Scientific American Magazine Vol 169 Issue 1

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 169, Issue 1

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Features

Personalities in Science, July 1943

Edward C. Schneider

Sky Sentries on Guard

Imporant U. S. Centers Are Protected by Barrage Balloons

R. G. Picinich

War Prisoners

Study and Teach Science Behind Barbed-Wire

Sugar, A 'Chemically-Pure' Food

Highly Technical Industrial Processes, Plus Efficient Operation of Plants, Produce Beet Sugar at Low Cost

Roy H. Cottrell

Die Production, Odor Problems, and more

By New Method Reduces Time and Labor Requirements

Ultra-Violet--Near, Middle, Far

Many Industrial and Personal Uses Are Being Made of the Phenomena Surrounding these Radiations

Lawrence C. Porter

Electronics Mystery, Molecular Attraction

Solved, May Lead to Improved Vacuum Tubes

Anthropocentrism's Demise

New Discoveries Lead to the Probability that There Are Thousands of Inhabited Planets in our Galaxy

Henry Norris Russell

Can Colds Be Prevented?

There is no Effective Method for the Prevention of the Common Cold--Not Vaccines, Not Vitamins

Robert H. Feldt

Climacteric, Heart Watching, and more

Do Men Also Have Such a Period?

'Wers' Calling

Radio Amateurs and Other Volunteer Workers are Setting Up a Communications System for War or Peace

Ulysses S. Grant

Electric Brain, Radio Sewing Machine, and more

Remembers What Happens in a Rectifying Circuit

Three-Liquid Pump, Commutator Cleaner, and more

Helicopter Progress

Present Orders and Future Possibilities Point Toward a Fertile Field for Rotating Wing Aircraft

Alexander Klemin

Fuselage Sandblasting, Flight Training, and more

Used in Fabrication of Primary Training Plane

Departments

50 Years Ago, July 1943

Our Point of View, July 1943

Industrial Trends, July 1943

Current Bulletin Briefs, July 1943

Telescoptics, July 1943

Our Book Corner, July 1943