Scientific American Magazine Vol 158 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 158, Issue 3

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Features

Personalities in Science, March 1938

Linus Pauling

Streamlined Plants

Professional Plant Breeding, Benefits the Farmer, the Housewife, Many Others, Finer Fruits, More Beautiful Flowers, Tastier Vegetables

Keith C. Barrons

Enzymes: Keys to Life and Death

At the Forefront of the Scientific Stage Today Are These Important Controlling Substances on Which Highly Significant Researches Are Being Conducted

Barclay Moon Newman

Wood Grown to Order

Mary Brandel Hopkins

New Astronomical Advances, March 1938

A Résumé of Some of the Researches Described at the Most Recent Semi-Annual Meeting of the 400 Astronomers of the North American Continent

Henry Norris Russell

China and Modern Science

Though the Times Were Ripe in Ancient China's Civilization, Pure (Hence Practical) Science did Not Develop There Because China was too Practical!

Rufus Suter

A Motor-Car Engine Takes Form

A. P. Peck

Camera Engraving

Photo-Engraving Conquering a New, Difficult Field, Makes Printing Rolls for Textiles, Wall Paper, Certain Advantages over Older Methods

Philip H. Smith

Aircraft have Influenced Warship Design

The Science of Alloy Building, March 1938

Why Metals Can be Worked, Why Graphite is a Lubricant, Why Some Metals are Brittle and Why Diamonds are Hard, Why Carbon Hardens Steel

Sidney J. French

Electricity Paints a Picture

And the Picture Tells a Significant Story to Research Workers in Many Fields, Cathode Ray Tube Development Has Made this Possible

Allen B. Dumont

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, March 1938

A Fortress of Science on a Mountain Peak

Our Point of View, March 1938

6000 Years Hence, Cane and more

The Setting Sun, Speed Films and the Meter and more

Telescoptics, March 1938

Current Bulletin Briefs, March 1938

Corporation Licenses, Caveat Vendor and more

Books Selected by the Editors, March 1938