Scientific American Magazine Vol 151 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 151, Issue 4

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Features

Uncle Sam, Ace Detective

Herbert Fearon

Strikes, Business, and Money

In a desire to make for our readers a fair appraisal of important and timely economic problems

James H. Rand Jr.

Flowers in the Arctic

James Montagnes

Excavations in Ancient Athens

T. Leslie Shear

A Chapter of Accidents and How It Affects the Nebulae

Henry Norris Russell

Along Came a Spider

The Little Black Widow Spider, Common in this Country, is More to be Feared than the Tarantula

Nelson W M. Baker

Dark-Rooms

And Dark-Room Technique for the Advanced Amateur Photographer

A. P. Peck

The Folly of Human Sterilization

Ignatius W. Cox

Steel Arteries for Boulder Dam

Pipes without parallel in modern engineering

R. G. Skerrett

America Must Be Self-Contained

James W. Gerard

Wings Over Water

Increased Use of Water-Going Aircraft May Presage a New Era in Aerial Transportation

Reginald M. Cleveland

The Amateur and His Microscope--XII Some Tricks of the Trade

John F. Brandt

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, October 1934

The Autogiro in Military Maneuvers

Our Point of View, October 1934

Bathysphere Has New Quartz Windows, Noiseless All-Wave Radio Antenna System and more

Books Selected by the Editors, October 1934

Chicken Capsules in Patent Suit, Position of Trade Mark and more