Scientific American Magazine Vol 146 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 146, Issue 4

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Features

What is it All About?

Hiram Percy Maxim

Man-Made Earthquakes Plumb Depths of Greenland's Ice

Aircraft and Navy Treaty Strength

Charles L. Lawrance

From the Archeologist's Note Book, April 1932

How Cold is Space?

Henry Norris Russell

Is Raw Milk a 'Raw Deal'?

Bruce M. Pierce

Forty Tons of Coral

Torn from the Ocean Floor to Form a Huge Museum Exhibit

Roy Waldo Miner

Improved Technique of Handling Airships on the Ground

Art Restorations and Frauds

Detected by the Use of Ultra-violet Radiation

Albert A. Hopkins

Highways and Railroads

Highways Are the Railroads' Feeder Lines. Both Go Forward. We Must Use Them Both

Thomas H. MacDonald

The Disaster in the Vatican Library

The Collapse of the Roof Is Laid to an Infinitely Slow Earthslide Unforeseen by the Original Builders .......

Angus S. Macdonald

Totem Poles

Their Significance and Modern Origin

Marius Barbeau

'Seeds' of Mass Production

James G. Donley

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, April 1932

Back of Frontispiece, April 1932

Forty Percent Completed Before the Keel is Laid

Our Point Of View, April 1932

Sound "Bullets" for Fog Navigation, Acid Mouth More Common in Calm Persons and more

Trademark Dry-Ice Oil Well Patents Held Valid and more

Books Selected by the Editors, April 1932