Compass Mounted on Hat Brim Is Handy Guide for Hiker
Always there to guide you, yet never in the way, a tiny compass clipped to the hat brim is a useful companion on a tramp through woods or mountains, a hunting trip, or bicycle expedition. It clips on the hat or cap just above the line of vision. A floating disk with the needle attached bears the initials of the four points of the compass, and through a window in the base the di-
TELEVISION on the JOB
It extends human vision beneath seas, into furnaces and throughout factories.
TELEVISION is adding overalls to its dress clothes. Its sleeves are rolled-it is ready to go to work!
To most of us, television has been a promise of armchair entertainment—a chance to have choice seats at boxing bouts, football games, news events and stage plays without budging from the budget or the living room. That phase of television is here, but television’s future goes far beyond the mere prospects of animated quiz shows and soap operas you can see.
Television, like radio, is a versatile tool. A relatively small percentage of the radio waves that flash around the earth today carry music and comedy to our loudspeakers. Most of them have more important missions. Radio helps us go places and do business. Without it, large-scale scheduled air travel would be impossible, sea travel would be slowed, crime prevention hampered, news coverage cut down, and international business and diplomacy limited.
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Ski Rack Fits on Car Running Board
Six pairs of skis and ski poles can easily be carried on the running board of an automobile with an inexpensive carrier now available. Skis are placed at an angle with their heels on the running board near the rear fender and their tips facing forward over the front fender. They are held in place by vertical metal arms that are fastened to the running board by hand-screw clamps.
Luxury for Sale: Price, Only $19,200
THE dignified products of Britain’s Rolls-Royce, Ltd., cost from two to three times as much as the most expensive American car. What does a buyer get when he planks down $18,450 to $19,200 for a Rolls-Royce, or $12,900 to $17,700 for its faster, slightly smaller sister, the Bentley?
He receives one of the most carefully engineered automobiles in the world, with such refinements as separate high- and low-pressure oil systems, a vibration-reducing
spring drive between engine and cam shaft, servo-controlled brakes, and a one-push pedal that grease-guns the car. Five months’ handwork will have finished the body to his personal taste—in England the customer is invited to the factory to check on progress. But although the buyer pays heavily for tradition and mechanical beauty, he gets quality and performance that are timeless.
Motorized Wheel Chairs Step Over Curbs and Climb Stairs
Two inventors—Ove Hauschild of Copenhagen, Denmark, and R. E. Church of Elkin, N. C.—have similar ideas about giving the wheel-chair patient more mobility. The Danish invention is an electric stair-climbing chair. Three small wheels connected by a vee belt rotate around each end of the axle. The chair will go up or down the steepest stairs, although an attendant is needed to steady the device. The
American vehicle is powered by a two-horsepower gasoline engine and enables the operator to ride over curbs, climb steep grades and negotiate twTo or three steps at a time—all without outside aid. On each side, a large wheel at the front is connected to a small rear wheel by a vee belt. In normal-travel position the vehicle rides on the two main wheels and a center tail wheel which turns for steering.
Phono Runs on Spring or AC
One drawback to the production of AC-DC-battery phonograph portables has been the lack of motors that would operate anywhere. Capitol Records, Inc., of Hollywood, combines an AC motor and a spring-drive mechanism with a three-way amplifier to get a truly portable record player.
Suction Cup Shoes in Plane Stunt
J. D. PATE, famous airplane stunt man, illustrates in the photo below his latest invention in the way of aviation thrill-makers. In performing his amazing stunt, Mr. Pate fastens a piece of plate glass on the top wing of an airplane. Then he dons a pair of special shoes which are equipped with suction rubbers on the soles, and stands on the glass. These rubber suckers anchor him firmly to the wing.
When the plane has attained considerable height, the pilot turns the plane upside down and Mr. Pate hangs suspended by his shoes from the wing.
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Monroe Velvet Touch 800 Adding Machine
The new colorful Monroe “800″ gives your business the unmistakable forward look—provides the “touch of velvet” that makes anyone a figuring expert. Its beauty of design and advanced precision keyboard bring gracious decor and streamlined efficiency to the truly modern office. Under this distinctive case is a mechanism built to endure for years to come.
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Copying Machine Works In 8 Colors
AN IMPROVED type of copying machine is capable of reproducing anything written with pencil, pen, or typewriter in as many as eight colors in a single operation. A gelatin material used in place of a stencil absorbs the inks used in making the original in sufficient quantities to reproduce hundreds of copies.
Identification Garter for Women
IDENTIFICATION of women injured in accidents is often slowed up because purses, parcels and papers have been lost or stolen in the melee.
This novel “tag,” shown on the left, is made of gold or silver and has the full description of the wearer engraved on the smooth plate.
Push-Button Manor
Jackson, Mich.By Arthur R. Railton
REMEMBER those wartime dreams of lazy living in postwar homes with push buttons to do all the work? Well, like most of us, you’re probably still getting by in a house where the only push button rings the doorbell. But there’s at least one fellow who is making those dreams come true.
Emil Mathias of Jackson, Mich., traces his mechanical aptitude back to his youth when he harnessed the wind to grind the family’s weekly supply of coffee. A small windmill, some gears, a shaft or two, all went together to create a power coffee grinder that Mathias still remembers as one of his favorite devices.
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These look an aweful lot like the new Tweels introduced by Michelin last year. Although I doubt the Tweels are made of wood…
Rubber Spokes Give Bounce to Airless Safety Tires
Hard wood, embedded in rubber, forms the rim of a new safety tire invented by J. V. Martin of Garden City, N. Y. Said to be more resilient and lighter than pneumatic types, the safety tire has hoops of hickory incased in rubber and fitted with crisscross spokes of ribbed rubber. Punctureproof and blowout-proof, the airless tires absorbed practically all vertical movement when a springless test car drove over four-inch blocks strung along a concrete road in a recent trial, it is claimed.
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