And they look pretty spiffy too!
Quickly Donned Plastic Coveralls Protect Dress Clothes from Grease
Vinyl-plastic coveralls that don’t let grease penetrate to clothes beneath are ideally suited for the home mechanic. Quickly slipped on, zipped up the front and belted, the coveralls protect dress clothes from all dirt and stains. The material is light, strong and impervious to chemicals.
Pendulums Draw Novel Designs
INTRICATE geometrical designs, many of striking beauty, are produced by a curious instrument constructed by Milan Fiske, junior student at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., and known as a precision harmonograph. The unusual device, which its youthful builder believes may be the only one of its kind in the country operating on similar principles, aids in the mathematical study of compound harmonic motions. Read the rest of this entry »
In 2000 Popular Mechanics had an article about a guy who was riding an brand new, amazingly light 11.3 lb bike, so I’m going to call shenanigans on the 9 pounder on the second page.
New on the Road
Engine Rests Crooked in this Mercedes Benz, a top candidate to squash the track record at Indianapolis this year. Its in-line connection to an off-center rear axle assembly adds power and gives extreme underslinging.
Squirming Irma is not the girl in the picture (who is Randee Sanford and always sits quietly) but a vigorous gadget for testing Ford springs and upholstery. It acts like a 135-pound woman squirming 11 complete squirms a minute.
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I’ve always wondered how those worked!
Bag Inside a Can
New kind of pressurized package keeps product and propellant separate You’ve probably used hundreds of aerosol cans to dispense everything from shaving foams to vermouth with astonishing ease.But so far, these pressurized cans have only been able to dish out sprays and foams. Now science has perfected a new type of pressurized package that will let you dispense more viscous substances, like gels, greases, and caulks, with aerosol convenience.
A new shaving preparation called Edge, by Johnson Wax, is one of the first products to be packaged in this second-generation pressurized can. Unlike other whisker-wilters, which emerge as foam, Edge oozes out as a gel—but foams into lather on your face.
What keeps Edge a pressurized gel? It is stored in a plastic bag within the can and thus separate from the propellant, whereas in aerosols it is dissolved. The propellant pressurizes the bag to squeeze out its contents. And the bag folds up until all the contents are gone.
I’m sure that a panicked drowning person is going to be A-OK with someone tying a big life preserver around their neck. I know that when I’m afraid of suffocating the first thing I want to do is constrict my airflow.
LIFE PRESERVER FITS NECK
A LIFE PRESERVER of new design, carried on the back of a life guard, aids in rough-water rescues. When tied around the neck of a swimmer in distress, it buoys him up while being towed, or keeps him afloat until additional aid arrives. The device is effective in saving a bather who handicaps his rescuer by struggling. The illustrations show the preserver in use, and the manner in which it is conveniently worn by a beach guard while on duty.
Winged Rail Car Rides on Air
CAPTIVE airplanes with clipped wings would hurtle across country at more than six miles a minute, in a “flying-railway” system proposed by a European engineer. His scheme calls for a giant new type of streamline passenger car, having stubby wing surfaces and a body like the fuselage of an airplane. At low speeds, as in starting and stopping, the vehicle rolls along standard rails on flanged wheels at front and rear. Read the rest of this entry »
Hands Up!
to hold your booksCash in on personalized book ends. Cast in a flexible mold from a master pattern of a human hand and finished in bronze, they bring a handsome spare-time profit
By Thomas A. Dickinson
LIKE THE BRONZING of baby shoes, here’s an idea that can be turned into a profitable spare-time business — casting book ends from human hands. But whether it’s done for profit or just for fun, it costs little and your friends are sure to be intrigued by a life-size reproduction of their own hands, supporting their favorite books.
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Laundry Washer Run By Air
A LAUNDRY washing machine, which is operated by hooking up to the air hose of a vacuum cleaner, has been invented by a Swedish engineer. The machine consists of a rubber tub fitted with a turning arm which agitates the water in the tub when activated by the air blast of the vacuum cleaner.
I have heard of women having their clitoris removed, but it is usually referred to as “genital mutilation” and is imposed upon women against their will. Do women still have their clitoris voluntarily removed because they think it is “unsightly”? Would a doctor actually perform that surgery?
“Female Penis”
A distinguished researcher explains the role and function of the clitoris.By John Money, Ph.D.
Dr. Money is Associate Professor of Medical Psychology and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. He is supported in research by Grants #M-01557 and #K3-MH-18635 from the National Institute of Mental Health, United States Public Health Seervice.
Do you have your own name for the clitoris? Most people have.
The clitoris has sometimes been referred to as the “female penis.” It is one part of the sexual anatomy for which there is no well-known American popular or slang word. Not enough people have heard the expression, “the man in the boat,” for that expression to be useful when a doctor wants to explain what he means by the medical word, clitoris.
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Sick Python Fed With Special Rubber Hose
WHEN the throat muscles of a 22-1/2 -foot python in the St. Louis, Mo., zoo became paralyzed recently, it became necessary for the zoo officials to use force-feeding methods to keep the reptile alive. The feeding equipment developed for the job consists of a five-foot length of special rubber hose fitted with a removable plunger. Ground rabbit meat is fed into the hose and is forced into the snake’s stomach by means of the plunger.
This is kind of sad. It almost warrants it’s own unicorn chaser.
BULL WITH SINGLE HORN IS MODERN UNICORN
What might be called a modern unicorn has been produced by Dr. W. F. Dove, University of Maine biologist. From a day-old bull calf, Dr. Dove removed the two small knots of tissue which normally develop into horns. These horn buds he transplanted in the center of the bull’s forehead, thereby inducing the growth of a single massive horn. The bull, now nearly three years old, has developed much of the proud bearing ascribed to the mythical unicorn.
VOODOO DO-IT-YOURSELF
IF YOU know somebody who always beats you at croquet or who likes to swat you on the head and call you, “Old aardvark”—and who doesn’t know someone like that?— then what you need is a voodoo kit. With this you’ll spend many happy hours sticking needles into a little doll and pretending it’s your playmate. Voodoo is West Indian for black magic, which is the art of inflicting pain, sickness, death and bad luck by remote control. Read the rest of this entry »
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