The Challenge of Space
The dream of human flight is as old as man—and the ultimate goal is the stars.
This bike seems like it’s a little more complicated than it needs to be.
Supergeared French Bike Gives Cyclist Choice of Several Speeds
There’s a weird assortment of sprockets and chains incorporated into a supergeared bicycle invented in France. The chains appear to run at random all over the framework of the bicycle, but the arrangement gives the rider a choice of several gears. The bicycle has two-wheel brakes.
Fairy Tales Come to Life
Children’s Fairyland in Lakeside Park. Oakland, Calif., includes Noah’s Ark which houses a pair of very active monkeys and floats in a small lagoon.
The Little Red Schoolhouse is the home of Carrie, the black sheep and Mary’s little lamb plus mama. Eighteen sets spread over two acres, cost $50,000.
Science Remakes the Dog
How Breeders Are Changing The Appearance and Nature Of Our Canine Population To Bring Out the Qualities That Are Made Desirable By Modern Living Conditions
By Jesse F. Gelders
DOGS are getting smaller. Subject to style trends, the same as clothing, automobiles, and houses, they are adapting themselves— or, rather, being adapted—to the changed conditions of modern life.
People today are demanding dogs that can live in small homes or apartments, and ride in automobiles, without crowding out their human companions; dogs that can keep fit with a minimum of exercise; smart, good-natured dogs, and—an important consideration, sometimes—dogs that will not eat their masters out of house and home.
The word quartet implies an association with music but the article doesn’t mention that. If so it would be a sight and sound worthy of a Southpark episode.
Lost Cord Quartet Have Artificial Voices
Pour men deprived of their vocal cords, but with their voices restored by an artificial larynx, formed the odd quartet, at left, as they met for a chat at St. Petersburg, Fla. The device transmits to the mouth the tone of an electrically vibrated reed, which the lips and tongue can modulate into the sounds of speech.
She sure does love his Prince Albert…Where exactly is her hand?
This ad is really dirty even without the modern meaning of Prince Albert: “Women love the looks of a pipe in a man’s mouth.”
Just look at that reaction— to the attraction of P.A.
P.A. means Pipe Appeal
Women love the looks of a pipe in a man’s mouth. They call it “impressive”.. .”smooth.” Like crisp linen, fine leather, good tweeds, a pipe is smart, manly, and…so comfortable!
P.A. means Prince Albert
Insure your PIPE APPEAL by loading that pipe with PRINCE ALBERT. Its fine fragrance makes your pipe smell as good to her as it looks. And your tongue will say “thanks!” for P.A.’s wonderful mildness. The real flavor of fine tobacco—and so gentle to your tongue.
P. A. is swell for roll-your-owns too. Crimp cut clings to the paper…rolls quick, easy, and firm.
THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE
This is the birth of the airplane black box. Doesn’t look all that sturdy, does it?
Recorder Logs Flight
Flight analyzers installed on passenger planes of a leading American air line will record the craft’s altitude during flight, the amount of time a “gyro” or automatic pilot is in use, and the number and time of radio reports to the ground. In case of a crash, the records may help shed light on the cause.
My siblings and I would have loved a room like this. I do have a minor quibble with the characterization of a 12×18 as “minimal”. That’s bigger than any room in my house by quite a bit.
Toys and Ideas Fill Kids’ Rumpus Room
A MODEL playroom—a child’s dream world from floor to ceiling—has been designed by architect Joseph Aronson for the American Toy Institute, research division of Toy Manufacturers of U.S.A., Inc. The idea of the 12- by 18-foot model room is to get the most out of maximum play area in minimum space in a way that the average home owner can duplicate, either in a whole room or in a corner of a bedroom. The model emphasizes elevated play areas and ample, easy-to-reach toy-storage space. A linoleum floor with inlaid patterns avoids the splinter hazard and doubles as a hopscotch field. Dust-catching decorations and sharp corners are eliminated, and bright colors add the finishing touch.
How exactly does one turn with this thing?
Squirrel Cage for jeeps is this new device for travel over swamps, bogs, soft beaches and heavy underbrush. It’s a continuous road matting on rollers which runs around the body and under the wheels. The Marine Corps is testing it at the Quantico, Virginia, base.
You can download this entire book from the ever awesome Project Gutenberg
Boys HAVE FUN! MAKE THINGS THAT Go
Get Popular Mechanics Famous BOY MECHANIC Library
This is it Fellows! Here’s what you want! You know it’s the fellow who can do things—make things that “work” and “GO”—that’s the kingpin in every school and neighborhood. Get the “Boy Mechanic” and enjoy that popularity yourself. These famous books give thousands of plans, kinks, and articles on everything the average boy wants to do and make for himself.
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From Pills to Penicillin
By Herb BailyDON’T EVER MAKE the mistake of longing for the good old days—at least not in medicine. If you were born 50 years ago, the chances are you’re alive today because you were born naturally strong and lucky. It isn’t likely that the medicine of that period did much to save you for medicine was just learning to be scientific, which is another way of saying effective.
If medical progress hadn’t advanced your life expectancy, last year you’d have been slated to die at the age of 49! In 1902 there were few diseases that could be cured; today there are few diseases that cannot be cured if treated in time.
Low-Cost Homemade Car Runs 40 Miles Per Gallon
With the frame and wheels of a 1934 Ford, a 12-horsepower four-cylinder water-cooled engine, a clutch, transmission and rear end from a junk yard, a former instructor at Dakota Wesleyan University built a unique automobile. The body of the car was made from scrap lumber, covered with hardboard and held together by two boxes of screws. Headlights, tail-lights, radiator grille and windshield were obtained at minimum prices. The hood ornament was the container for an airplane’s loop antenna and a glass dome for the top is from a refrigerator. The builder, Nelson Beck, devoted six weeks’ work and $76.68 to his project which has begun to repay him by running 40 miles to the gallon at an average speed of 55 miles per hour.
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