Find all scientific errors in this image

In September 1928, the staff of the North American magazine Science and Invention offered its readers the chance to look for scientific errors drawn on the cover of the publication. A $500 prize was guaranteed to anyone who found all 48 errors.

Unfortunately, we can’t give you a reward for solving this visual puzzle, but we do offer you the chance to feel like a real scientist and, to top it off, be the first to find all the logic errors. Not least because there is no Internet, at least until today, a complete solution to the charade that is already 90 years old.

The authors of this challenge assured readers that it was possible to find in the image errors from all scientific areassuch as astronomy, meteorology, optics and physics. Look at the illustration carefully and ask yourself: are these details really logical?

If you want to take the test, just click on the image to see the answer.

The shadows of people and objects are projected in different directions. The wind does not carry away the sailor’s cigarette smoke. There is no cloud that could have produced the lightning. Lightning should have landed at the highest point: the antenna of the adjacent tower.

The transmission lines are not connected to anything. The sundial shows the wrong time. The houses in the background are very different in size: the one on the right is too big and the one on the left is too small. It’s a scaling error. The sign says New York is to the west, but it points east.

It is not possible to see the point where the rainbow touches the water. The Moon cannot be on the same side as the Sun. The sun does not rise in the north. The cardinal points are wrong.

The man sitting behind the table under the parasol has no seat. The dog is walking strangely. The Sun is not reflected in the water. The rainbow color sequence is not correct.

There are no rain marks, although there is a rainbow. The fountain’s jets fall vertically, not in a parabolic curve. The wind does not affect the fountain water. The exhaust pipe is at the front of the car.

This list does not contain all the errors in the image. Can you find the missing ones?