Scientific American Magazine Vol 166 Issue 5

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 166, Issue 5

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Features

Battleship Types of Three World Powers

Dreadnoughts of the U. S. NAVY

A Two-Ocean Fleet is Our Nation's Ultimate Goal

Walton L. Robinson

We Need More Physicists

Military Activity and Industrial Requirements Have Created an Unprecedented Demand

E. U. Condon

Delayed Jump, Eyes

Of Strip to Magnet Demonstrates Atomic Change

Have you Heterophoria?

Eye Exercises Using New Light-Polarizing Vectographs Can Improve Depth Perception

Everett White Melson

Sulfanilamide, Antibodies, and more

Why the New Drug is "Unfair to Bacteria"

Astrono-Mexico

North American Astronomers Assist at Opening of Mexico's New National Observatory

Henry Norris Russell

Why are we Short of Aluminum?

Huge Quantities of Electricity are Needed to Reduce this Common Metal from its Ore

Henry W. Roberts

Insulation, Plywood, and more

Board Made of Glass Replaces Cork

Industrial Trends, May 1942

NUTS, BEANS, SEEDS . . . AND Oil

Patents and Free Enterprise

Anti-Trust Laws Can Control Abuse of Patents Without the Necessity of Destroying Patent Rights

William R. Ballard

Air-Conditioning Fish

Mechanical Means Used to Provide Oxygen, Keep Temperature Low When Transporting Hatchery Fish

F. Wallace Taber

Ozone, Gasoline, and more

Still Much to be Learned About its Effects

Blind Rivets, Tap Reconditioner, and more

Can Be Set From One Side Only

Jet Propulsion

Italian Experiments With an Airplane That Uses No Propeller for Flight at High Altitudes

Alexander Klemin

Templates, Multiple Mower, and more

Rapid Process Used in Aviation Industry

Departments

50 Years Ago, May 1942

Personalities in Industry, May 1942

Our Point of View, May 1942

Camera Angles, May 1942

Our Book Corner, May 1942

Current Bulletin Briefs, May 1942

Telescoptics, May 1942