Cellophane Blanket for Sun Tans
CALIFORNIA sun bathers are now getting their tans “wrapped in cellophane.” A specially dyed cellophane blanket, shown in use in the photo below, prevents the sun from burning or blistering the skin, but allows the ultra-violet rays to give it a healthy tan. The new “tanner” is large enough to cover the body, and when carried may be rolled up into a small cylindrical bundle.
BEACH SEAT ROLLS UP FOR CARRYING
Weighing only thirty-nine ounces, a combined seat and back rest recently placed on the market rolls up compactly for carrying. The legless chair is made of thin wooden slats fastened together with wide strands of heavy khaki webbing that produce a flexible and yielding surface. Two canvas supports keep the back and seat at right angles when it is in use. The seat can be used in canoes as well as on the beach.
Women Invade the Home Workshop
ONCE a hobby with an appeal only for men, the home workshop now is attracting an increasingly large number of women. In St. Joseph, Mich., for example, women form an active part of the membership in the St. Joseph Homework-shop Club. Under the supervision of B. L. Van Lente, of the local Y.W.C.A., they undertake all sorts of ambitious projects, and in some cases are more proficient than the men members.
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Gyro Wheel Is Novel “Boat”
A NOVEL aquatic gyro wheel by means of which he propels himself over the water by rolling over and over has been constructed by H. Schulze, of Hanover, Germany. The wheel is built of wood and light metal.
TABLE FITS YOUR AUTO
Handy for light repasts, a new table may be installed in the back of the car simply by inserting four screw eyes around the sides of the interior. Adjustable supporting straps are then easily clipped on or detached. They hold the table at any desired height. The top is always level, as is shown in photo above.
YOU WANT STEADY NERVES when you’re flying Uncle Sam’s bombers across the ocean
GERMANS OR JAPS, storms or ice… you’ve got to be ready for anything when you’re flying the big bombers across the ocean. You bet you want steady nerves. These two veterans above are Camel smokers. (Names censored by Bomber Ferry Command.) The captain (nearest camera), a Tennessean, says: “I stick to Camels.”
STEADY SMOKERS STICK TO CAMLES
There’s LESS NICOTINE in the smoke
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Beautifier Treats the Whole Body
Head-to-toe beauty treatments are administered by the telescoping electric cabinet shown in use at the right. With all but her head inside of the cabinet, the beauty-shop patron is given a vapor bath and subjected to a flood of infra-red rays from interior lamps at the same time. The cabinet can be made smaller to give local treatments to any part of the body, while exposed parts are being massaged by a beauty-shop attendant.
Fate of UNIVERSE May Be Told in Cosmic Ray Origin
by JAY EARLE MILLER
Where in the universe does the mysterious cosmic ray originate? Science is now conducting extensive research to solve that mystery, for the answer may disclose the destiny of the earth we live on.
ON MOUNTAIN tops in Hawaii, Alaska, Peru and at other isolated points around the world—eighteen stations in all—an answer is being sought this summer to the most perplexing question in modern science —what is a cosmic ray?
First discovered nearly thirty years ago, and made famous in 1925 when Dr. Millikan of California Tech confirmed their existence, and, much to his embarrassment, the press named them “Millikan’s rays,” the cosmic emanation continues to be the baffling enigma on which scientists throughout the world are divided.
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It’s hard to imagine a hospital without a P.A. system.
Loudspeakers Page Hospital Doctors
No time is lost in calling any particular physician in one of New York’s big hospitals, where a new paging system has just been installed. When a telephone call for a doctor is received at the central switchboard, it is referred to an operator who, finding the doctor is in the hospital, repeats his name before a microphone. Eighty-five loudspeakers in the corridors and ante-rooms of the hospital broadcast the message. Wherever he is, the doctor takes the call at the nearest telephone. Western Electric engineers, who installed the system, provided controls for adjusting the volume of the loudspeakers.
Pedaling Peddler Sharpens Scissors
Both transportation and power supply for his work are furnished by the bicycle of the British scissors grinder pictured at the left. For the rear wheel of the bicycle that rolls this sharp-witted grinder from house to house in search of jobs also whirls the grinding wheels on a shaft mounted on the handlebars. A belt connects shaft and rear wheel.
Distorting Lens Animates Cartoons
HAVE you ever stretched the drawings on a rubber apron to make them take various shapes and proportions? Or blown up a balloon on which was a design and watched it grow more and more distorted?
This same effect is achieved from a drawing by means of distorting lenses in a new projection machine, shown above, recently invented by Maurice E. Morris, Ogden, Utah. When turning the crank, which revolves the lenses, the object is made to appear in various animated shapes due to the action of convex and concave mirrors.
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Baby-Feeding Gadgets Form Odd Collection
RANGING from crude clay cups used by the “mound builders” to the latest sanitary nursing bottle, baby-feeding gadgets collected as a hobby by Dr. D. Edward Overton, of Garden City, N.Y., record 500 years of history. Among the fifty or more items in Dr. Overton’s collection are early nursing bottles with nipples of ivory, tin, whalebone, and glass. Some of the glass bottles are shaped like human heads. Others, resembling powderhorns, were produced by pioneers from cow horns by tying a piece of thin leather over the small end to form the nipple. Whale-oil wicks in the lower compartment of one “two-story” metal feeder made it possible to heat the milk contained in the upper section.
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