Scientific American Magazine Vol 136 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 136, Issue 6

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Features

The Cost of Oranges

Few People Realize the Endless Efforts the California Citrus Fruit Growers Have Made and Are Still Making to Fight the Pests that Attack the Oranges We Eat

T. D. A. Cockerell

Giving a Voice to Motion Pictures

The Problem of Synchronization Has Been Solved. Good Sound Reproduction Has Made One System Practicable

A. P. Peck

Three Coming Events

An Eclipse of the Sun, One of the Moon, and the Arrival of a Comet Will Keep Astronomers Interested During the Month of June

Henry Norris Russell

Whaling Out of the Golden Gate

"Science Has Taken the Danger……..the Chase Still Remains"

Franklin S. Clark

Practical Television Demonstrated

One-way Transmission of Images of Moving Objects Marks Another Step Forward in the Telephone Art

Louis S. Treadwell

A Two Hundred Mile-Per-Hour Car

How the Physicist, the Chemist and Wind-tunnel Tests Collaborated in Producing the Car Which Made 203.79 Miles Per Hour On Daytona Beach

J. Bernard Walker

Physicist and Golf Expert Still Disagree

On These Pages, Prof. Sheldon and P. A. Vaile Present Further Arguments On the Physics of Golf Strokes and the Flight of Balls

H. H. Sheldon

Radio's New Kingdom

Amateurs Now Talk on the Five-meter Waveband

Orrin E. Dunlap

Shears and Scissors Ninety Percent Hand-made

Models Show Ancient Egyptian Life and Industry

Turbine Locomotive for British Railroad

Engine Is in Two Sections, Coupled by Ball and Socket Joint

F. C. Livingstone

Inventors Who Have Achieved Commercial Success, June 1927

What Idea to Work On, Rather Than How to Promote Inventions, Is the Subject of the Sixth Article of This Series

Milton Wright

Blind Editor Publishes Journal for the Blind

Uncle Sam, Spendthrift--X

We Have 55,000,000 Potential Horsepower In Our Rivers, of Which We Waste 44,000,000

J. Bernard Walker

Caves

To Young and Old There Is a Romantic Mystery In Cave Hunting and In the Exploration of Dim, Underground Passageways

Guy E. Mitchell

From the Scrap-book of Science--Camera Shots of Scientific Happenings, June 1927

Sea Elephants Preserved for Posterity

These Ungainly Denizens of the Southwestern Coast of North America Have Been Nearly Exterminated, But Are Now Being Protected

John L. Von Blon

In the World of Chemistry, June 1927

A Department Devoted to the Advancements Made in Industrial and Experimental Chemistry

D. H. Killeffer

Applied Science for the Amateur, June 1927

A department devoted to the presentation of useful ideas wherein will be found material of practical value for those who are mechanically inclined

A. P. Peck

Departments

Our Point of View, June 1927

The Month in Medical Science, June 1927

Novel Devices for the Shop and the Home, June 1927

The Scientific American Digest, June 1927

Learning to Use Our Wings, June 1927

In The Editors's Mail, June 1927

Radio Notes, June 1927

The Heavens in June 1927

Commercial Property News, June 1927

Patents Recently Issued, June 1927