Scientific American Magazine

August 1934

Volume 151, Issue 2

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Features

How Research Makes Possible the Modern Motor Car

Alexander Klemin

Composing A Picture

F. D. McHugh

Excavations at Ur

C. Leonard Woolley

What is Whiskey?

Down Through the Centuries, the Literature of Whiskey has been Scant; Here are Told Some of the Secrets of Real Whiskey

Earl Sparling

Mysteries of the Solar Corona

Henry Norris Russell

Rattlers and Their Bites

Will C. Barnes

Science Replies to Secretary Wallace's Article: 'The Scientist in an Unscientific Society'

Chas. B. Davenport, Willis H. Whitney, Edwin G. Conklin, T. D. A. Cockerell, John C. Merriam, Chas. F. Kettering, C. G. Abbot

Unforeseen Control of Industry

Daniel H. Kane

Why The Battleship?

Jonas H. Ingram

Bureaucracy and the Farmer

Harry F. Byrd

Dispelling Popular Fallacies About Air Conditioning

L. R. Smith

Industrial Corn

Philip H. Smith