Scientific American Magazine Vol 139 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 139, Issue 3

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Features

Among the "Blacks" of Western Australia

A White Man Visits One of Their Villages and Witnesses Their Odd Tribal Dances and Customs

Clark Wissler

From the Scrap-Book of Science, September 1928

Three Centuries of Natural Philosophy

Although Science Has Apparently Come of Age, Only the Short-Sighted Dare Predict That It Has Passed Its Vigor

W. F. G. Swann

Animating Jupiter

For the First Time Direct Motion Pictures of a Rotating Planet Have Been Made-- Astronomical Correspondence from England

Henry Norris Russell

Taming a Turbulent Torrent

Unique Concrete Withstand Forms for Preventing Disastrous Erosion St. Francis Dam Break Flood

E. T. Scott

Byrd's Proposed Antarctic Route

Naval Adequacy--I

Naval Bases Constitute a Primary Element of Naval Strength. The United States Has But a Few, Many of Which Are Woefully Inadequate

N. H. Goss

Extinct Animals of California

Fossil Remains of Creatures Which Lived Thousands of Years Ago Have Been Exhumed in California

Charles H. Sternberg

When Art Replaces Ugliness

A Section of the Slums of Philadelphia Has Been Eliminated, and in Its Place Now Stands an Architecturally Beautiful Art Center

Rocking Again the Cradle of Flight

Pioneers Celebrate In Hammondsport the Days That Made Aviation History

Milton Wright

In the World's Largest Hotel

Drafting Aids

Tools Designed to Speed the Engineer's Work

Rendering Visible a Magnetic Field

An Account of the Accidental Discovery of a Peculiar Phenomenon Which May Later be Set to Practical Work. The Experiment May be Duplicated by Amateurs

Elihu Thomson

Three Years Abaft the Mast

What the Non-magnetic Ship "Carnegie" Is Doing for Science On Her Three-Year Cruise

James Stokley

The Economics of Dirt Farming

Frank Byers

The Caisson Slipped

Righting a Bridge Pillar Foundation Is One of the Hardest Tasks Engineers Ever Attempted--and Accomplished

Lloyd Llewellyn

Departments

Our Point of View, September 1928

The Month in Medical Science, September 1928

Apple Corer, Out-of-the-Way Rack and more

Tennis Ball Re-Napper, Portable Motor-Driven Air Pump and more

All Welded Gas Holder, Radium Rays Test Flaws In Castings and more

A Net of Weather Stations, The Bellanca Sesquiplane and more

The Chemistry of Faded Colors, Causes of Defects in Canned Foods and more

Instrument Tests Radio Reproducers, Grid-Suppressor Value and more

The Back Yard Astronomer, September 1928

The Heavens in September 1928

Hooks and Eyes, The Crowded Art of Slot Machines and more

Patents Recently Issued, September 1928