Scientific American Magazine Vol 166 Issue 3

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 166, Issue 3

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Features

Food for Britain Helps Us

An Apparent Paradox in Modern Nutrition

T. Swann Harding

Transfusions, Sensitive, and more

Blood Types Now Quickly Determined

Our Navy's Air Arm

Flying Sailors of the United States Have Long Been Regarded as Best Trained in the World

James L. H. Peck

Water 'Chuting, Fluorescent, and more

Marines Use Gas Inflated Jackets

Rolling Off a Log

Plywood Made Available for Many New Applications by Development of Synthetic Adhesives

Thomas D. Perry

Duplicating Without Dies

Short-Run Production Requirements in Metal Shapes Met by Ingenious Hand-Operated Tools

A. P. Peck

Telephone Savings

Reclamation And Substitution For Conservation

Steel, Aluminum Clay, and more

Orbit Sleuthing

How the Astronomer Determines the Size and Shape of a Double Star's Orbit

Henry Norris Russell

Fidgety Atoms Purify Water

Ozone Treatment of Community Supplies Has Proved Efficient in Practical Applications

R. G. Skerrett

Excavating for Meteorites

One Large and Two Small Craters Made by Violent Impact are Under Geologic Exploration in Texas

Weed Killer, Battling Bats, and more

For Lawns, Does Not Injure Grass

Shop Lighting, Happy Speaks, and more

Fluorescent Tube Used in Portable Unit

Night Vision

A British Army Medical Officer Considers a Subject of Vital Interest to Aviation in Particular

Alexander Klemin

Distilled Water, Jack, and more

Obtained By Process Using No Heat

Departments

Our Point of View, March 1942

Personalities in Industry, March 1942

50 Years Ago, March 1942

Industrial Trends, March 1942

Camera Angles, March 1942

Our Book Corner, March 1942

Current Bulletin Briefs, March 1942

Telescoptics, March 1942