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Index 



30-31; soundproofing, and better 

 acoustics, 13, 32, 33 



Houses, prefabricated, 6, 12-22, 170; 

 building codes, 27; construction of, 

 12, 13; for farms, 214; foundation 

 of, 12, 17; land renting for, 17, 26; 

 standardization, 15, 26; use of glass 

 in construction of, 195, 197, 198; 

 use of light metals, plastics, ply- 

 wood, 28, 165, 175, 178; used for 

 war workers, 13; utility unit, 12 



Hunt, James F., 264 



Hurricane, 119 



Huse, William, 218 



Hycar, 154 



Hycar Chemical Company, 154 



Hydrocarbons, 55, 93; aromatic, 155, 

 162; liquid, 171 



Hydroelectric plants, 174-175 



Hydrogen, 158, 164; in cyclotron, 

 262 



Hydroponics (soilless agriculture), 

 211-212 



Hypertension, 256 



Hypodermic, 229 



Illinois, University of, 31 

 Illustrated London News, The, 138 

 Incandescent light, 30, 116, 179, 181; 



predicted by Roger Bacon, 272 

 India, diet of people, 218 

 Indigo, natural, 156; synthesis of, 159 

 Indium, 181 

 Individualism, 9 

 Industry, 2-11; chemistry in, 171; 



electronics in, 117-119, 122-131; 



transmission of power by radio, 



265-266 



Influenza, 252-253 

 Inland waterways, 101, 106 

 "Innocent passage," right of, 99 

 Inoculation, 228-229, 249, 259 

 Insecticides, 204, 259; "health bomb" 



to fight mosquitoes, 247 

 Iodine, radioactive, 263 

 Ionosphere, 120, 133 

 Iowa State College, 200 



Iowa, U.S.S., in 



Iron, 178, 1 80, 181; in diet, 219-220; 



radioactive, 263; photovoltaic cell, 



264 

 Isoprene, 152 



Japan, 124, 168 

 Jeep, 51-52, 60, 139, 214, 232 

 Jeffers, William M., 151 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital, 239 

 Joslin, Theodore, 3, 4 

 Journal, American Medical Associa- 

 tion, 241-242, 244 

 JU-88, 93 



Kaempffert, Waldemar, 253, 266, 268 



Kaiser, Henry, 16, 90, 102-103, 109 



Kaiser-Hughes H-Ki Flying Boat, 90 



Kaplan, Professor Ira I., 251-252 



KDKA, 132 



Keck, George Fred, 19, 20-21 



Keefer, Dr. Chester S., 246 



Kerr, Dr. William J., 252 



Kettering, Charles F., 50-51, 266 



"Kitchenless house," 38-41 



Kiev, Russia, 63 



Kiev, University, 63 



Knight, Dr. Henry G., 208-209 



"Knock" (detonation), in engines, 54 



Kochalaty, Dr. Walter, 245 



Koch, Dr. Robert, 249 



Koegel, Professor Fritz, 250 



Laboratories, Regional Research, 199, 

 205, 243 



Laboratory, bacteriological, 235; den- 

 tal, 235; optical, 235 



La Guardia Field, 66, 90 



Lamp, incandescent, 30, 116, 179, 181; 

 aluminum citrate light, 267; bac- 

 teria destroyed by, 5, 30, 131; con- 

 trolled by phototube, 30, 127; fluo- 

 rescent, 29-30, 40, 103, 267 



