Scientific American Magazine Vol 152 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 152, Issue 3

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Features

Exploring Prehistoric Georgia

The Largest Archeological Expedition Yet Undertaken In America Has Yielded Remarkable Results on a Site Later to be Opened To Visitors as a National Monument

A. R. Kelly

Radio Facsimile

May Add Sight to Sound Broadcasting

C. W. Page

Building the World's Deepest-Water Bridge

Double-Decked, 8 1/4 Miles Long, In Two Sections, Twin Suspension Spans In One Section, Will Serve Huge Industrial Centers

Walter G. Swanson

'Canned' Roses

Herbert O. Warren

A Star Swells Up and Bursts

Henry Norris Russell

How is it Wrapped?

Packaging Now an Industry, Amazing Growth, Follows Trend Toward Color, Originality, Modernity, Employs Much Talent, Enhances Quality or Appearance, Phenomenal Profit Increases

Philip H. Smith

Sundials and their Construction

Part IX--The Principle and Construction of the Armillary Sphere

Margaret Walton Mayall, R. Newton Mayalll

The Oddest Thing About the Jews

Why Jews Have Some Diseases More and Others Less than Gentiles, First Class Insurance Risk, Most Nervous People on Earth, An Effect of Inbreeding, Either Very Good or Very Bad

Victor W. Eisenstein

Roaring Midgets

Tiny Race Cars Are Developing a New High-Speed Sport

A. P. Peck

The Houses We Live in

Havene Merson

Creative Enlargement

Advanced Amateur Photographers Will Often Find it Possible to Retake Scenes in the Dark Room, Some of the Tricks of the Trade

Jacob Deschin

Poplars of Promise

Rapid-Growing Hybrids, 10 to 14 Times Faster Than Natural, 80-Cord Crop Per Acre in 12 Years, More Profitable Than Wheat, Boon to Farmers, Paper Makers, Lumbermen, Cut Importations, An Important Achievement

Frederick H. Ecker

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, March 1935

Books Selected by the Editors, March 1935

Harvesting American-Grown Rubber in California

Our Point of View, March 1935

Ejector Ice Cube Tray, Wheeled Centipede in Africa and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, March 1935