Scientific American Magazine Vol 165 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 165, Issue 5

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Features

Treating Glass to Eliminate Glare

Bombers to Britain

Gigantic Newfoundland Airport is Jumping-Off Place

Edwin Muller

Bullet-Sealing, Blackouts?, and more

Hose Protects Fuel System of Combat Planes

Oil is Where you Ship It

Transportation Facilities Available to the Petroleum Industry Govern Fuel Supplies

A. P. Peck

Oil, Clean-Up, and more

Escape from Surgery

New Telescopic Technique of Internal Examination is Saving Many from Operations

Andrew R. Boone

Master Diet, Thiamin, and more

Gold from the Grave

Central American Indian Cemeteries Yield Exquisite Ornaments of Almost Pure Metal

J. Alden Mason

High Pressures Within

How Astronomers Derive Such Stupendous Internal Pressures for Earth and Stars

Henry Norris Russell

A Bridge Because of a Dam

Truss Design and Material Used Represent New Departures From Previous Practice

F. W. Penhorst

International Beams

Short-Wave Broadcasts, Directed to Foreign Countries, are "Searchlighted" for Power

Raymond F. Guy

Hormones for Plant Growth

Stabilized Organic Compounds in Commercial Fertilizers Give Added Stimulation

"Darcy," Saw, and more

Sander, Vibration, and more

Portable Unit With Reciprocating Head

Keeping Pace

A Brief Glimpse of America's Largest Pursuit Plane Factory

Alexander Klemin

Mirador, Block Signals, and more

Part of Washington Airport Equipment

Departments

Our Point of View, November 1941

50 Years Ago, November 1941

Personalities in Industry, November 1941

Industrial Trends, November 1941

Camera Angles, November 1941

Your Firearms and Fishing Tackle, November 1941

Telescoptics, November 1941

Our Book Corner, November 1941

Current Bulletin Briefs, November 1941