Scientific American Magazine Vol 161 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 161, Issue 6

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Features

Balloon Mines to Put the Air Out of Action

Will Bombs Dominate?

Aerial Bomber Has Become Super-Type of Long-Range Heavy Artillery, How Bombs Differ in Their Penetrating and Explosive Action

Arthur E. Oxley

All For One and One For All

Research in Motor Industry, Cooperation and Exchange of Ideas, Findings, Has Resulted In Numerous Significant Developments

J. J. Frey

What's Inside the Stars?

Most of Our Present Knowledge of the Composition of the Stars Concerns Only their Atmospheres, Now the Analytical Boring Machine Digs Deeper

Henry Norris Russell

Is Light Slowing Down?

Some Physicists Suspect that Changes Occur in the Velocity of Light, Difficult to Prove, On the Whole, the Question Remains Wide Open

Douglas W. F. Mayer

Ships Can Carry Autogiros to Spot Submarines

Deep Piers Built in Stiff Tides

New Suspension Bridge Near Tacoma, Two Deep-Water Piers, Enormous Tidal Current Pressure Forces Unique Anchored Caisson Construction

Charles F. A. Mann

Answer, Echo, Answer

There are Echoes that Magnify Sound and Others that Change Harsh Discords to Harmony, Echoes that Analyze Sound, Whispering Galleries

Albert Carr

Pillar Halos

Departments

Personalities in Industry, December 1939

50 Years Ago, December 1939

Our Point of View, December 1939

Bike Tires Tested, Perfected Rubber Lung, and more

Your Firearms

Camera Angles, December 1939

Camera Angles Round Table, December 1939

Our Book Corner, December 1939

Telescoptics, December 1939

Current Bulletin Briefs, December 1939

Legal High-Lights, December 1939

Index To Volume 161, July-December, 1939