Scientific American Magazine Vol 145 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 145, Issue 5

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Features

Africa's First National Park

Mary L. Jobe Akeley

Power Development on the Columbia River

T. B. Parker

United States Plant Patent No. 1

Member of the New York Bar

Orson D. Munn

The Hottest Place in the Universe

Henry Norris Russell

Ford, The Practical

Edwin P. Norwood

Are There Creatures Like Ourselves in Other Worlds?

Professor of Biology, Ohio State College

Edwin Lincoln Moseley

The Birth, Life, and Death of a Railroad Ticket

Assistant to the Senior Vice-President, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Francis X. Milholland

Mercury Vapor Power to the Fore

Australia's Great Meteorite

Charles P. Olivier

Paper's Thinnest Web

H. W. Vogler

Where Not to Look For Oil And Gas

Extracted from the Journal of the Western Society of Engineers (Chicago)

Dr. Carey Croneis

Electrical Aids to Blind Flying

Alexander Klemin

From the Archeologist's Note Book, November 1931

A Modernized University Library

Why Question the Reasoning of Animals?

S. F. Aaron

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, November 1931

Back of Frontispiece, November 1931

Rome's Splendid Pantheon Restored

Our Point of View, November 1931

American Navy Building Program Lags, Largest, Most Powerful Locomotive and more

Coal and Fuel Oil Held Goods of Same Descriptive Properties, Tire Trademark Registration Refused and more

Book's Selected by the Editors, November 1931