Scientific American Magazine Vol 162 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 162, Issue 2

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Features

For Propeller Designers to Study

Photography In Crime Detection

Valuable Contributions, Need Seen for Uniformity of Photographic Records, Automatic Cameras for Picturing Criminals in the Act

J. Edgar Hoover

A Bridge That Floats

Four-Lane Highway on Monster Pontoons, Over a Mile Long, Tied By Cables to Great Anchors in Bottom Mud, Safe, Vibrationless, Permanent

Charles F. A. Mann

Air, Water, Coal = Hosiery

Fiber From Abundant Raw Materials, Fiber is Only One of a Large Family of Chemical Products Known as Nylon, Research That Led to Them

H. T. Rutledge

Stopping Time

That is What "Whirling Watcher" Does, Newest Stroboscope is Light Weight, Portable, Allows "Stills" and Movies of Extremely Fast Movement

Robert Littell

Winners in the Fourth Annual Scientific American Photography Contest

Algol's Eclipses

Henry Norris Russell

Seven Million Maps

Andrew R. Boone

Molds By Electro-Forming

Engineering In Dentistry

Dentists' Main Problems are to Get Strength Plus Resiliency, Add to This: Art, Precious Metal Alloys and New Porcelains Meet Needs of Dentists

A. W. Jessup

Spare Parts

G. H. Estabrooks

Departments

50 Years Ago, February 1940

Our Point of View, February 1940

Personalities in Science, February 1940

Neon Lamps Simplify Slip-Speed Checks, Weighting "Top-Heavy" Destroyers and more

Camera Angles, February 1940

Our Book Corner, February 1940

Telescoptics, February 1940

Current Bulletin Briefs, February 1940

Legal High-Lights, February 1940