Scientific American November 1931 Volume 145 Number 5

1931

New York

Munn, Orson D.: Editor

Scientific American Publishing Company

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Features: Africa's first national park, Editorials - building for parity a false alarm - whose fault is, it?, Power development on the Columbia River - the first power, project on one of the most famous of North American streams, United States plant patent number 1 - only time will show the, value of plant patents, the first of which has just been released, The hottest place in the universe - what keeps the stars, shining?, Henry Ford, the Practical - the automobile manufacturer knows how to do, things, and how to get them done, Are there creatures like ourselves in other worlds?, The birth, life, and death of a railroad ticket, Mercury vapor power to the fore - two new and larger units have, been ordered, Australia's great meteorite, Paper's thinnest web - making tissue paper, Where not to look for oil and gas, Electrical aids to blind flying, Etruscan safety pin, Excavating Rome's seaport, A modernized university library - Sterling Memorial Library at, Yale, Why question the reasoning of animals? - authentic stories seem, to indicate their reasoning power. Page 293 is a full page, tribute, with black and white photo, to thirty-year old Linus Pauling, hailed as "a rising star who may yet win the Nobel Prize." Light, erasure mark at top corner of front cover. Average wear., Unmarked. Magazine Back Issues

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