That seems like a really smart design. Of course swallowable cameras have gotten much better lately.
Electric Camera Photographs Walls of Human Stomach
A NEW wonder in photography that will take pictures of the innermost recesses of the human stomach has recently been developed by three doctors of the University of Vienna. This amazing device, shown on the right, takes eight pictures simultaneously.
The new camera is contained in a tube 1/2 inch in diameter and three inches long. The powerful light is operated by a battery with cables running down the throat to the filament, as shown in the drawing.
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Yes, that Arthur Murray.
I love the part where he explains that the reason people practice “petting” and “necking” is because they don’t know how to dance.
Try Dancing for that Inferiority Complex
The Author’s Own Experience and that of Others in Finding a Big Truth about Personality
By Arthur Murray
YESTERDAY a well-dressed gentleman of about forty stepped timidly out of the elevator into my reception room, caught sight of the attractive young lady behind the desk, hesitated, rolled his eyes around the room helplessly and then just in time ducked back into the elevator, never to be seen again.
Was it funny? No, it was pitiful. I was not surprised because I have seen the same thing happen dozens of times, and I understand it perfectly.
“You have no idea how close I came to being a pupil of yours two years ago,” said a professional man in the course of business recently.
“Just how close did you come?” I asked.
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If only the military analysts for the New York Times had shown the same moral conviction a few years ago:
Should we then, attack Russia now before she has the bomb—wage a “preventive” war against her—to protect ourselves against possible future atomic attack?
The answer is emphatically “No!”
The reasons are many.
First, such a course would be morally wrong. We would be putting ourselves in the same class as the Nazis we hanged in Germany. We cannot attack another nation merely because we are afraid.
Has Russia the Atom Bomb?
BY HANSON W. BALDWIN
Military Analyst, New York Times; Graduate, U.S. Naval Academy
DOES Russia have the atom bomb?
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotoff and his mouthpiece Vishinsky have stated that the Russians know the “secret” of the bomb.
They undoubtedly do, but that does not mean that Russia has been able to build a bomb. In my opinion they have not produced an atomic bomb to date of writing— but they will. Intelligence information—unofficial and inconclusive but indicative—says “no bomb yet.”
Our own experience in manufacturing and producing atomic bombs also supports this conclusion.
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There’s nothing sexier than a hot girl with a harpoon gun.
Queer Ways of Fishing with Lance and Gun
The hand must be as quick as the eye when you’re spearing fish. The young lady, above, has just stabbed a nice meal for herself, using a Japanese-type glass mask as a “window” for searching beneath the water
Goggle-fishing is a marine sport growing in popularity along Carolina and Florida coasts. Armed with lances, swimmers descend as far as twenty feet and “stalk” their game. Fisherman at left is starting down for a look at fish through Japanese-type mask, which protects both eyes and nose. Coming up with small fish on his lance, at right, is sportsman wearing goggles, each eyepiece being watertight
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This is a pretty optimistic article describing all of the steps and approaches to getting a computer to translate between two languages. Given that machine translation still sucks even though we have had 60 years of research and literally billions of times the computer capacity, I’d say it was a harder problem than they expected.
Translation by Machine
Its wide study has been stimulated by the need of scientists to keep abreast of publications in several languages. Although a mechanical translator still does not exist, encouraging progress lias been made
by William N. Locke
Suppose you became interested in working in a new field opening up in your line of work. Your first step would be to get all the background you could on the subject. To take a concrete example, let us say that the new field was the design of electrical switching networks. Looking through the literature, you would certainly find the pioneer 1938 paper by Claude Shannon on the theory of such networks, and a number of other, less important, papers. But how likely would you be to discover a Russian paper entitled And even if you saw listed somewhere an English translation of its title (”The Application of Boolean Matrix Algebra to the Analysis and Synthesis of Relay Contact Networks”), how could you know that this article in the Russian language was the most important contribution to the field next to Shannon’s original paper?
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This reminds me of some sort of jury-rigged post-apocalyptic setup you’d see in Mad Max.
USE LOCOMOTIVE TO RUN FACTORY
When two boilers of a Newark, Ohio, refinery had to be taken out of service simultaneously for repairs, the company engineer averted an expensive shut-down by using a locomotive to provide emergency steam. The engine, rented from a nearby railroad shop, was run on a siding beside the plant. Piston and cylinder head were removed, permitting the steam to be drawn off for use in the refinery. A temporary smokestack and a traveling-bucket coal loader completed the conversion. For two weeks, the locomotive ran the plant.
What an innovative way to ignore your child.
Baby Rides in a “Rumble Seat” When Daddy Goes Fishing
There was no use in staying home with the baby when his wife was away, a Miami man decided. So he rigged up a seat slung over his shoulders for the youngster, attached a sunshade, and now the baby goes along whenever daddy fishes.
