Scientific American Magazine Vol 147 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 147, Issue 5

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Features

The Transmission Engineer's Job

Julius J. Torok

Gold From Goldfish

Star Colors and Star Temperatures

Henry Norris Russell

The Business Man Takes Wings

Speed, Safety, and Comfort Are the Key-Words that Open the Way to Modern Air Transportation for the Man to Whom 'Time is Money'

Charles R. Marshall

New Light on Sasanian Culture

Concrete Bridge Makes New Record

V. R. Covell

Is Space Curved?

John P. Nikonow

Looking at Stresses

Complex Stresses in Engineering Structures Made Directly Visible by a New Method

Max Mark Frocht

Big Springs

Guy Elliott Mitchell

Why a Watch Keeps Time

A. A. Hopkins

Gun Recoil Control

Endurance Cut From the Hillside

Austin C. Lescarboura

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, November 1932

Back of Frontispiece, November 1932

'Fireworks' Between the Wires on a Power Line

Our Point of View, November 1932

Rat "Digests" Part of a Steel Ball Bearing

Mushroom Piling Patent Valid, Unfair Competition Suppressed and more

Books Selected by the Editors, November 1932