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Dissatisfaction – AMERICA’S GREATEST ASSET
The electronic computer gulps algebraic equations and releases typed solutions at the rate of 10,-000 per minute. Men with vision created this machine that almost thinks, men who were dissatisfied with old fashioned methods.

Computing machines have created one of the fabulous chapters in the history of American industry. A few enterprising men in each generation have been unwilling to tolerate mediocre tools and methods. They are the physicists, engineers and designers who today are meeting the requirements of our changing world. At Meletron we are testing new materials and creating new techniques to meet constantly higher standards. Dissatisfaction with what has been done, plus the determination to improve, is one of America’s greatest assets. This attitude is a guiding policy at Meletron.

According to this article the answer is: exactly like us.

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WHAT WILL “SPACE PEOPLE” LOOK LIKE?

by Willy Ley
Condensed from This Week Magazine

A short time ago man put artificial satellites in space. Sometime in 1958 we will launch a piloted aircraft into space. Some scientists are confident we could hit the moon with an unmanned rocket today. Within 10 or 20 years spaceflight will be an almost everyday occurrence.

Once we are in space, the question arises — will we be the only ones? Will we find other intelligent beings plying the spaceways, and if so. what will they be like? We cannot predict everything, of course, but we do have a good idea of what space people might look like.
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Something tells me you wouldn’t want those girls to be sitting on this thing when it’s in use unless you like your models extra-crispy style.

THIS GIANT CAPACITOR, a 200,000-volt air condenser with a capacity of 2,500 mmfd., is used as a phantom antenna for testing high-power transmitters. It has 12 hollow plates made of 16-gauge sheet steel and plated first with copper and then with nickel to improve conduction. Shields at the ends of each plate prevent dissipation of electricity. The supporting insulators were designed for a 400,000-volt dry flashover. Despite its 10′ height and 2,000-lb. weight, the unit can be moved easily on its casters or can be taken down completely or assembled in a single day. It was built by the Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation, and is used to test large transmitters at full load without radiating any signals.

For some strange reason this picture reminds me of this article.

Angler Gets Record 956-lb. Tuna
TIPPING the scales at 956 pounds, the biggest tuna ever caught with rod and reel was pulled out of Liverpool bay, Nova Scotia, recently by Thomas Howell, Chicago financier.

More than 200 pounds heavier than Zane Grey’s record catch of a few years ago, the giant fish was landed after only a 3-1/2 hour battle. The strain of the line, holding the mouth of the fish open, actually drowned it.

This ad appeared a little more than a year after the Slinky made its debut, but it’s the only one I’ve ever seen. I wonder if the slinky people got them shut down.

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Valspar Stands Up Fine!

An “ocean of Valspar” would hardly exaggerate the amounts used these war years! Millions of gallons of Valspar paints, varnishes and enamels are meeting the toughest of all tests—protecting our armaments and military installations against Arctic blizzards and blazing tropical sun.
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It’s interesting to read articles like this one, where the revolutionary aspects of one particular piece of technology are considered in near isolation. The author correctly assumes that bombers will get much bigger, fly higher, faster and become much more destructive. But this leads him to the following conclusion:
“In all probability, we shall not see the great numbers of airplanes we had in the last war (WWI).”
Why? Because, “It is so difficult to find aircraft in heavy clouds and in the dark, that the menace of opposing aircraft will be almost negligible.”

People predicting the future often forget that the change they are focusing on is not the only change occurring. In the case of WWII you had radar, acoustic detectors, air patrols, intelligence, radio listening posts and flack among others. All of these combined to require an exponential increase in the number of aircraft, not the great reduction predicted.

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The NEXT WAR in the AIR

By GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL
Former Commander Air Forces, A.E.F.

AIRCRAFT can now be built that will go around the world at the equator on one charge of fuel.

Lighter-than-air craft now can be made to carry fifty or sixty tons of useful load besides crew and fuel; they can ascend to 30,000 feet or more, and their radius of action is greater than that of any other known means of transportation.

Heavier-than-air craft now can be made to go from 6,000 to 8,000 miles, carrying 4,000 pounds of bombs, to operate at an altitude of 35,000 feet, and at a speed between 300 and 400 miles an hour.

But at present we are in a period of arrested development in air power plants because we cannot easily get away from the internal-combustion engine. We are making these bigger and more powerful continually, at present up to about 4,000 horsepower, while our engine fuel is being made safer and more economical. Steam engines and rocket engines are being experimented with, but our greatest aerial development will come with the development of an entirely new type of engine, lighter, stronger, safer and less complicated. The modern gasoline engine has from 2,000 to 5,000 different parts, one of the most complicated mechanisms ever made, not excepting the mechanical toys of the middle ages.
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New Device Locates Buried Metal
REQUIRING no technical knowledge to operate, a new detection instrument is said to be unusually efficient in locating buried metal or virgin ore. Electrical impulses, sent through a hoop-like coil, set up disturbances on a recording meter, indicating metal’s presence.

Latest in Travel—Two-Wheeled Cart With Auto Tires
MARTIN SOADACK, combination farmer and general handyman of Baldwins-ville, New York, likes comfort when he rides, and the rocky and rutty road between his home and town had none of these conveniences to offer.

But was Mr. Soadack downhearted? He was not. A little mechanical ingenuity was brought into action and now Mr. Soadack suffers from the “jounces” no more. What conquered the situation is shown in the accompanying photo. When Mr. Soadack had decided that he had been bumped about for the last time, he descended upon a junkyard and there procured two old auto wheels. Next he procured a two-wheeled cart, and then assembled his acquisitions.

Now Mr. Soadack rides to town in comfort and is said to give his friends the laugh when he passes them on the road.

Flivver With a Kick
STUDENTS at the University of Houston recently converted a sedate Ford into a bucking bronco! Under the direction of W. C. Rowlette of the automotive shop, they built Leapin’ Lena for the school’s annual Frontier Fiesta show.

A ‘39 Ford which hadn’t been doing anyone much good was stripped of its old frame. The correct mechanical touches gave it
the lope and bounce of a real Western horse and a saddle was added. Then, the mechanized bronco was ready for the show.
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It’s comforting to know that the media industry’s fascination with screwing their customers by telling them how they can use their own TVs is nothing new.

Pay-as-You-Look Television
“Phone vision,” developed by Zenith Radio Corporation, offers paying television audiences the cream of latest stage plays and movies. A combination home receiver brings in free programs as usual. Special features reach it partly by air, partly by phone line. Blurred when viewed alone (above, right), the radio image becomes clearer (left) with key frequencies received by phone. “Admission charges” go on phone bill.