Scientific American Magazine Vol 167 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 167, Issue 1

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Features

Horsepower is War Power

How American Industry is Powering Our Military Machine

Charles F. Kettering

Tin Plating, Control, and more

Thinner, More Economical By New Process

Synthetic Elastomers

How Molecules are Manipulated to Make New Rubber-like Materials in Unlimited Variety

Sidney J. French

Best Wavelength

For Short-Wave Communication Can Now be Predicted

A Pier in Time—

Psychology Joins With Engineering Skill to Produce a Hospital Pier in Record Time of 43 Days

A. D. Rathbone

RW Tauri

A Remarkable Eclipsing Variable Star with a Gaseous Ring Whirling About One Component

Henry Norris Russell

A Maya Temple Grows Up

Archeologists in Guatemala Reveal the Evidences of a Five-Times-Reconstructed Temple

Linton Satterthwaite

Food for Fighters

New Dehydration Process Uses Steam Baths and Heat Treatments to Reduce Vegetable Weight and Bulk

Andrew R. Boone

Hallucination, Poison Ivy, and more

You Can Be Trained To Hear Things

When Lightning Strikes

Applied Research Has Reduced Greatly the Damage Done by Natural Lightning, Yet Much Study is Still Ahead

Gilbert D. McCann

Blackoutology, Wood Farming, and more

Why Red Light is Better than Blue

Raiders, Icing

Our Navy Comments on Fighting Planes

Cargo Planes of the Future

Special Equipment Will be Needed for this Branch of Air Transportation When it Starts its Growth

Alexander Klemin

Toggle Clamp, Rivet, and more

Exerts Pressure of 500 Pounds

Departments

50 Years Ago, July 1942

Our Point of View, July 1942

Industrial Trends, July 1942

Personalities in Science, July 1942

Camera Angles, July 1942

Our Book Corner, July 1942

Current Bulletin Briefs, July 1942

Telescoptics, July 1942