Scientific American Magazine Vol 144 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 144, Issue 5

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Features

Navy's Super-Airship Nears Completion

Incandescent Refrigerators

Henry Norris Russell

Bells

Albert A. Hopkins

Salt Domes

M. F. Knoy

Which Races Are Best?

Why Science Can Not Admit Racial Differences in Intelligence

G. H. Estabrooks

More About the Great Siberian Meteorite

J. G. Crowther

The Ultimate in Skyscrapers?

Andrew J . Eken

From the Archeologist's Note book

An Industry That Was Made-To-Order

A. E. Buchanan

A Twenty-Four Hour Automatic Market

Electricity Runs this Typewriter

How Big is a Quantum?

Paul R. Heyl

Clemenceau and Foch

A Biographical Study of Two Fearless Frenchmen

W. D. Puleston

Wanted: A Wild Rice Harvester

Lawrence W. Pedrose

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, May 1931

Back of Frontispiece, May 1931

Millions of Hand Stitches on Acres of Cloth

Our Point of View, May 1931

Lightning, Benefactor of Mankind, New Paint Resists Corrosion and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, May 1931

Foreign Telephone Patent Suit Settled, Glass Trademark Upheld and more