Scientific American Magazine Vol 162 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 162, Issue 3

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Features

Pure Science Teams With Industry

Silent Enemies

Until Sanitation Becomes Universal, Man Will Harbor Internal Parasites and Suffer From Them

Benjamin Adelman

Open House

New Engineering in the Navy

High-Pressure, High-Temperature Steam for Warships, More Reliable Machinery, Greater Speed, Economical, Equipment for Our New Warships

Charles Edison

A Famous Theory Weakens

The Encounter Theory of the Origin of Planets Has Now Become Shaky and May Pass into the Limbo Where the Old Nebular Hypothesis Went

Henry Norris Russell

Debutante Metal--Beryllium

Large Supplies, Makes Extremely Hard Alloys of Copper, Other Metals, Low Percentage is Needed Research Finding New Alloys, New Uses

Philip H. Smith

Why Pure Science Pays

Time After Time Scientists Interested in Finding New Facts Purely for Their Own Sake - Intellectual Curiosity--Have Handed Fortunes to Industry

A. Cressy Morrison

Soundless Sound Waves

The Odd Realm of Supersonics-Inaudible, Versatile Vibrations-is Receiving Increasing Attention From Scientists

Walter L. Finlay

Restoring Rome's Colosseum

Recent Excavations Beneath the Ancient Arena Reveal Elevator Shafts for Raising Wild Beasts to the Combat Level by Means of Counterweights

H. T. Rutledge

Glass Takes On Color

New Fields Opened for Plate Glass, Decorative Mirrors, Sand-Blasted Designs, Panels Lighted at Edges, Careful Experimentation

Earl Aiken

An Engineered Lily Pad

Mystery of the Magnetic Mine

C. E. Milbury

Departments

50 Years Ago, March 1940

Personalities in Science, March 1940

Our Point of View, March 1940

Screen Made by Electroplating, The Eskimo Goes Modern, and more

Camera Angles, March 1940

Our Book Corner, March 1940

Telescoptics, March 1940

Current Bulletin Briefs, March 1940

Legal High-Lights, March 1940