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Life Aboard a Space Ship

Eating, washing and sleeping will be tough problems for passengers on the first flights to outer space.

By Willy Ley, World-Famed Rocket Authority

NEVER doze off without tying yourself down or you’ll crack your head on something. If you feel a sneeze coming, hang on to something or you’ll slam into the bulkhead. Don’t try to pour from a bottle and don’t smoke without turning up the air conditioner.” This advice may well be given to a space cadet in about 1980 by an experienced hand. All of it refers to the little tricks men will have to learn if they want to survive a trip through space and be reasonably comfortable while doing so. Reasonably comfortable; real comfort is not likely to come to the space lanes for many years.
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Firemen Invent New Hose Game

Streams of water from fire hoses, and a ball sliding freely along an overhead wire, recently provided the implements for a novel game played by firemen at Chicago, Ill. Officially, the object of the game was to push the ball over the opponents’ goal line, although to spectators it appeared as if it was primarily to drench the opponents. The players appropriately named their strenuous sport “fireball.”

Is there a radio on that bike? I could hardly tell. It’s so small!

A Radio on Your Bicycle Makes Riding a Pleasure Trip

PUT a radio on your bicycle and enjoy your favorite programs while riding. The job is easily done. The full equipment is shown in the picture on the right. Attach a small radio set to a board fastened to the handle bars of the bicycle. To construct the antenna supports use bus bar or heavy wire fixed to the top of the radio set. The antenna and lead-in wire are plainly visible in the photograph. The battery supply is attached to the frame of the bicycle.

The radio equipped bicycle made its appearance in Hollywood where movie stars have made a fad of bicycle riding.

I can think of a much better way to put a smile on your husband’s face that doesn’t even involve a trip to the store.

How would you like to put this smile on your husbands face?

WE’LL LET YOU IN ON A SECRET…

If you want to change grouches to grins — give that man of yours Del Monte Pineapple Juice. Cater to his fondness for flavor.

Men like the rich, ripe taste of this juice — the definite pineapple flavor it has. They like its freshness—the bracing refreshment it always brings.
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RCA announces revolutionary NEW Electron Microscopes

Now—from RCA, pioneer and world leader in electronic research, come two great new electron microscopes. The EMU-3A with both 50,000 and 100,000 volt accelerating potential is destined to be recognized as perfection in electron microscopy —the ideal tool for advanced research requiring highest resolution, maximum magnification and critical control. The EML-1A, a 50,000 volt instrument, has every important feature needed for peak performance in a wide range of research and control functions.
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Planting the Stars and Stripes in the Antarctic

By ALDEN P. ARMAGNAC

CRUNCHING snow and ice beneath ten-foot pneumatic tires, throbbing with the combined 400 horsepower of its mighty Diesel engines, a fifty-five-foot juggernaut with a swift airplane poised on its broad back soon will roll into polar lands of mystery. As fantastic a land craft as the strangest creations of fiction, this “snow cruiser” heads an array of scientific innovations that will serve the forthcoming U. S. Government expedition to Antarctica and the South Pole.
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Careful—Tojo Knows Trees Don’t Smoke!

WEARING mottled green suits and head-nets, these snipers shown at left step out of character as part of the scenery for a quick smoke during Army maneuvers. Primarily designed for use in forest and jungle country, suits like these enable men to fade almost completely into any leafy background, move about in the shelter of invisibility; the head-nets are for holding twigs or leaves. Note how legs of soldier at left blend in with foliage.

“Let me show you how to make all these beautiful objects of art, giftwares, and costume jewelry at home in spare time”

For PLEASURE or PROFIT!

Make as much as $5 for one hour’s work

Yes, I’ll send this book to you free. It tells all about one of the most astonishing discoveries of recent years. Shows how 56c worth of material can be turned into a $5.00 profit. Shows how to make “something from nothing.” A handful of twigs is transformed into a gorgeous coral-like necklace — a stunning dresser-box is made from a penny’s worth of rice and a few navy beans — a metal-like lapel pin from a live leaf. Read the rest of this entry »

Midget Organ Has Full Range

Weighing only 125 pounds, a diminutive electric organ has recently been completed by Louis Weir, of Boston, Mass. Tiny whirling wheels generate the fundamental notes, while the variations and harmonics of a full-size organ are produced by an intricate combination of switches and stops. An amplifier swells the volume of the instrument from a faint whisper to a resounding crescendo.

I wonder how accurate this was at predicting the weather. I would think that a lot of things would create static that aren’t harbingers of storm clouds.

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Radio Static Used as Weather Warning

Wireless Fan’s Jinx Harnessed by Power Company to Tell in Advance When Rain Clouds Will Increase Demand for Lights

STATIC electricity, the bugbear of the radio fan, has been harnessed in a big electric-light plant to give automatic warning, hours in advance, of an approaching storm whose dark rain clouds will cause a sudden demand for an enormously increased volume of current.
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Forget the kids, I want a set of these!

Child Size Blocks Make Bridges

RECENTLY brought on the market by a California woodworking company is a set of child-size building blocks which can be used outdoors to make doll houses, child-size bridges, railways and other childishly imaginative structures. The set consists of blocks about four by six inches which are used in conjunction with flat boards that dovetail in proper relation to each other so that every imaginable kind of furniture and dwelling can be erected. No fastenings other than the lock joints are used. Picture below illustrates what can be done in the way of building bridges.

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The Mysterious Submarine

By F. D. BURKE

THE interesting little toy described in this article will, when placed in water, automatically dive and come to the surface again, repeating this performance, on an average, once a minute over a long period of time. It not only makes a very good toy for a boy but can be used also for advertising purposes. Placed in a glass tank and displayed in a show window, its actions will attract the attention and interest of passers-by, who will stop to wonder how it operates.
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