Scientific American Magazine Vol 165 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 165, Issue 1

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Features

Theater Television

Our Search for the Supernatural--IV

Did Sir Oliver Lodge Write the Message?

A.D. Rathbone

A Bottle-Neck Breaker

Welding Presents Advantages of Speed and Low Cost to Machine Tool Industry

Ed C. Powers

Portable Substation, Protection, and more

Transformer on Wheels for Emergency Use

Wartime Astronomy

A Mere War Does Not Sidetrack European Astronomers from Regular Work

Henry Norris Russell

Radio Runs a Transit

Accurate Ocean-Floor Topographic Maps Made Through Acoustical Surveys

Gilbert T. Rude

Oil Wells, Cosmic Rays

Sciences Beat Hunches in Discovering New 1940 Fields

Pilots, Pilots, More Pilots

Encouragement of Glider Clubs Would Provide Ample Raw Material for Military Needs

E. F. McDonald

Green-Bouses for Bombers

Plastic Enclosures Reduce Plane Weight, Hence Increase Speed or Bomb Capacity

More Power to the South

Development of South Carolina Engineering Project Will Provide for New Industries

Hamilton M. Wright

Sampling, Mine Locomotives

New Apparatus for Taking Sea Bed Samples

Television Today

Commercial Operation, Large-Screen Projection, and Color Are Recent Developments

A. P. Peck

Quiet Offices, Stutterers, and more

Precision Filing, Thermostat, and more

Reciprocating Hand Tool For Semi-Skilled Labor

Helicopter Records

Rotary Aircraft Operates as Seaplane Or Amphibian Helicopter

Alexander Klemin

Dive Bomber, Self Sealing Tanks

America Produces Outstanding Navy Plane

Departments

50 Years Ago, July 1941

Personalities in Science, July 1941

Industrial Trends, July 1941

Our Point of View, July 1941

Camera Angles, July 1941

Your Firearms and Fishing Tackle, July 1941

Our Book Corner, July 1941

Telestopics, July 1941