Seems like this would be a loud place to eat, what with all the dishes sliding down chutes and all.
AUTOMATIC SERVING COUNTER FOR LUNCH ROOMS
An automatic serving-counter for lunch rooms and restaurants is intended to eliminate the need of waiters. When the customer enters a restaurant where one of these appliances is installed, he finds a clean tray, having tiny wheels, and a menu card before his seat. After checking off his order on the card, which is later used as a pay check, he places it on the tray, pushes a button, and the wheeled tray travels on a track to the kitchen. Here, the cook fills the order and sends the tray back to the counter. At the completion of the meal, when the customer rises from his seat, the tray travels again to the kitchen with the soiled dishes.
This problem of people being too skinny and wanting to add “flesh” seems to be one we’ve thoroughly licked. Though Coca Cola and McDonalds have been far more effective than Kelp-A-Malt or Fleischmann’s Yeast ever could have dreamed.
Girls with “Naturally Skinny” Figures …AMAZED AT THIS ENTIRELY NEW WAY TO ADD 5 LBS. OF SOLID FLESH IN 1 WEEK…OR NO COST!
New Natural Mineral Concentrate From the Sea, Rich in FOOD IODINE, Building Up Weak, Rundown Men and Women Everywhere.
THOUSANDS of thin, pale, rundown folks—and even “Naturally Skinny” men and women—are amazed at this new, easy way to put on healthy needed pounds quickly. Gains of 15 to 20 lbs. in one month—5 lbs. in one week—are reported regularly.
Kelp-a-Malt, the new mineral concentrate from the sea—gets right down to the cause of thin, underweight conditions and adds weight through a “3 ways in one” natural process.
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Once, by my Roomba, but we both promised never to speak of it again.
Ever Had Your Colon “House Cleaned?”
Large Per Cent, of All Ills and Ailments Have Their Source in the Neglected “Cellar” of the Human Body
IT’S only natural to neglect the cellar of the house, the part you don’t see. Yet, as a matter of fact it’s more important to keep the cellar clean and airy than any other part of the house.
The colon, or large intestine, may be called the cellar of the human body. It’s there the rubbish or waste matter from digested food collects for passage out of the body—only the body waste is no mere rubbish, but highly toxic or poisonous waste.
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These have finally become popular now, but they use LED’s instead.
TAIL LIGHT SHINES ACROSS CAR
An automobile tail light, resembling a neon tube, has been developed by an Indianapolis, Ind., inventor. The streak of red light, running across the car is easily seen from any position in the rear and it also outlines the width of the vehicle. This is especially desirable in the case of unusually wide buses. The light is tubular in shape and from fifty-four to ninety inches in length. Two standard tail light bulbs, which are placed inside the tube, supply the illumination.
This certainly seems like a pain in the ass way to make a transistor.
The machine we call “Mr. Meticulous”
Bell Laboratories scientists, who invented the junction transistor, have now created an automatic device which performs the intricate operations required for the laboratory production of experimental model transistors.
It takes a bar of germanium little thicker than a hair and tests its electrical characteristics. Then, in steps of 1/20,000 of an inch, it automatically moves a fine wire along the bar in search of an invisible layer of positive germanium to which the wire must be connected. This layer may be as thin as 1/10,000 of an inch!
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Interesting and fairly comprehensive article about the state of television in 1948. A time when there were less than 60 stations covering about a million viewers.
What every family wants to know about Television
by Miles Ginsberg
The frontier days are back in one. sector of the American economy. The television industry, only a shadowy outline a year ago, is galloping toward giantism with much of the driving, mercurial spirit of an earlier time in this country. All a television executive needs to be completely in character is a six-shooter and a pair of spurs.
In the wild and wooly television industry, every company releasing information has an axe to grind and a hatchet to throw at the next company’s facts. Nevertheless, by balancing claim against claim, a reporter can compile an amazingly optimistic set of fairly solid facts about television. For example:
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I love that picture.
Do You Get Traffic Jitters?
IMAGINE that you are driving your car at a good clip down a boulevard running through the residential section of a city. The road is wide and uncluttered by traffic. Your car purrs along smoothly. Suddenly, with no warning whatever, a woman darts out from the sidewalk and throws herself directly into your path.
What will your reactions be? What will be the effect on your nerves? How will the shock of the experience affect your subsequent driving?
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Remember, it’s wonderful for the aged!
Exercycle - “Runs By Itself”
There’s no easier way to keep fit, trim and strong!
MILLIONS CAN NOW ENJOY THE BLESSINGS OF DAILY EXERCISE AT HOME
There’s a world of difference between exercising yourself, and letting EXERCYCLE do it. That’s why tens of thousands of men and women have chosen this easier, simpler and more convenient way of keeping themselves fit, trim and strong. For exercycle is the only fully-automatic, motor-driven exercising instrument that can give you a complete physiological workout from head to foot while you just sit and relax.
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WORLD RANSACKED FOR SPECTROSCOPE PRISMS
New facts about health lamps are being discovered in a Cleveland, Ohio, laboratory by scientists armed with the largest spectroscope in the world. Behind the construction of this giant instrument lies a story that shows the lengths to which experimenters must go in obtaining the tools with which to work. When General Electric engineers set out to design an instrument technically known as a “double monochromator,” with which the intensity of any particular wave length of light could be measured with great precision, their plans called for prisms of crystalline quartz with faces four times as large as those commonly used.
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Seems kind of like cheating when you send ahead the trucks full of gasoline.
MOTOR CARS CROSS SAHARA DESERT
FIVE motor cars, all equipped with special endless-tread drives of rubber to plow through the deep sand, and some mounted with machine guns to repel anticipated attacks from desert robber bands, recently completed a journey across the Sahara Desert of approximately 2,000 miles, from Tug-gurt, in Algeria, to Timbuktu, in French West Africa.
The caravan left Tuggurt on December 18, last year, but first, in order to insure a proper supply of fuel, water, and food, other cars were sent ahead as far as Insala to establish depots, while a similar outfit left Dakar in the south and approached north to a military station at Kidal. The expedition proper then set forth, arriving at Timbuktu on January 7. just 20 days later, the time being several months faster than average camel time for the same distance.
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