Scientific American Magazine Vol 150 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 150, Issue 3

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Features

Sky Boats

The Blimp Fills a Definite Niche in the General Scheme of Aeronautics; the Author Makes a Splendid Case for Its Versatile Accomplishments

John T. Rowland

Quick-Action Navigating Camera

Springtime in the Home

J.W. Hammond

Babies by Scientific Selection

John Harvey Caldwell

The New Terranautics

The Findings of the Wind Tunnel Are Not Always Applicable to the Design of Motor Cars

William B. Stout

Science Suits Fashion's Fads

Lloyd W. Davis

Ocean Liners Get New Bows

Possibilities of Electro-Static Generators

Nikola Tesla

Rome's Archeological Treasures

Some New Astronomical Advances, March 1934

Astronomical Gains Made Public at the Recent Boston Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Its Associated Organizations

Henry Norris Russell

In the Region of Billions of Cycles

F. Zwicky

Spanning San Francisco Bay

Sundials and their Construction--II

Determining a Meridian Line and the Declination of a Plane. Construction of the South Vertical Type of Dial

Margaret Walton Mayall, R. Newton Mayall

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, March 1934

Back of Frontispiece, March 1934

Where Life Hangs on a Six-Inch Nail

Our Point of View, March 1934

The Amateur and His Microscope--IX

Perfect Exposures, American Grub Now Kills Snakes and more

Books Selected by the Editors, March 1934

Remarks On Protecting Intellectual Priority, Government Radio Control and more