Features
Insanity at the Wheel
To What Extent do Psychopathic Cases Contribute to Motor-Vehicle Accidents? . . . Weeding Out the Unfit by Specialized Analysis of Attitudes
Research on High Pressures
A Curiosity of Science is Proving to Have Direct Practical Bearing on a Large Number of Industrial Problems, Examples of Promising Applications.
Noise Control
Necessity, Not a Fad, Controlled at Source, Stopped or Damped by Scientific Design, Improved Efficiency, Calm Nerves, Less Deafness
Our Galaxy Re-Measured
Galactic Rotation Efects, Interstellar Absorption and Certain Dynamical Constants of the Galaxy Have Been Determined from Cepheid Variable Stars
Cuba-Key to Manganese Problem
Manganese Vital in Steel Manufacture, We Have None, War Would Cut Down Imports, Cuba Now Supplies Some, Momentous American Achievement
Eyes that See Through Atoms
Spectroscopic Analysis the Supersensitive, In Vitamin Research the Spectroscope Short-Circuits the Overworked Rat, The X-Ray Spectrograph
Two Elements for One
The Most Important Scientifc Discovery of the Present Year is also the Biggest Explosion in Atomic History, Splitting the Uranium Atom
Preserved in Plastics
High Blood Pressure
Various are the Possible Causes of this Ill, but Worry and Nervous Excitement Probably are Large Factors . . . Calm Rest the Best Cure . . . Loaf, Loaf, Loaf
Departments
50 Years Ago, October 1939
- From the Editor
Our Point of View, October 1939
- Recommended
Our Book Corner, October 1939
- Departments
Personalities in Science, October 1939d
To Determine Moisture Content of Gases, Ring Gears Cast Centrifugally, and more
Camera Angles, October 1939
What's New in Photographic Equipment
Camera Angles Round Table, October 1939
Telescoptics, October 1939
Current Bulletin Briefs, October 1939
Legal High-Lights, October 1939