Scientific American Magazine Vol 154 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 154, Issue 3

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Features

Personalities in Industry, March 1936

Vitamins Today

Thus Far We Have Vitamins A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,K, and Sometimes We Think There are More, Some May be Imaginary, But Forget Vitamin Worries

T. Swann Harding

Death on Four Wheels

Element of Chance Must be Minimized, State Accident Survey Shows the Way, Cultivate the Proper Attitude Toward Other Drivers

John Henshaw crider

Testing Steels by Sparking

De Bary Kerston

Hypnotism

Is Not a Mystic Force, Is Akin to Sleep--Walking and Insanity, Mainly of Use to the Psychologist, Other Uses are Very Limited

G. H. Estabrooks

Power in the Wilderness

Ingenious, Inexpensive Power Plant is Example for Remote Camps, Lodges, Resorts

William Benjamin West

Engineers Combat the Sea

New Jersey Studies Coast Erosion, Great Economic Loss, Varied Problems, How Approached, How Solved, Findings Helpful to Others

R. G. Skerrett

Electrical Floriculture

Artificial Light Supplements Daylight, Of Use in Greenhouse or Home, High Lighting Intensities Not Necessary, The Results

Lawrence C. Porter

Minor Planets--I

Thirty Thousand of Them Are Observable, Mass Production in Asteroid Discovery, Names For all of These Objects Are Becoming Hard to Find

Henry Norris Russell

In Case of War

Civilian Activities Demand Certain Essential Imports, War or Sanctions Would Stop Them, What They Are, Scientific Substitutes

Philip H. Smith

Why Aren't More Women Athletes?

Exceptions, Muscular Development Interferes with Motherhood, Women Tend to Shun Competition

Donald A. Laird

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, March 1936

Newest Mechanisms for Smashing Atoms

Our Point of View, March 1936

Laboratory Earthquakes, Petroleum Reservers and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, March 1936

Books Selected by the Editor, March 1936