Scientific American Magazine Vol 158 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 158, Issue 1

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Features

Personalities in Industry, January 1938

What Can We Do About Our Rare and Vanishing Species?

Lessons Have Been Taught by the Disappearance of the Passenger Pigeon and Heath Hen, A Greater Public Interest and Support Needed

Ira N. Gabrielson

In, Out, Through New York

Three-Part Tunnel System, New Jersey to Long Island, Under Hudson River, Manhattan, East River, Outstanding Engineering Features

R. G. Skerrett

Ra-Mose and Hat-Nufer, January 1938

Ambrose Lansing, William C. Hayes

Photographing Traffic From the Air

A Plastic Born

The Nearest Stars

Henry Norris Russell

Headache Headquarters

Mellon Institute, Sponsored Research Cures Industrial Headaches, Solves Problems, Develops New Products, Processes, 700 Patents

Frederick Tisdale

Floated on Mud

Sailing Vessel, Now an Aquarium, Was Raised to a Permanent Location by Mud, Nine Feet Up, Cofferdam Used, Sand as a Foundation

Harold Chamberlin

What to do About Dust?

Industrial Dust Hazards, Little Known of Them, Foundation to Study Ways, Means of Combating, Medical, Legal, Engineering Aspects

John F. Mcmahon

Chemotherapy and Prontosil

Uses and Abuses of the New Drug, Valuable, but to Be Used with Caution, Theory of Chemotherapy, Hope for Other Drugs in Research on Same Theory

T. Swann Harding

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, January 1938

Welding Does its Biggest Marine Job

Our Point of View, January 1938

Adjustable Electrical Magnifier, Progress and Peace and more

Current Bulletin Briefs, January 1938

Strict Construction, Interchangeable and more

Books Selected by the Edtors, January 1938