The SciencesDecember 4, 2015
Advanced Gun Technology, 1915
Stories by Dan Schlenoff
Dan Schlenoff was a contributing editor at Scientific American and edited the 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago column for one seventh of the magazine's history.
EngineeringDecember 1, 2015
Aviation in 1915: A Weapon of War
The SciencesNovember 27, 2015
"Tin Hats" Return, 1915
TechnologyNovember 20, 2015
"Primitive Warfare" in 1915
CultureNovember 13, 2015
Clearing Explosives, 1915
The SciencesNovember 6, 2015
The Phonograph Goes to War, 1915
TechnologyNovember 1, 2015
Electrical Inventions, 1915 [Slide Show]
EngineeringNovember 1, 2015
Electricity in 1915: Transporting People and Finding Buried Bombs
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
The SciencesOctober 30, 2015
Electronic Ears for Air Defense, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 30, 1915
The SciencesOctober 23, 2015
U.S. Navy and the Arms Race, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 23, 1915
The SciencesOctober 16, 2015
Electronics Fight Submarines, 1915
The SciencesOctober 9, 2015
Fate of Torpedoed Ships, 1915
The SciencesOctober 2, 2015
War Comes to the Alps, 1915
The SciencesOctober 1, 2015
Natural History, 1915 [Slide Show]
A look at how we saw the natural world a century ago
TechnologySeptember 25, 2015
Aircraft Communication, 1915
The SciencesSeptember 18, 2015
Bigger Guns, 1915
PolicySeptember 11, 2015
Care of the Severely Wounded, 1915
TechnologySeptember 4, 2015
Aircraft Design Ahead of its Time, 1915
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2015
Good and Bad Inventions from 1865 [Slide Show]
Optimistic Ideas from the Scientific American Archive
The SciencesAugust 28, 2015
Eyes in the Sky, 1915
The SciencesAugust 21, 2015
Big Guns and Obsolescence, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: August 21, 1915
TechnologyAugust 14, 2015
Miniature Locomotive for War Work, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: August 14, 1915
The SciencesAugust 7, 2015
A Year of War, 1915
A year into the Great War there was an interesting difference between the accuracy of reporting in some articles and the haze of obscurity drawn by the military censors over still-volatile events.
PolicyAugust 1, 2015
World War I: The War at Sea, 1915