Scientific American Magazine Vol 164 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 164, Issue 6

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Features

Running a String of Oil-Well Casing

Our Search for the Supernatural--III

Demonstrations of Rappings and Ectoplasm Explained

A. D. Rathbone

A Skin Game in Metallurgy

Longer Life and Greater Productivity Given to Tools and Machines by Heavy Chromium Plate

Raymond F. Yates

New Brazing Method Cuts Costs

Fusion Process at Arms Plant is Applicable Throughout Many of the Metal Industries

A. P. Peck

Foil Substitute, Matting, and more

Mud Huts to Skyscrapers

Archeology Shows that Many Modern Building Methods are Thousands of Years Old

Neilson C. Debevoise

Folsom Man

The Shape of the Earth

New Determination of Its Polar Flattening, with a Saner Proposal for Submarines

Henry Norris Russell

Mad Dog--Mad Man

Most Modern Treatment for Hydrophobia is the Easily Obtained Simple Treatment

Charles Barton

Pregnancy Test, Slit-Lamp, and more

Trucks for Defense

The Trucking Industry is Mobilizing its 4,500,000 Trucks for Emergency Transport

P. R. Rieber

Badges

Bird Dogs of the Oil Field

Gamma Rays Often Point to the Presence of Oil in Old Worked-Out Wells

Randall Wright

Polarizer

To Find 1000

A Pinhead-Sized Bit of Radium Can't Long Hide from a Physicist in a Ten-Acre Lot

R. Burton Rose

Tektites, Puzzle of Science

The Origin of these Odd Objects Remains a Mystery Despite Years of Dispute

John Davis Buddhue

Lamp, Magnifier, and more

"Winged Warfare"

A Message to the Nation from Airmen Who Know What Military Aviation Needs

Alexander Klemin

Wind Tunnel, Light-Plane Flying, and more

Departments

Personalities in Science, June 1941

50 Years Ago, June 1941

Industrial Trends, June 1941

Our Point of View, June 1941

Camera Angles, June 1941

Your Firearms and Fishing Tackle, June 1941

Telescoptics, June 1941

Our Book Corner, June 1941

Current Bulletin Briefs, June 1941

Index To Volume 164, January--June, 1941