Scientific American Magazine Vol 156 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 156, Issue 1

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Features

Personalities in Research, January 1937

L. Warrington Chubb

China's Ol' Man River

Yellow River Breaks Dikes, Chinese Rebuild, Huge Engineering Job Done With Hand Labor, Ancient Chinese Methods

O. J. Todd

Archeologist's Puzzle, January 1937

Broiler Factories

Eggs and Broilers in Mass Production, Thousands of Hens Indoors in Cities, Scientific Management, Controlled Food, Climate

Philip H. Smith

Rotating Rocks

Henry Norris Russell

Movie Cartoons in Color

Enhance the Action, Simple, Solid Colors, Must Harmonize, Not Clash, Exposure Becomes a Problem, Constant Research a Necessity

Andrew R. Boone

Ourselves and the Feeble-Minded

G. H. Estabrooks

Indium--A Metal Aristocrat

Sidney J. French

Fish and Physicians

A Fish that has Flopped into One of the Biggest Scientific Ponds of the World--Cancer Research, Some very Important Revelations Have Resulted

Harry Pelham Robbins

Status of World Navies

Recapitulation of Treaty Navies as Washington Naval Limitation Treaty Expires December 31, 1936

F. D. McHugh

World's Longest Bridge Now Open

Oil Emulsions that Act Alive

A Research Step Toward a Comprehension of Living Protoplasm, Chemicals Imitate Simplest Forms of Life, How To Demonstrate

P. A. Young

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, January 1937

Sacred Scavengers Now Resourceful Engineers

Our Point of View, January 1937

Australia Claims Oldest Live Thing, Telepathy's Reality and more

A Bill Worth Watching, Be Discriminating when you Discriminate and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, January 1937

Books Selected by the Editors, January 1937