Scientific American Magazine Vol 149 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 149, Issue 5

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Features

How Much Poison Can We Eat?

T. Swann Harding

Telepathy? Mind-Reading

The Distance Flier Takes a Chance

But Highly Refined Devices Act To Reduce the Gambling Element

Reginald M. Cleveland

Stellar Atmospheres

Henry Norris Russell

More Water for the Panama Canal

E. S. Randolph

A Sculptor Turns Anthropologist

A Woman Artist Circles the Globe to Fix Native Types in Imperishable Materials

The Amateur and his Microscope—V

Exploring Unknown Waters

Julian D. Corrington

Solar Tides

H.A. Marmer

A Rapid-Fire Weapon to Fight Tuberculosis

There is no Sand in Sandpaper

And a New Process of Making This Important Product Regiments Its Grains, Point Outward, Electrostatically

The Problem of the Divining Rod

Count Carl Von Klinckowstroem

Mysteries of Movie Make-Up

Making An Actor Look Like Someone Else is an Art Requiring Skill, Time, and Patience

Farm Problems and the Machine

Harry G. Davis

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, November 1933

Where Man and Nature Blend

Our Point of View, November 1933

The Brocken Ghost "Laid" by Cameraman, More Uses for Copper and more

Books Selected by the Editors

Radio Tube Patents Granted, Eye "Institute" Curbed and more