Scientific American Magazine Vol 153 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 153, Issue 1

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Features

The Appalachian Trail

A Key to Nature Study, For Pedestrians Only, A Project of Real Magnitude, From the Wilderness of Maine to Northern Georgia

Myron H. Avery

For Greater Safety At Sea

New Light on Ancient Technical Pogress

Iron, Glass, the Arch, Bath Rooms, Found to Have Been in Use Far Earlier Than Formerly Supposed, 4500 Years Ago, A Surprise

H. H. Slawson

Telepathy and Clairvoyance in a Trance Medium

Associate Professor of Psychology Duke University.

J. B. Rhine

How Bright is a Lightning Bug?

W. A. Parlin, Ph.D.

Is the Exposure Right?

Advanced Amateur Photographers Will Find Many Uses For Exposure Meters, When And How To Use Them, Outdoors, Indoors

Jacob Deschin

Impossible Planets

The Investigation of Three Newly- Discovered Stars of the Companion - of - Sirius Type (the Famous Star That Weighs a Ton Per Cubic Inch) Shows That These Extremely Dense Bodies are Old Stars in the Process of Going Out. It Also Shows That Planets Much Larger Than Jupiter are an Impossibility Anywhere in the Universe

Henry Norris Russell

Fight Corrosion

Copper, Much New Research, Many New Uses, Alloys, Adaptations, Hardened and Enameled, Quick Patina, Improves Iron, Steel

Philip H. Smith

Back on the Land

Subsistence Homesteads, Business Arrangement for Wage Worker, Home-Grown Food Supply, Federal Program Gives Direction to Movement Now Slowly Reversing Urbanization Trend

John Herrick

All-Wave Reception

A Universal Hobby, Daily Weather Reports, Noise on Short Waves, Care in Tuning

M. L. Muhleman

Power From Boulder Dam

Andrew R. Boone

Personality Glands

Giants, Dwarfs, Fanatics, Neurasthenics, Loafers, All Made by Disordered Glands

R. G. Hoskins

Wings that Turn

Possibilities of Rotating Wing Aircraft, Vertical Rising, High-Speed, Roof-Top Landing

Reginald M. Cleveland

Progress in This Age of Science as Told to Scientific American, July 1935

Kermit Roosevelt

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, July 1935

Personalities in Science, July 1935

From The Far Reaches of Western China

Our Point of View, July 1935

Pneumatic Rivet Passer, Gun Detector and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, July 1935

Books Selected by the Editors, July 1935