Scientific American Magazine Vol 159 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 159, Issue 5

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Features

Sparks, Steam, Splinters

To Stop Desert Encroachment

Water Table Pumped Lower and Lower, the Desert is Creeping into Rich Central Valley; Two Great Dams, Long Canals, Will Supply Needed Water

Phil Dickinson

A Legacy for 6939 A. D.

Buried Metal Capsule Contains Sample of Our Civilization, Some of Our Products, Millions of Words in Print, For Future Archeologists

David S. Youngholm

The Italian Navy at a Glance

Electrical Rhythms of the Human Brain

What Causes Our Brain Waves and What Do They Signify? Hypotheses, Have They Something to Do With Vision?, A Beginning Has Been Made

Barclay Moon Newman

The Big Concretions of Ohio

Odd Rock Curiosities that Intrigue Collectors, Formed in the Rock Where They are Found, A Peculiar Chemical Reaction is Their Origin

Arthur David

Artificial Eclipses

At Their Triennial Meeting the World's Astronomers Witnessed the Amazing New Technique of Observing Solar Prominences and Corona Without an Eclipse

Henry Norris Russell

Machines Pick Cotton, But—

Mechanical Cotton Pickers Coming, to Solve Planter's Biggest Problem, Complex Factors, Adoption Very Slow, No "Economic Revolution"

F. D. Mchugh

Cosmic Radiation

Science Still Remains Uncertain What the Cosmic Rays Arc, Where They Come from, How They Were Formed and When

P. M. S. Blackett

Departments

50 Years Ago, November 1938

Our Point of View, November 1938

Booth Air, Torpedo Turns Around, and more

Camera Angles, November 1938

Camera Angles Round Table, November 1938

Book Reviews, November 1938

Telescoptics, November 1938

Current Bulletin Briefs, November 1938

Legal High-Lights, November 1938