Original issue of the weekly Scientific American Magazine. Every issue is packed with great articles and lots of B&W illustrations. An awesome peek into the scientific discoveries of the early 20th century.

Date: January 18,1919

Size: 16 1/8" x 11 3/8"

Condition: Wear and possible small tears along the edges and binding. See photos.

Front Cover Artwork: Damming a river with pillars of concrete.

Articles Include:

• An Ingenious Irrigation Scheme, Forest Fires of Spontaneous Origin and more
• Getting More Messages Over Our Wires - How the Traffic Capacity of Telegraph and Telephone Circuits Has Been Increased Three-fold
• What Machinery is doing for the Walnut Industry - How Production Is Enlarged, Prices Stabilized, and Wastes Eliminated By Howard C. Kegley
• Battleship Strength of the Five Leading Naval Powers - Analysis of the Standing of the Allied Navies in Dreadnoughts, Predreadnoughts and Battle-Cruisers
• Guns for the Fighting Front - American Heavy Artillery Designed and Built for Our Armies in France 
• Fitting the Shoe to the Soldier - The Evolution of a Satisfactory System of Measuring the Soldier's Foot
• Deterioration in Ultra-Violet Radiation of Mercury Lamps

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