Scientific American Magazine Vol 153 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 153, Issue 4

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Features

An Orang Born in Captivity

ORDER X--PRIMATES SUBORDER III--ANTHROPOIDEA SECTION B--CATARRHINI FAMILY II--SIMIIDAE and FAMILY IV-HOMINIDAE

Agricultural Research Aids Industry

Co-operation Brings Results, Better Crops Are Produced, New Industries Born, Old Ones Benefited, Ultimate Consumer Reaps a Harvest

James T. Jardine

Building Blocks of the Atom

Artificial Disintegration Leads to Knowledge of How Atoms Are Made, A Round-up of Terms

The Great Mound of Tepe Gawra

Jotham Johnson

A Link in a Chain of Dams

Wheeler Dam, Completed Next Year, Will Produce, Power Has Navigation Lock, Operated With Other Dams, Will Control Tennessee River

Herbert F. Gough

Watching Crystals Grow

Under the Microscope Perfect Specimens Photomicrographs of Almost Any Chemical

Benton Stone Jr.

World Astronomers Meet Again

Every Three Years an International Body of Astronomers Meets, Mainly to Coordinate and Facilitate Cooperation of National Groups

Henry Norris Russell

Nature Faking Again

Silly Stories and Pictures to the Contrary Notwithstanding, Quite Unthinkable, Often Laughable Nonsense Fancy Yarns

S. F. Aaron

Light Waves in Industry

Gage Blocks, Master Gage Blocks, Optical Flats, The Master Controls

Everett W. Melson

Military Motorization

What is Scientific Proof?

The Commonest Mistake, What the Real Method of the Scientist Demands, Hard-boiled, Cold, Rigorous Logic, Two and Two are Not Nine

T. Swann Harding

From Metal to Money

Scenes in a U.S. Mint

Eyes of the Fleet

Andrew R. Boone

Make Your Own Light-Sensitive Cells

Supply Five To Ten Milliamperes, Operate Relays, Easy To Make, Low In Cost

John H. Radu

Progress in this Age of Science as Told to Scientific American, October 1935

Lewis H. Brown

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, October 1935

Our Point of View, October 1935

Water Weight, Fingerprints Raised from Cloth and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, October 1935

"Angle" Photography, New Low-Priced Exposure Meter and more

The 1936 All-Wave Receivers, Amateur "Phone" Transmitters and more

Books Selected by the Editors, October 1935