Scientific American Magazine Vol 169 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 169, Issue 2

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Features

Invasion Communications

The Jobs of the Signal Corps are Many and Varied

Richard L. Sigerson

Industrial Blasting

Technological Progress Reveals New Uses for Dynamite as Well as New Dynamites that are Safe, Controllable

Frank J. Byrne

Vest-Pocket Automobiles, Glue "Welding," and more

Galactic Gas Clouds

A Complex System of Enormous Rarefied Clouds of Gas Moving at High Velocity Has Been Discovered

Henry Norris Russell

Science Enters The Woods

Research Shows that Good Forestry Practice Can Provide a Permanent Pulp and Paper Supply

C. E. Randall

Elmer Sperry and His Magic Top

How an Inspired Inventor with an Ancient Toy Altered the World of Marine and Aerial Navigation

Francis Sill Wickware

The Culprit Is Histamine

A Substance Normally in Our Body Cells Makes Trouble When it Escapes into the Blood Stream

L. W. Giellerup

Child Cancer, Whose Fault?

Cancer is Not Confined to Middle and Old Age; Nobody's—And Certainly Not the Mother's

Oil From Canadian Sands

Billions of Barrels of Oil, but Not for Lubrication, May be Drawn from Northeastern Alberta

Leonard Bourne

Orphan Agar

But Poorly Known to the General Public, Agar is One of the Nation's Most Critical War Materials

Harold Keen

Finest Wind Tunnel, Electrical Protection, and more

Plastic Adhesive and Cleaner, Wrinkle Finish, and more

Integral Supercharger, Post-War, and more

Pre-Flight Training

Economy of Both Time and Money are Achieved With Trainer that Gives Complete Illusion of Flight

Alexander Klemin

Departments

50 Years Ago, August 1943

"Quotes," August 1943

Industrial Trends, August 1943

Our Point of View

Our Book Corner, August 1943

Telescoptics, August 1943

Current Bulletin Briefs, August 1943