Mechanical Ride Thumber Speeds Hitch-Hikers Across Country (Feb, 1938)
Filed under: Just Weird, Sign of the Times — @ 7:40 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1938
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1938
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Mechanical Ride Thumber Speeds Hitch-Hikers Across Country
CREDIT for their crossing of the continent in twenty-seven days is given by two Maine college students to the odd mechanical thumber which they used to hitch auto rides. A wooden hand with thumb extended is pivoted to a metal destination sign supported by a hollow pole. Pulling a wire operates a spring to jerk the hand in the approved hitch-hiker’s gesture.
Gee, only 27 DAYS!
Last time I hitched from SF to NJ it took 8 days and I went via Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
Comment by Stannous — April 7, 2007 @ 8:23 am
Trained roaches smuggle smokes, universe in a dish, watch-case phonographs……
Trained Cockroach smuggles smokes, nice hack – Link. Inventors on the air, it’s like “American Inventor” but on the radio from the 1930’s (and I bet a lot better) – Link. How the universe was formed (experiment!) – Link…….
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