Scientific American Magazine Vol 160 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 160, Issue 6

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Features

Low Cost Cure for Radio Interference

The Future of Navies

Powers Build Larger Battleships: Sizes, Armament, Armor, Use, Effectiveness

Oscar Parkes

How Metals Relax

Research Engineers Demonstrate that Metals Stretch and Lose Their Grip with Time and High Temperature

Controlling the 'Heat'

Relativity--20 Years After

H.P. Robertson

Railroading's Latest Chapter

C.P. Fisher

Sulfanilamide And Sulfapyridine

Now that Enough Time has Elapsed to Permit Calm Estimate of These Newly Developed Drugs, How and Where do They Stand in the World of Medicine ?

Barclay Moon Newman

Cold Light

If Man Can Discover the Secret of the Firefly, the Effect will he Far-reaching,Experiments in Which man Tries to Imitate Nature's Successes

Evans W. Cottman

Color on a Huge Screen

What Keeps the Stars Shining?

For the Source of Stellar Energy We Must Look To Reactions Between Charged Atomic Nuclei, Discussions and Background for Bethe's Theory

Henry Norris Russell

They Never Say 'No'

"Prop Men" Furnish the Thousands of Odd Items That Make Motion Pictures More Realistic

Andrew R. Boone

Departments

Books Selected by the Editors, June 1939

Our Point of View, June 1939

50 Years Ago, June 1939

Food in a Balloon, Pilot Valve, and more

Camera Angles, June 1939

Camera Angles Round Table, June 1939

Telescoptics, June 1939

Current Bulletin Briefs, June 1939

Legal High-Lights, June 1939

Index To Volume 160, January-June, 1939