Scientific American Magazine Vol 155 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 155, Issue 1

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Features

Breeding Machine Brains

Machine Design Evolutionary, Basic Design Ideas, New Materials, Processes Demand New Machines, Empirical Designer Most Successful

Philip H. Smith

The Road to Empire--II

Excavating the Sacred Well of Minturnae, and the Peculiar Surprise that was Found in it. What to do After Lightning has Struck a Public Building

Jotham Johnson

Science at the Scene of Crime

How Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Operate, Photography, Blood Tests, Preservation of Evidence, Moulage

J. Edgar Hoover

High Efficiency From New Lamps

Rainbow Colors, Sun-Like Brilliancy, Still in Laboratory Stage, May Open Vast New Fields

Are We Inside a Dark Nebula?

Recent Investigations Suggest that Our Part of Space is Slightly Hazy, and Provide a Hypothesis of the Origin of the Sun's Family of Comets

Henry Norris Russell

High-Speed Paving For California Aqueduct

New streamlined canals

Andrew R Boone

Your Brain

G. H. Estabrooks

Tracking Down Your Trade Mark Title

You Own Your Trade Mark, but Can You Prove It?

Sylvester J. Liddy

Polar Molecules

The New Science of Molecular Structure, Old Puzzles Unpuzzled, The "Why" of Some Things

Sidney J. French

Arcs Cut Under Water

Electric Torch Rips Submerged Metals, Gases Create Working "Hollow", Oxygen Burns Metal Being Cut, Possible Welder, Many Uses

R. G. Skerrett

Strange Sensations

Tests for Color Blindness, Most Prevalent in Males, Color Blind Interior Decorators, Taste is also Deficient in Some Individuals

Laurence H. Snyder

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, July 1936

Personalities in Science, July 1936

In a Valley of Noisy Giants

Our Point of View, July 1936

Pawnbroker's Microscope, Biologist Produces a Unicorn and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, July 1936

Book Selected by the Editors, July 1936