50 Years Ago

Humans

From the November 24, 1934, issue

The 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded, Jupiter's great red spot is explained, and a polar ice cap shivers in the wind.

Humans

From the November 17, 1934, issue

Exploring Easter Island, warm air at high altitudes, and pulsating stars.

Humans

From the November 10, 1934, issue

Largest steel frame house, a new instrument to map the ocean bottom, and a new, faster-acting anesthetic.

Humans

From the November 3, 1934, issue

Telephone transmitters, taking the bitter taste out of certain medicines, and the composition of planets.

Humans

From the October 27, 1934, issue

A large telescope lens made in Russia, artificial gamma rays from sodium, and acetylcholine revealed as message carrier for nerve cells.

Humans

From the October 20, 1934, issue

Searching New York's East River for golden treasure, enormous canyon discovered in Mexico, and new radioactive elements predicted.

Humans

From the October 13, 1934, issue

A wingless rooster, production of artificial radioactive elements, and novae proposed as the origin of cosmic rays.

Humans

From the October 6, 1934, issue

Glass models of rotifers, anthrax as a threat among agricultural workers, and cosmic-ray studies in the stratosphere.

Humans

From the September 29, 1934, issue

Structural details of chromosomes, America's Cup yacht technology, and an improved street car.

Humans

From the September 22, 1934, issue

Giant ocean liner ready for launch, synthetic vitamin C produces unexpected cures, and systematic problem solving in chimpanzees.

Humans

From the September 15, 1934, issue

Magnificent Mt. Rainier, high-altitude rockets, and how motion pictures change children's attitudes.

Humans

From the September 8, 1934, issue

Ditches on the moon's surface, 12,000-year-old bones and dart points, and nature as waves of knowledge in the mind.