Features
Earthquakes Need Not Kill
A Small Percentage Added to Building Costs for Adequate Bracing is Changing Earthquakes from a Dreaded Horror to an Interesting Phenomenon
Tinted Lenses
Sun Glasses Should Give Adequate Protection Yet Maximum Visibility, Objective is to Eliminate Rays Which Do Not Contribute to Seeing
In the Transatlantic Service
McDonald Observatory
The Large New Observatory in Western Texas Was Made Possible by an Amateur, An Admirable Site, An Efficient Housing and a High-grade Telescope
Under the Nieuwe Maas
Unique Tunnel at Rotterdam, For Vehicles, Pedestrians, Cyclists, Rectangular, Sections Built on Land, Then Floated Out and Sunk in Place
Flint Flaking
The Amateur Workman, as He Practices, Can Progress in Days through the Same Stages of Skill for which his Ancestors Required More Than 100,000 Years of Gradual Invention
More Oil From Crooked Wells
Controlled Directional Drilling . . . Significant Advance . . . Adds to Available Oil . . . Offshore Pools Tapped From Land Rigs . . . Other Uses
We Build More Ships
The American Merchant Marine Begins Extensive, Orderly Expansion, Important for Our Economic Self-Sufficiency and National Security
Prehistoric Amfoils
Aboriginal Boomerangs Were Based on Principles Only Recently Rediscovered Analogous to the Helicopter, For Sport, Game, Protection
Departments
50 Years Ago, August 1939
- From the Editor
Our Point of View, August 1939
- Recommended
Our Book Corner, August 1939
- Departments
Personalities in Science, August 1939
Unique Hinged Swing Spans on Bridge, Blight Resistant Chestnut, and more
Camera Angles, August 1939
What's New in Photographic Equipment, August 1939
Camera Angles Round Table, August 1939
Telescoptics, August 1939
Current Bulletin Briefs, August 1939
Legal High-Lights, August 1939