Scientific American Magazine Vol 146 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 146, Issue 2

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Features

How Shall We Live in the Future?

Mary Jacobs

Commemorating a Century of Progress

Weighing the Satellites

Henry Norris Russell

Science and the Permanent Wave

J. G. Crowther

Pigeons Go to War College

'Jobs from Junk--Wages from Waste'

Janet B. Wattles

Engineering a Ski-Jump Tower

Robert Dobell Forster

A New Style Theater, Front and Back

Our Railroads Must Be Saved

F. D. McHugh

Science Trails the Criminal

Albert A. Hopkins

A Snow Avalanche "Caught in the Act"

Amateur Astronomy in the Wild West

Radio and Forest Fires*

Charles E. Randall

Greedy 'White Ants' Cost us Millions

S. W. Long

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, February 1932

Back of Frontispiece, February 1932

Cable-Suspended Dome At The 1933 Chicago Exposition

Our Point of View, February 1932

Elevating a City's Population, Germans Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry and more

Cotton Picking Machinery Perfected, More About Use of Word "Mahogany" and more

Books Selected by the Editors, February 1932