Scientific American Magazine Vol 143 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 143, Issue 4

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Features

One Touch of Nature

David B. Pickering

A 1400-foot Dive

Otis Barton

Moonscapes

Russell.W Porter

Housekeeping Aboard a Battleship

John Donald Thompson

Stone From Hot Mineral Springs

Can We Signal to the Planets?

John Thomson

Scientific Criminology

How Bullets and Firearms Are Matched for Identification

Stanley F. Gorman

My Experience in Amateur Telescope Making

Clyde W. Tombaugh

Experiments With "Wonder Creatures"

Frank E. Lutz

The Largest American-Made Telescope Mirror

The Development of the Columbia River

Charles F. A. Mann

A Reclining Chair Night Coach

Measuring the Distance to the Stars

Henry Norris Russell

Marsh Delta Lands Become Rich Farms

Our Army's New Super-Weapon

G. M. Barnes

Basic Patents in Evolution--III

William K. Gregory

Ctesiphon, A Magnificent Fragment

The New Fifty-foot Stellar Interferometer

Mount Wilson Observatory

F. G. Pease

The Juvenile Aircraft Industry

Anderson G. Orb

The Penalty of Carelessness

The Reviving Liquid-Metal Industry

J. K. Novins

Prohibition and the Physiological Effects of Alcohol

H. H. Mitchell

Recorded Radio Programs

A. J. Kendrick

Flint Implements Great and Small

J. Reid Moir

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, October 1930

S. A. Mitchell

The Sixty-inch Telescope

Our Point Of View, October 1930

Index Globe for Study of Geography, Hudson River Bridge Cables Completed and more

Commerical Property News, October 1930