Odd Devices Wake Sleepers Who Scorn Alarm Clocks (Feb, 1938)
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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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Odd Devices Wake Sleepers Who Scorn Alarm Clocks
Taking the place of the traditional alarm clock, two odd methods of rousing sleepers are illustrated by the photographs above and at the right. An enterprising Englishman makes his morning rounds on a bicycle, using a pole to place an electrically operated bell against the bedroom windows of his customers. In Tennessee, a hotel telephone operator blows a hunting horn into the phone to rouse hunters.
