50 Years Ago
- 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.
- Humans
From the September 1, 1934, issue
A new German zeppelin under construction, fossils of giant pigs, and word recognition in dogs.
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From the August 25, 1934, issue
Earrings from Oklahoma's mound builders, a bathysphere's record descent, and gamma rays for splitting atoms.
