Features
Inventions Win Wars
Suggested Developments, To Detect, Defeat Warplanes, Submarines, Humanitarian Aspects, Physical Principles Which Inventors Must Follow
Seismographing for Oil
History in a Bog
Forest Managers Beginning to Use a Method of Long-range Climatic Prediction, Based on the Study of Fossil Pollen Grains with Microscopes
What Causes Magnetic Storms?
Not Sun-Spots but Gases Erupted from the Sun and Traveling to Earth at Times of Solar Turmoil, Sun-Spots May but Need Not Accompany This
Tantalum--New Old Metal
Unsurpassed In Many Uses, Especially Chemical Equipment, Has Passivity of Glass, Strength of Steel, Hard Tools Made by Powder Metallurgy
What is Death?
Science May Know When it Learns What Life Is, No Surgeon Ever Brought a Dead Patient Back to Life, We Do Not Die All Over, All at Once
Marvels of the Night
Striking Natural Phenomena, The Aurora, Zodiacal Light, and Bizarre Types of Lunar Halos
Foods X-Rayed
To Reveal Presence of Foreign Objects, Some Impurities, Also Condition of Products, Fruits, Fluoroscopic Inspection Widely Used
A Big Gun of Science
The Brasch and Lange Apparatus, Old-timer in Splitting the Atomic Nucleus, Faces a Revival with Improvements in Generating Artificial Lightning
For Better Roads
Extensive Studies of Present Highways, Visibility, Grades, Curves, Traffic Quantity, Quality, Speed, Data Aid Future Planning
Goethe Link Observatory
Built, With Its 36-Inch Telescope, by Amateur Astronomers of Indianapolis, Financed by Local Enlightenment, Presented to Science
Ghost Forests
Insects, Number One Forest Enemy, Make Ghosts of a Vast Number of Trees, Bark Beetle Heads the List, Other Insects, Man Combat the Pest
Indian Arrow Poison for Arthritis, Mental Disease, Enamels for Plastics, and more
Departments
50 Years Ago, June 1940
- From the Editor
Our Point of View, June 1940
- Recommended
Our Book Corner, June 1940
- Departments
Camera Angles, June 1940
Telescoptics, June 1940
Current Bulletin Briefs, June 1940
Legal High-Lights
Index to Vol. 162