Scientific American Magazine Vol 156 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 156, Issue 6

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Features

Taku Glacier Discharging into an Arm of the Pacific

Me and My Dog

Can Dogs Think? Lacking in Three Vast Advantages Humans Enjoy and Take for Granted, Dogs Cannot Be Regarded Scientifically as Thinking Animals

G. H. Estabrooks

Minute Men of the Fire Line

Andrew R. Boone

Denmark Bridges

R. G. Skerrett

Safety in Industry

Youth and Age in the Heavens

A Problem That is Not so Simple as it Seems, Ascertaining Which Astronomical Events Have Followed Others, and Which Have Preceded Them

Henry Norris Russell

Scientific Detection

Thomas Hayes Jaycox

Written with the Archeologist's Spade, June 1937

Dura, Archeology's Most Hectic Day's Work, Found the Contracts, Mortgages, Accounts, Receipts, Letters, and Wills of the Ancient Citizens

Jotham Johnson

Homalodotherium For Short

Albert G. Ingalls

Fences, Bridges, Zippers

Wire In Industry Everyday Life, For Man-Sized Jobs For Tinsel, Important New Electro-Galvanizing, Process "Tailor-Made" Wires

Philip H. Smith

Legs

S. F. Aaron

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, June 1937

Our Point of View, June 1937

Musical Refrigerators, Longest Total Eclipse of Sun in 1200 Years and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, June 1937

Belligerent Trolley Car, Futile Utility and more

Books Selected by the Editors, June 1937

Index to Volume 156, January-June, 1937