1 POPULAR | LAECHANICS 9 MAGAZINE See on Cea rg ri rah lad )ne ee Spi ied fon od ins oat eo i a a ily cing can et Spe tt eel tesa ‘on dB sane jd os rte wong Ax war's xo, the Dell System began to build many more Lang Distance coasial cireuits. Hus deeds of telephone calls can be ‘carried by each of these becouse of elecric wave fiers, which suide each convenation slong ite assigned frequency channel. Ki to these filters was theie quency sensitive plates of quarts. But there ae not enougls suitable quartz available to bald all che ltere needed. Rell Tele phone Laboratories scientists met the emergency with cultivated Crystals for Conversations “sanyo conrrsatins tarred by evan rat ‘nd ested So acm Cal. enyatls Years of research eo bled them to write the preserip- tion at once —e crystal which is grown in a laboratory, and which replaces quartz in these flkers Now Western Electric, man- facturing unit of the Bell Sys tem, is growing exystls by che thousands. Many moce Long Distance telephone circuits, tangent demand, can he butt, be cause the scientists of Bell Tele Phone Laboratories had studied the physics and chemistry of aniicial crystal ® BELL TELEPHONE LABOMATONIES 2 POPULAR MECHANICS Popular Mechanics Magazine HLH. WINDSOR, Founder HH, WINDSOR, Js, Editor and Publisher Velen eer Aviation Eater Mek bs hriecs er Donald Srecks Charles. Emerton Atha R.Relon toppled by the country’s 18000000 fans are clate | 4, Auta Edtar Shep Note ord Cas eee the alae tall trdntammey Mayan lekey Jahn Shrck AB Youngayit Volume again this fall We asked J ‘Joe Witman, voted 1946's“ Bovrlex In This Issue ff the Year" by. sports. writers, for a fow tips. on Knocking over | Science HQ of the Navy- - - - a9 seikes ing Picking up spare | Fancy Freighters Ride Ol’ Man River 100 Sek arate aes | Buea for Bowler eee 15 Bisaicene kei: | Sty on pace ite Flying Trouble Spotters - - > - il NEXT MONTH'S ISSU tures Policing the Bering Sea - - - - y 2 thip underground to the "Colos- Sus of Coal” a mechanized tannel thet pours forth enough tual in a single day to heat 200) homes for the Winter. Anothor fast-moving yen describes the thrills and Spills of motoreycle racing—over course rough enough to shale the confidence of any rider. The Intest sirveying inetruments given # close inspection in "New For the Craftsman ‘Methods for Plotters." STRAIGHT from Santa's work shop come the ext month's Craftsman’ coction, ‘Tis pee-Christmas feature tolls how ebuild. toye, gumen, gilt items and. chikiven’s furniture, ‘Also, for the man who builds his ‘vem machines there's the frst in Stallmont of a two-part article de filing the construction of a table saw with a tilting arbor. The home Workshop ean bea dangerote place—and ‘a Noveraber feature {alls how to operate #hop eqyip= mont safely RECEIVERS, amplifiors and transmitters ean he operated with the compact power-unit described in next month's Radio sectior inter Bouquets OCTOBER 1947POPULAR MECHANICS Science HO of the Navy THE NAVY'S BIGGEST scientific esteb- secrecy. ‘A group of about 20 enormous buildings —with the appearance of « big industrial Henry A. Schade, more than a thousand physicists, chemists land engineers have tumed to ® mapping the bottom of the ocean single war development except for the ‘atomic bomb, the radar. Here originated the techniques of determining depths and ‘by sound lege yas develoyed uc of he fhermal-difusion process for separating ‘of cleats, which Rindamental rescarches in the By Thomas R. Henry as"an csscatil fist step in ocroRER 1047