Scientific American Magazine Vol 154 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 154, Issue 1

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Features

Ancient Art Revealed by a Peasant's Plow

Artificial 'Radium'

Making Other Elements Artificially Radio Active, What Happens - Central Importance In Physics Today, Treatment of Cancer

E. U. Condon

Civil Aviation in National Defense

Reginald M. Cleveland

The "Space-Penetrating Power" of Telescopes

Compare Two Telescopes With Same Aperture hut Different Focal Lengths, Limitations of a Great Telescope, Seldom at its Best

Henry Norris Russell

The Food of Peking Man

Man's First Dietetic Record Found in His Actual Living Quarters, Oldest Known Inhabitant of Asia, Fossil Garbage, A Rare Specimen

Ralph W. Chaney

Surer Artificial Respiration

Nielsen Life-Saving Technique Surpasses, by 41 Percent, the Widely Used Schaeffer System

F. D. McHugh

Diesels for Battleships?

Large Number of Small Engines, Greater Fuel Economy, Quick Replacement, Repair, Simple Overhaul, Spares for Replacement

A. M. Procter

The "Big Top" in a Theater

Logan U. Reavis

Rubber Takes the Shocks of Industry

Persistent Rubber Research, Product Sticks to Old Jobs, Does Them Better, New Uses, New Research, Potentialities for the Future

Philip H. Smith

A Bigger and Better Cape Cod Canal

R. G. Skerrett

"Seeing" the Invisible

De Bary Kerston

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, January 1936

Personalities in Science, January 1936

Our Point of View, January 1936

Frost Chaser, Constructing World's Largest-Bore Tunnel and more, January 1936

Books Selected by the Editors