Scientific American Magazine Vol 167 Issue 4

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 167, Issue 4

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Features

Slender, Speedy, Scrappy

Destroyers Are Highly Important Factors in Naval Warfare

Walton L. Robinson

Day After Tomorrow

How the War-Time Workings of a Variety of Industries Will be Reflected in Peace-Time Operations

A. P. Peck

Cork Substitute, War Plants, and more

Cometary Tails

Added Light on an Old Perplexity: The Force Which Drives the Gases from the Nuclei

Henry Norris Russell

Refrigeration for Insanity

Hibernation at Lowered Temperatures Promises Value as a Treatment . . . Delayed by the War

Barclay Moon Newman

Better Tests, Electrocution, and more

Future Sources of Power

A Systematic Survey and Evaluation of All the Power Sources at Present Known to Science

C. C. Furnas

Free Electrons

Fluorescent Lighting Stretches Out

Cold-Cathode Tubes, Operated at High Potentials, Have Interesting Applications for Many Uses

Austin C. Lescarboura

Glass, Lightning Charted, and more

Destruction Tests, Throw-Aways, and more

The Mighty Mars

Huge Cargo Planes Will Play a Leading Role In After-the-War World Economic Developments

Alexander Klemin

Plane Range, Jap Engines

Departments

50 Years Ago, October 1942

Personalities in Industry, October 1942

Industrial Trends, October 1942

Our Point of View, October 1942

Camera Angles, October 1942

Our Book Corner, October 1942

Current Bulletin Briefs, October 1942

Telescoptics, October 1942