general audiance.
Contents
The Volcano That Fought for the Nation
by Merwin Delaway
Many people are surprised to learn that the real defenses of our Pacific Coast cities lie thousands of miles over the ocean to the westward. The keystone of this distant system, and how it operates, is herewith described424
Why You Are Rich or Poor
by Martin D. Stevers
Instead of the thousand and one usual explanations offered for this problem, we present herewith some really fruitful suggestions that will afford genuine help to anyone who is anxious to get ahead - Page 430
Men Who Probe the Infinite
by William T. Walsh
A few devoted scientists, who spend their lives in work that yields no money or results of material value, do not see how their chosen occupation involves the great romance portrayed in this article - Page 436
Our First Submarine Loss
Pictures of the significant and tragic loss of the F-4, which brought sorrow not only because of the brave men who died, but because, until it happened, the United States was distinguished from other powers in that it had lost no submarine craft - Page 442
Fifty Shops Given to Clerks
by Harry H. Dunn
A striking example of the sort of practical philanthropy that benefits the recipient and the community, is this magnificent gift valued at half a million dollars, which was made to his employes by a New Orleans business man - Page 444
Actors in the Great War Drama
Men and machines that are taking prominent parts in the shifting scenes of the great struggle - Page 449
Squeezing Gasoline from Gas
by C. H. Claudy
For many years, untold millions have been thrown away because the process here described was not known - Page 454
To Turn New York into a Forest
by J Burr Bell
Why and how efforts are now being made to change the greater part of this State into densely wooded country - Page 457
Real Color Photography at Last
by George Frank Wörts
A new process perfected by the father of color printing methods, that solves the problem of taking colored pictures, is here described - Page 459
Concrete Sea-Wall Battered Down
by Charles Alma Byers
Where Nature once more taught man that he is not supreme - Page 461
Picturing the Silkworm at Work
by Hanby Carver
How scientists and anaesthetics played a part in procuring films which show this unique feature of animal life - Page 468
Wins Wealth with a Hose
by George B. Dolliver
A single stream of water that in two years created a fortune for a plucky engineer - Page 471
Radium to Aid the Farmer
by Robert H. Moulton
The reason why the most expensive substance on earth has been enlisted in the fight for more and better crops - Page 472
Scenery to Order
by Charles W. Meighan
An unusual case where asoulless corporation" enhanced rather than destroyed the natural grandeur of the canyon in which it set up its power plant - Page 474
The Bad Man of the Movies
By Harold Cary
How a certain actor amassed a fortune by appealing to an obscure but powerful trait in American character - Page 480
Watching the Auto Grow Up
By Carl Howard
Tendencies that are influencing designers and buyers, and shaping the automobile of the future - Page 485
The Machine That Thinks
By C. M. Morrison
This marvelous device surpasses all other so-called "thinking machines", because it really possesses features characteristic of the human intellect - Page 492
Railroad Taps Death Valley
By Burton Anderson
An engineering feat that robs the most deadly spot on the North American continent of its terrors - Page 498
Cafeteria for Hogs
By Frank G. Moorhead
How the despised "porker" disproved the pet theories of scientists when he was given a chance to show what he could do for himself - Page 501
Sticks for Train Orders
By Von Clayton Miner
The old Grecian method of handing a sta , or reed, from runner to runner, has been adopted for controlling tragic movements on a great railroad - Page 506
A Few Episodes
Unique and startling ways in which members of the various armed forces of Europe are risking their lives, shown in photographs - Page 508
Made by Our Readers
Twenty-five dollars distributed among seven prize winners - Page 513
Banishing the Lockjaw Horror
By Donald Wilhelm
How the Great War gave an American scientist an opportunity to rob this most gruesome disease of its terrors - Page 518
To Help the Weather Man Guess Better
By F. W. L. Peebles
A new device that warrants us in expecting better guesses in the future - Page 520
Blowing off Steam
The best humor found in our contemporaries - Page 526
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TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE
Publication Office: R. T. MILLER. Jr., Publisher Eastern Advertising Office:
Drexel Avenue and 58th St., Chicago 1702 Flatiron Building. New York
Copyright, 1915, by Technical World Magazine
Published monthly—Entered at the Postoffice, Chicago. Ill.. as second-class mail matter
