Scientific American Magazine Vol 140 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 140, Issue 1

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Features

Belching Cauldrons of the Earth

Awe Inspiring to an Infinite Degree Are the Titanic Eruptions of Great Volcanoes

Chester A. Reeds

From the Scrap-book of Science, January 1929

What is Life?

Fascinating Pseudo-cells Which Display the Non-Living Features of Protoplasm May be Made by the Amateur With a Few Chemicals

Emma Reh Stevenson

Where to Put It?

Few Realize How Many Factors Will Have to be Considered in Selecting Scientifically the Best Site for the New 200-Inch Telescope

Henry Norris Russell

Railroads Turn to the Highways

To Protect Revenues and Give Better Service, Steam Railroads Adopt Motor Buses

F. D. Mchugh

Robots for Salesmen

Big Business Lays the Foundation for the Age of Mechanical Distribution of Merchandise

Joseph J. Schermack, Milton Wright

Wood Gases for Motors

Gazogene, France's New Gas, Promises to Replace Gasoline As Fuel

Do the Records of Science Face Ruin?

The Wide-spread Use of Groundwood Pulp for Paper Has Endangered Many Records Which Should Be Preserved for Posterity

C. Binkley

The Mystery of the Green Line

The Aurora Borealis Has Long Provided Science With One of Its Most Difficult Puzzles. This Problem is Now Giving Way Before Intensive Research

J. C. Mclennan

The Month in Medical Science, January 1929

A Review and Commentary on Progress in the Medical and Surgical Fields

Morris Fishbein

Adventurous Archeology

Naval Adequacy--V

Personnel Is a Primary Element of Naval Strength. In This, the Final Article of This Discussion, the Author Points Out Our Need for More Men

N. H. Goss

Saving the Scraps

Cast-Iron Chips and Borings Briquetted For More Efficient Re-melting

Your Next Automobile

Few Mechanical Improvements But a Wide Variety of Body Designs and Colors Are Features for 1929

Wheels--III

Steering Wheel Linkages, Castor Settings of Wheels, and Reasons for Wheel Wobble Are Discussed In This Installment

P. Cormac

Noise Exclusion

Sound Waves From Noisy Streets Deflected by New Ventilator Which Admits Silent, Fresh Air

Long Bridge Shortens Coastal Route

Niagara Should be Saved

To Preserve Scenic Beauty of the Falls, Simple Remedial Measures Are Recommended by Special Board

The Origin of Petroleum

Modern Scientists Incline Strongly Toward the Theory That Petroleum Is a Product of Once Living Matter

Heinrich Ries

Contented Animals have a Home-like Zoo

Departments

Our Point of View, January 1929

Ice Cream Delivery Truck, Fender Repairer and More

A Pin at a Time, Rapid Staplers and More

Dress Envelope, Egg Kettle and More

A Pleasure-Car Snow-Plow, Cage Experiment Proves Borer Can be Controlled and more

Model Aircraft, Aviation in Central America

By-Product Process Has Almost Supplanted Beehive Coke Ovens, Methane as Successor to Present Manufactured Gas and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, January 1929

The Back Yard Astronomer, January 1929

The Heavens in January 1929

Ideas Are Not Patentable, Profits in Cinders and more