Scientific American Magazine Vol 151 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 151, Issue 3

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Features

In Defense of the America's Cup

Herbert L. Stone

Plastic Model of Ancient Rome

Diving in Coral Gardens

A Scientist Works Beneath the Clear Waters of the Coral Reefs of the Bahamas

Roy Waldo Miner

600 Wheels an Hour

An Efficient Set-Up of Special Machinery and Gravity Conveyors Makes It Possible to Turn Out Motor-Car Wire Wheels at this Speed

The Sterilization Law in Germany

C. Thomalla

Excavations at Ur

C. Leonard Woolley

Beach Blasting

Stephen J. Ryan

Stars on Parallel Tracks

Henry Norris Russell

Building the World's Largest Aqueduct

How it is built

Robert D. Speers

Color Filters

Provide the Advanced Amateur Photographer With a Fertile Field for Experimenting

Walter Clark

Sundials and their Construction--VI

Lines of Declination; Signs of the Zodiac

Margaret Walton Mayall, R. Newton Mayall

Why the Battleship?

Concluding Article of a Two-Part Discussion on the Battleship as a Necessary Naval Unit

Jonas H. Ingram

Telescope Making

New Hobby Clubs Create Constantly Spreading Interest in

Departments

Across The Editor's Desk, September 1934

Back of Frontispiece, September 1934

The Great Chimu Fortress of Paramonga, in Peru

Our Point of View, September 1934

Remote Control for Arc Welders Cuts Costs, Silver Soap and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, September 1934

Books Selected by the Editors, September 1934

Triplex Patent Valid and Infringed, Radio Advertising Censored and more