Scientific American Supplement, 1915. Volume LXXX. nos. 2061-2086. New York: Munn & Co., Inc, 1915. First Edition. [11702]
25 issues, complete, bound in blue cloth. 16 x 11 1/2 inches, ex college library with standard markups including white labels on the binding and an ink name stamp on the covers. 416 pages with index; many b/w photos. Good. Hardcover.
July 3, 1915 to December 18, 1915. A WWI issue with articles pertaining to scientific developments and the war. The cover stories in this volume are:
A hydro-aeroplane reconnoitering the Turkish batteries: the Campaign of the Allies on the Dardenelles
Canada in the Panama-Pacific Exposition
The Manufacture of Chicory in France
In the New York Aquarium
Excavating Buried Babylon
Watching the Enemy from the Fighting Line: French engineers working a military searchlight in the Champagne district.
Seeing Under Water: How things look from a fish's point of view.
The United States Fleet in the Panama Canal
A Mammoth Driving Wheel Lathe
Giant German and Austrian Cranes: Required in Navy Yards for placing Turrets, Guns and Machinery
Irrigation Works of India
The Telegraph and Telephone in the German Army
Some Rare Toads in the New York Zoological Park
In the Crater of Halemaumau, Hawaii, January, 1915
Kiel, the Great German Naval Base
A Mining Camp without a Peer - Bingham, Utah
Dynamiting a Derelict: A diver in full costume making a sensational descent.
Heavy Machinery used in Automobile Building
Submarines that crossed the Ocean: Five submarines of American design for the British navy at the builders yard in Canada.
An Important Terminal Improvement - Train tunnel under the Detroit River.
Modern Methods of Composing Type
A Burning Oil Well
Twin Falls in Yoho Valley, Canadian Rockies
The German Potassium Salts [mining]
A Scene along the line of the Leuk-Leukerbad Railway
