Scientific American Magazine Vol 154 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 154, Issue 4

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Features

And Now, The Atlantic

One of the Last Areas to be Conquered By Commercial Air Transport . . . Technical Advances Have Outrun Political and Industrial Plans

Reginald M. Cleveland

Bridge Builder, Lawyer, Manufacturer: Astronomers

Bone Surgery With Machine Tools

Grafting Bones is Much Like Grafting Trees . . . Bone from Your Own Body . . . Cut with a Circular Saw . . . Shaped on the Spot with a Bone Mill

Fred H. Albee M.D., F.A.C.S.

The Great Serpent Mount In Ohio

Captain Dache M. Reeves

Minor Planets—II

Henry Norris Russell

Junk To You

A Billion Dollar Industry in Scrap Metals . . . Revolving Resources Save Ore and Coal . . . The "Alloy Age" Has Introduced New Problems

Philip H. Smith

The Amazing Growth In The Use Of Wood Pulp

Logan U. Reavis

Trisecting The Impossible

Why the Angle Trisector is Wasting His Time . . . the Problem is Insoluble—Demonstrably So . . . But the Perennial Aspirant Works On and On

Can They Take It?

Amateur Seismology

Half Amateur, Half Professional . . . Constant Battle . . . Listing the Difficulties . . . No Royal Road to this Scientific Hobby . . . Work . . . Work

Albert G. Ingalls

New Caissons Speed Work

R. G. Skerrett

Energy From The Sun

Step by Step Solar Engines Increase in Efficiency . . . May Reach Economical Level as a Power Source

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, April 1936

Way Down Under In A Bauxite Mine

Our Point Of View, April 1936

Treasure, Still A Puzzle and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, April 1936

Book Reviews, April 1936