Scientific American Magazine Vol 162 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 162, Issue 1

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Features

X Rays Reveal the Secrets Beneath its Paint

Identifying Shakespeare

Science in the Shape of Infra-red Photography and the X ray Brings to Light at Last the Real Man Beneath the Surface of a Series of Paintings of the Bard

Charles Wisner Barrell

To Combat Noise

One Device Dissects Noises, Analyses Them, A Second Finds Vibration Sounds, A Third Determines Expansion of Metal Which Makes Hum

James A. Bauble

Dust Clouds of Space

Henry Norris Russell

The Carboniferous Mystery

Prints Roughly Resembling Human Footprints, and Found in Very Ancient Rocks, Would Greatly Add to Mans Antiquity

Albert G. Ingalls

Four Fastest

Our Superior Modernized 75's

Re-Construction of Our Large Stocks of Wartime 75mm Guns Would Give Them Longer Range, High Elevation, Wide Traverse

G. M. Barnes

Controlled Comfort for Workers

Electrons Dance the Rhumba

Klystron, Generator of Powerful Ultra High-Frequency Radio Waves, Useful in Blind Landing System for Planes

Andrew R. Boone

The Pittsburgh of Old Palestine

American Archeological Excavations at an Arm of the Red Sea Bring to Light a Buried City with a Smelter in which King Solomon Refined his Copper

Nelson Glueck

The Snow Cruiser, A Mobile Base for Antarctica

Departments

50 Years Ago, January 1940

Personalities in Science, January 1940

Our Point of View, January 1940

Versatile Eye-Testing Machine, Improved White Lead, and more

Camera Angles, January 1940

Our Book Corner, January 1940

Telescoptics, January 1940

Current Bulletin Briefs, January 1940

Legal High-Lights, January 1940