Scientific American Magazine Vol 143 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 143, Issue 3

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Features

The Harriman Medals for Rail Safety

Volcanology

What Is Being Done to Make the Observation of the Earth's Internal Fluids an Experimental Science

T. A. Jaggar

Why Stars Twinkle

Henry Norris Russell

The America's Cup Defenders

Herbert L. Stone

Crash-Testing Tires at High Speed

Our Patent System

The Use and Abuse of Patent Rights

Orson D. Munn

More About the Peking Man

G. Elliot Smith

Arcs of Art

The Camera Analyzes the Electric Arc

Hendley N. Blackmon

The Pattern of Evolution

A Criticism of Doctor Austin Clark's Thesist

W. D. Matthew

Modern Rehabilitation of the Cripple

Albert A. Hopkins

Basic Patents in Evolution--II

William K. Gregory

A Fish Factory at Sea

Racing Cars of 1930

William F. Sturm

Mooring Dirigibles Mechanically

New Stub Mast and Other Equipment at Lakehurst Facilitate Mooring and Housing

Chicago's Underground Freight System

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, September 1930

Back of Frontispiece, September 1930

The Vanguard of Progress, September 1930

Railroading Today--Construction and Maintenance

Our Point of View, August 1930

Suspended Observation Car, Door Opens Automatically When Approached and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, August 1930

Similar Food Trademarks Allowed, Concrete Mixer May Be Beautiful, and more