50 Years Ago, October 1940

(Condensed From Issues of October, 1890)

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This article was originally published with the title “50 Years Ago in Scientific American” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 163 No. 4 (October 1940), p. 180
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1040-180

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