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With a Blade of LIGHT he slew the Greatest of all Demons ~ Darkeness
Burgess Battery Company
General Sales Office: ChicagoBurgess Flashlights & Batteries
CONCRETE MIXER HAS RUBBER-TIRED WHEELS
A new concrete mixer, now being offered for contractors’ use, is mounted on a rubber-tired two-wheel truck so that it can be easily and quickly moved from one job to another. Whereas the usual portable type of mixer cannot be hauled faster than about 10 miles an hour, this one will trail behind a light auto truck at a speed of 30 miles an hour. A leg, set on the ground when the mixer is in use, supports it in a level position. It travels noiselessly and without jarring, and is no hindrance to traffic.
Are you Driving a Pleasure Car or Death Trap?
One in every three U. S. cars needs brake adjustments. One in every nine is a potential killer. This story gives the lowdown on the menace of bad brakes and tells you how to avert accidents.
by CARL D. WEBB
TWO men in a heavy touring car were roaring down the Jack Rabbit trail in California. Faster and faster they sped as the dark night and the deserted road lulled the driver into a false sense of security. Suddenly, as he rounded a curve, he saw a dark shape ahead. Frantically he jammed on his brakes and jerked the steering wheel. A wailing scream from the tearing tires— then a terrific crash as the skidding car smashed broadside into the obstruction. The two men in the touring car probably did not live long enough to feel the searing heat of the flames which enveloped their car and the gasoline truck which they had hit.
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I suppose this would work if they didn’t have to talk…
Dry Ice Makes Breath Visible
MOTION picture directors can produce scenes in any climate by means of trick settings and clever mechanical devices. Critics have charged, however, that some snow scenes lacked realism because they lacked the usual phenomenon of breath becoming visible upon striking cold air.
Dr. Frank G. Nolan, Hollywood physician, has solved the problem. He has invented a device for motion picture actors that makes their breath visible in “frozen North” scenes taken in the sunshine of California. The device is similar to a dental plate and fits over the teeth of the actor.
The secret of the invention is that it enables the player to hold dry ice in the mouth without harmful results.
Night Club in Cave Whips Summer Heat
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, boasts a new night club said to be without equal anywhere in the world for novelty and comfort during torrid summer months. Called the “Mystic Caverns,” the club occupies a labyrinth of caves which form a natural refrigerator with a year round temperature of 48 degrees.
The subterranean chambers where the revelers disport themselves have their opening in the face of a towering sandstone cliff bordering the Mississippi. Once you step inside you are literally in the bowels of the earth, with solid sandstone walls all around you and 150 feet of solid sandrock overhead.
About eight degrees of heat make the atmosphere decidedly comfortable inside the caverns when the mercury is flirting with the hundred mark outdoors. In winter, 20 degrees of furnace heat convert the labyrinthine chambers into a cozy beer hall.
“VACUUM-TUBE” SIGNS YIELD LIGHT AT SMALL COST
“Vacuum-tube” signs, consisting of continuous glass tubing bent into lettering or numerals, the whole being lighted by either direct or alternating current at common voltages, are new advertising features. As many as three lines of script or number units may be arranged in one sign, which displays a deep-red or orange color when illuminated. The operating cost is negligible, as only from 8 to 10 watts are required for any length or number of units. No noticeable heat is radiated from the tubing, which is thus said to yield a “cold” light.
JETS LOOK FOR JOBS
WHAT we want,” the public-utilities official stated, “is an auxiliary engine that will help our construction trucks and trailers climb up into the mountains. The loaded vehicles weigh 33 tons and right now we grind along at six miles per hour. We want to get up those grades at 45 miles per hour.”
The Aerojet engineer thumbed his slide rule for a moment and grinned.
“We have just the thing,” he commented. “Five hundred horsepower in a package 18 inches square. How’s that? Turn the auxiliary power on at the foot of the grade and cruise along as fast as you want. Only trouble is, you can’t afford it. At $2.50 per gallon, fuel will cost about $1200 per trip.”
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Canine Stable Boy Helps Train Racer
High-strung, temperamental race horses often have mascots, whose playful companionship provides a diversion from the serious business of winning; turf events. Witness, for example, the friendship of Ba-ranca, a thoroughbred, and Flash, a pure-white dog. In the circle at the right, the trained mascot offers the racer a juicy carrot, and at left, he holds the halter and leads Baranca out for a light workout, at their Inglewood, Calif., home. Winner of his share of races, the horse could lead the dog a merry chase if he chose to set the pace instead of meekly obeying the “orders” of his affectionate canine trainer.
I’m not really sure how this is any more efficient than having an order window and a pickup counter. Though i’ll bet you’d get a lot less complaints if people had to write them out.
Tray on Trestle Serves at Drive-ln
DINE AT a new drive-in restaurant in Los Angeles and your food will come rolling out on a powered tray and stop at your car window. It’s the world’s first automatic “car-hop” and forerunner of others planned for California. The restaurant employs no car-hops, yet speeds service from 20 to 25 percent while saving 25 percent on labor costs, according to its owners. The patron drives into a stall and comes to a stop headed in toward the kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »
That’s a really nifty way to pump water!
CHINESE WINDMILL WATERS FARM
Adapting an Oriental idea for raising water for his own needs and to irrigate his fields, a California farmer has constructed the curious apparatus shown in the accompanying photographs. Power from a windmill, transmitted through gears, revolves a spiral-shaped tube of pipe open at both ends. The outside end dips into a water-filled ditch at each revolution. Water is thus picked up, and runs by gravity around the spiral to the hub as the wheel revolves. An opening in the hub dis-charges the water into a trough four feet above the level in the ditch, giving a sufficient lift for the irrigation purposes desired.
Nowadays that seems like quite a niche product to be advertising in a general audience publication like Scientific American, but in the 50′s people thought nuclear reactors were going to be everywhere.
Count on…Instrumentation engineering by Honeywell for the right nuclear installation control
The effectiveness and safety of control for nuclear installation depends not only on choosing the right instrumentation, but also in applying this instrumentation correctly to the-job.
From Honeywell, you can be sure of getting both. A staff of application engineers well versed in the technology and requirements of nuclear projects goes to work on your problems. Read the rest of this entry »
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