Filling Station Has Giant Mirror

WHAT is said to be the largest outdoor mirror in America has been set up by a Pasadena, California, service station with the thought of flattering the vanity of auto owners, both male and female.

While gasoline is being shot into the tank the motorist faces a life size reflection of himself and his car in a 7 by 12 foot mirror mounted on the side of the station. As he makes the turn to drive out a full size side view of the car is obtained. A plate glass window was silvered to make the mirror. Read the rest of this entry »

Giant Vacuum Cleaner
Largest one ever assembled is this 196-pound jumbo made for exhibition purposes. It takes a bit of pushing, but works fine according to Henry Hoover.

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ATOM-BOMBER Carries 3 Jet Fighters

Meet the B-36. Its wing span is twice the distance of the Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kittyhawk. It’s 3 times as lethal as the B-29 and can hop to any spot on earth.

THE U. S. Air Force has a “Sunday punch” ready to slug any enemy who tries to start World War III with another Pearl Harbor.

It’s a sleek super-dreadnaught of the skies, the Consolidated Vultee B-36 long range bomber—and it’s ready today to exploit to the fullest the awesome power of the atomic bomb. Carrying its own fighter protection in its belly, it will serve, in the event of war, as the “throwing arm” for the most destructive force in history.
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New Way to Develop Your Form

Yes! Now you can fill out those ugly hollows —add firm, rounded flesh just where you need it—develop lovely shapeliness. Let me send you my easy method to try

Add Lovely Feminine Curves
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Things were pretty weird before closed circuit TV.

Telescopes and Mirror
give many eyes a close-up view of a delicate cataract operation which heretofore could be observed by only one or two. It happened in Doctors’ Hospital, L. A.

“SEA SLUG” Liner Floats on WORM DRIVE
COMBINING speed and comfort with modern streamline design, the “sea slug” liner employs an unusual means of propulsion. Instead of the screw propeller drive used on ocean ships, this craft is driven by a series of worm screw impellers.

These impellers also eliminate the common hull design. The center portion of the ship is hollowed out for the series of four worm screws. The sides of the hull float and with the hollow screws provide buoyancy for the liner. As speed of the ship increases, the hull rises, lowering its resistance in the water.
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Man-Made Lightning Bolt Harnessed to a Job—Cracking Walnuts

Nut packers have found that a 65,000-volt, 5,000-ampere jolt of electricity will take the shell off a walnut clean as a whistle. The kernels are undamaged, and production per worker is more than doubled.

The nuts are fed from 10,000-pound storage bins onto threaded rolls that carry them into a metal-shielded concrete building. This houses 18 cracking units (above left) in two banks of nine each. Read the rest of this entry »

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Glories of Mankind Told in Art-Glass Windows

OF all conveniences met with in everyday life, glass is one of most ancient in origin. Authorities differ regarding its- beginning, but it is said to have been made by the Egyptians almost 8,000 years ago. And the coloring of it can be traced as far back as the remote eras of Chinese civilization.

Colored glass was first employed to make imitations of the brightly hued gems, such as rubies, sapphires, and emeralds with which the ancient nobles decked themselves and their horses in barbaric splendor. It was not until demand for the material to be used in flat subjects was born that it was rolled into sheets.
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