AUTO-SHOCKO

Have some REAL FUN with your car. With AUTO-SHOCKO you can give anyone who touches the outside surface of your car a HARMLESS, but VERY EFFECTIVE shock. When the switch inside your car is on, the entire outer surface of the car becomes charged. You can also charge your buddies car by touching your bumper to his. Then he won’t be able to get into his car until you turn off your switch. Can also be left on while car is parked to keep vandals from scratching or damaging your car. Will not run down your battery. AUTO-SHOCKO is probably the best FUN MAKER you will ever own. Easily installed in a few minutes. Sent complete with AUTO-SHOCKO unit, wire, switch, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a remarkably unsexist ad for 1942.

Wanted: Future Faradays and Curies

ALL over America there are high school seniors …. boys and girls . . . who have potential scientific ability and budding creative genius of a high order. These talents are latent . . . awaiting the opportunity for further development through higher education.

To provide this opportunity, Science Clubs of America, sponsored by Science Service, is now conducting an Annual Science Talent Search . . . made financially possible by Westinghouse. This Talent Search has three objectives:
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DIME PUT IN SLOT RINGS DOORBELL
To save a busy housewife from frequent annoyance by unwelcome callers, a doorbell that works only upon the insertion of a dime is soon to be marketed. The coin slides into an inside receptacle, where it closes an electric contact that permits the bell to be rung. If the caller proves to be a friend, the dime is returned as the guest enters; if the visitor is a stranger or one to whom entrance is refused, the money is retained. Dimes kept by the device provide a fund for charities.

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Jungle to Factory—Trail of Auto Tire

Sidewalk from Chicago to New York Could Be Built from Rubber

Annually Consumed in Making Treads and Tubes

ABOUT seven-tenths of the value of rubber products made in the United States is represented in automobile tires and inner tubes, while 75 per cent of the world’s entire output of the material is consumed in their manufacture.

Until recent years the “rubber trail” took its traders into the wildest lands of the tropics, where they confronted untold hardships in order to provide the motorist with velvet shoes for the wheels of his car. Now, the rapid production of rubber on cultivated plantations makes the collecting of the various grades a far easier task.
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Air-Line Hostesses Learn Low-Down on Make-up
Flying is not all a matter of machinery and weather reports, as would-be hostesses for transcontinental airliners learn in their specialized training schools. Even lessons in “flight make-up” are a part of their varied curriculum, and one of them is shown above getting instructions from an expert on how to apply a few deft touches to obtain a well-groomed effect.

Observatory Built of Junk

Great Earthquake Registered on Homemade Instrument—Horsehairs Make Hygrometer

WHEN slippage along an old fault sent violent earth tremors through southern California recently, it wrote a detailed story upon homemade instruments in an amateur scientist’s laboratory near the center of the disturbance. Upon the black drum of a home-constructed seismograph, it swung a needle, giving its builder, Martin G. Murray, a record of the disaster. Ever since last December, Murray had noticed an increase in the number of tremors. Fom December 16 to 26, his instrument registered fourteen shocks. In March came the quake that left hundreds of buildings in ruins. Read the rest of this entry »