As usual, when it was time to cast his character in Memento, they went with someone much more attractive.

Man’s Legs Serve as Identification Card
Theodosius D. Rockwell, of Portland, Ore., whose face is shown above and whose legs are shown below, says that he isn’t afraid of amnesia, or loss of memory. His legs are tattoed with his telephone and social security numbers, and with his name and address in forty different languages.

view additional pages

New Comforts for Trailer Travel

ANY attractive spot along the road is home, for the owner of the latest in automobile trailers and fittings. Pictures on these pages show some of the most ingenious accomplishments of clever designers in providing new luxuries for those who live on wheels.

Vying to combine roominess with the most elaborate array of conveniences, trailer makers have performed magic space-saving feats. One offers a double-duty fireplace that heats the trailer by day, and turns into a dresser at night! Another provides a three-gallon hot water tank that swings out over a gasoline-stove burner to heat a supply for the washstand, shower, or kitchen sink, and disappears into a closet when it is not in use.
Read the rest of this entry »

This looks like an early Viewmaster.

POCKET STEREOSCOPE SHOWS VIEWS ON FILM

Gone is the old-fashioned parlor stereoscope of a generation ago, but its counterpart, in modern guise, has just made its appearance. The new pocket-sized form of the instrument, illustrated above, is as small as a pair of opera glasses and uses thirty-five-millimeter motion picture film instead of paper photographs. A shift lever causes the pictures to appear.

Words, Not Numbers,Grace New License Plates
Names, abbreviations, and short words, real or made up, replace numerals on a new form of license plate proposed by Walter W. Hinton, of New York City. By using actual words on car plates, the inventor believes, they will be easier to read, and will make a distinct impression on the mind, thereby making them easier for owners and others to recall.

300 Mile-An-Hour Zep-Plane Proposed

CAPABLE of rifling its way through the air at a speed of 300 miles an hour, or hovering motionless above a chosen spot, an airplane-Zeppelin soon to be put through exhaustive tests at Rapid City, S. D., is expected by its inventors to become the transport plane of the future.

Startling though the design of the plane may be in its radical departure from accepted plans, combining as it does features of both the airplane and the Zeppelin, it represents years of work on the part of Rev. C. H. Loocke, known as the “Flying Parson,” and Lorin Hansen, a young printer.

Suspended in a structure resembling a conventional airplane minus the fuselage is an all-metal, cigar-shaped gas chamber provided with corkscrew type driving vanes. This hull is built of beryllium and filled with helium gas to provide a large percentage of the lift.

view additional pages

The Fascinating Story of Your Motorbike

When Damlier perfected his first clumsy motorbike back in 1885, little did he dream that his brainchild was destined to grow to such a state of staunchness and durability that it could wear out the toughest racing driver. Adopted by the police, the modern version of the powered bike forms the backbone of the speed laws and strikes terror into the hearts of gangsters. This authoritative article tells you some startling facts about the birth, growth and present status of the motorbike.
Read the rest of this entry »

Wow, given that that the list on the first page tops out at a 16″ screen, I wonder what they’d have thought of a 42″ plasma screen? They’d probably suggest you’d only need one per town.

view additional pages

What You Want to Know About Television

Buying a TV set? Here are some practical suggestions to help you decide what you want for how much.

By Carl Dreher
Drawings by Jere Donovan

“How big a set should I buy?”
“How can I tell what’s a good buy?”
“Should I install it myself?”
“How about the antenna?”
“Where should I put the set?”
“What about fire and shock hazards?”
“What’s the best place to buy a set?”

THESE are the questions people are asking about television. Last year a novelty, the galloping postcards now threaten the automobile as the center of family interest. Grownups stare respectfully at moth-eaten movies that wouldn’t pull customers in a free theater. Children are fascinated into silence. Read the rest of this entry »

SUIT GUARDS BOMB OPENER
Dressed in his official costume, the German police officer charged with the responsibility of opening bombs found in the mail looks like an ancient warrior clad in armor. The mask and padding are designed to protect him if an explosion should occur, despite his delicate handling of an infernal machine. In the illustration above, a suspicious package is being opened.

GRAVITY BALLS Tell EXACT TIME

A CLOCK without hands, which tells the exact time by the rolling down hill of steel balls, has been perfected by a Philadelphia inventor. It required twenty years to discover the secret of accuracy in rolling the balk mile after mile, but on a recent three months’ test run the clock showed a gain of only a few minutes.

The steel balls are automatically released at the top and travel in relays to the bottom on track made by two fine music wires. The mechanism starts a new ball every 2-1/2 minutes. When a ball reaches the 60 mark it enters a trip cage which lowers it onto the hour beam. When 60 balls have descended to the beam it tilts and turns indicator to next hour. The device is especially adaptable to window advertising displays.

Stunting Motorcyclist Rides Built-up Motor Bike on Stilts

DEFYING the laws of gravity, a human giraffe recently thrilled spectators at an English charity carnival by riding a built-up motorcycle whose framework was so high that stilts were necessary to reach the foot pedals.

The last word in vertical streamlines, the odd machine was devised as a comedy number in a motorcycle show. Perched upon a seat raised to about three times its normal height, the rider manipulated his mount through extension controls running up to the handle bars. A common one-cylinder engine furnished the motive power.

Service Station for Skeletons

Medical-School Specimens Overhauled in Novel Shop

FIRST AID to skeletons! That’s the business of a strange “hospital” in New York City that annually takes apart, cleans, repairs, ana reassembles scores of dusty and damaged skeletons sent in by medical schools where they are used for study and demonstration. After skilled technicians have finished work on the eerie figures they are returned to their owners as good as new!
Read the rest of this entry »

Latest in Radio Treasure Finders

GOLDEN treasures buried in the earth long ago by misers, pirates and thieves cannot hold out much longer against the swarm of radio treasure finders that are now scouring the countryside.

Two of the latest instruments to appear are pictured in action below. At left is the highly efficient Metalloscope, which amounts to a miniature radio transmitting and receiving set that projects waves down into the earth to locate buried metal. Public utilities companies are making wide use of it to locate old pipe lines, etc. At right is treasure finder developed at California U.