Scientific American Magazine Vol 145 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 145, Issue 3

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Features

A Button Industry from Ocean Pearl

Grace Lockhart

Wild Life in a Fire

Duane H. Kipp

Flying Instruction as it Should Be

George W. Orr

How you are Influenced by Color

Solon R. Barber

Is Interstellar Space Wholly Empty

Henry Norris Russell

A Day With a Locksmith

Albert A. Hopkins

The Perspective of Modern Physics

Paul R. Heyl

A Tinted Statue From Pompeii's Ashes

It Pays to be a Pioneer

Milton Wright

Natural Gasoline from Oil Wells

G. Ross Robertson

Pose Yourself For Your Portrait

Into a Hidden World

M. C. Swingle

Asquith and Kitchener

(Concluded from August)

W. D. Puleston

"Form" Letters With A Personal Touch

World Affairs and the Telephone

How Ancient is Modern Man?

J. Reid Moir

Cotton Cloth Fit for a King

Donald A. Laird

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, September 1931

Back of Frontispiece, September 1931

France's Reply to Germany's "Pocket Battleship"

Our Point of View, September 1931

New Soap has no Taste, A Telephone Call-Recorder and more

Single Court of Patent Appeals, Inventor Convicted of Fraud and more

Books Selected By The Editors, September 1931