SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 24, 1911   The full front page is a print of: The Olympic At Her 900-Foot Pier, New York" focusing on the need to create longer piers for the new class of ships.
This was the sister ship to the Titanic and the Britannic, a trio of White Star Line ships of a new, larger class. The Olympic was completed prior to the Titanic and would be in service until 1935.
A related report inside: "Longer Piers For Giant Steamships". Also of interest is an article with 3 photos: "Uncovering the Maine - How the Work at Havana is Progressing".
Complete in 24 pages, disbound, an older repair at the right, blank margin, generally in good condition.

Background: The June 24, 1911 issue of Scientific American (Vol. 104, No. 25) captures a pivotal moment in maritime engineering, published just three days after the RMS Olympic completed her maiden voyage to New York on June 21, 1911. As the lead ship of the White Star Line’s Olympic-class trios preceding the Titanic and Britannic, her unprecedented 882-foot length posed an immediate infrastructure challenge for New York Harbor, as illustrated on the full front-page print of the liner docked at her 900-foot pier and detailed in the accompanying report, "Longer Piers For Giant Steamships," which outlined the War Department's emergency permission to extend Pier 59 with temporary wood structures to accommodate these super-liners. Beyond this groundbreaking ocean liner debut, the complete 24-page issue features an essential engineering report titled "Uncovering the Maine – How the Work at Havana is Progressing," complete with three detailed photographs documenting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' ambitious construction of a massive steel-sheet cofferdam in Havana Harbor to drain the water around the wreckage of the USS Maine for investigation thirteen years after its tragic sinking.