Scientific American Magazine Vol 149 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 149, Issue 4

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Features

Muscle Shoals Active at Last

Tennessee Valley Authority Act Provides for Operation of Muscle Shoals and the Development of a Wide Area

William Benjamin west

Is Telepathy Indicated

As Being a Factor in the Events Described Below? Experiences of Readers That Thus Far Have Not Been Explained

How Rare Gases Give Beauty to Lighting

"Neon" Tubes Do Not Always Contain Neon: Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Helium, and Mercury are Also Used

A. P. peck

The Greatest Catastrophe of All

Henry Norris Russell

The Carolina Bays—are they Meteor Craters?—II, October 1933

The Amateur and his Microscope—IV Use and Care of the Instrument

(Continued from September)

John F. Brandt, Frank Challis

The Inheritance of Disease

To What Extent and in What Circumstances are Cancer, Tuberculosis, Goiter, and Syphilis Inheritable?

Charles B. Devenport

From the Archeologist's Note Book, October 1933

The Progress of Aviation

A Recent Crop of Reflecting Telescopes, Made by Readers of this Scientific American and the Book Amateur Telescope Making

The Pennsylvania Electrifies

J. V. B. Duer

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, October 1933

The Servant that has Transformed the World

Our Point of View, October 1933

Photography With Semi-Invisible Flashes, Submerged Shotgun Bursts and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, October 1933

Books Selected by the Editors, October 1933

Oil Burner Trademarks Rejection of Chemical Claims