Automatic Dialing Makes Phone Calls Easy

Operation of the dial telephone is made easier by an automatic unit introduced in London. The numbers which the subscriber calls most frequently are printed on a list on top of the device. These numbers are conveyed by notches on a disk inside the machine to the automatic dialing unit. To telephone, the subscriber sets a pointer to the name of the person he wishes to call and presses a lever. The machine does the rest.

That is one spiffy looking trophy.

Radio Amateur Gets Award For Distinguished Service

IN RECOGNITION of distinguished service rendered during the January, 1937, Ohio River flood emergency when he co-operated with civil and military authorities in the transmission of official communications for more than 40 hours without sleep, Robert T. Anderson, of Harrisburg, Ill., was recently awarded the William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for 1937. In the photo above, Anderson (left) is shown receiving the trophy from its donor, William S. Paley, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Newsboys Wear Neon Signs

NEWSBOYS who sell the Los Angeles Times are supplied with small neon electric signs having the word “TIMES” in capital letters. The signs, worn at night, stand out in traffic and protect the boys against possible accidents from passing autos. The signs were designed by A. A. Allen, an electrical engineer, and will burn steadily for 48 hours without changing the dry cell battery. These signs, besides protecting boys, attract pedestrians and increase sales.

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Fluid “Transistor” Circuits

May Rival Electronics

Here’s the complete story on amplifiers that use liquids or gases instead of electricity. They may soon control such things as dishwashers, power tools and computers

By S. DAVID PURSGLOVE

INSTEAD of vacuum tubes and transistors, the basic units of tomorrow’s automatic appliances and automated industries might well be small blocks of metal, plastic or ceramics with tiny passageways in them.

Development of the blocks—pure fluid amplifiers—was announced recently by the Army’s Diamond Ordnance Fuze Lab., Washington, D. C.
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Of course ten years later John Wayne was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to have a lung removed.

John Wayne… a Camel fan goin’ on 24 years!

TALK TO Camel smokers like John Wayne, popular Hollywood star, and you’ll quickly see why Camels keep increasing their lead over the next brand! Clearly, nothing matches Camels’ blend of costly tobaccos for genuine mildness and specially-rich flavor! If you smoke for the pure pleasure of smoking, try Camels for 30 days. See what you’ve been missing!
Camels agree with more people than any other cigarette!

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Building and Riding a Unicycle

Learning to ride this fugitive from the circus is becoming an increasingly popular modern day exercise

By HAROLD P. SMITH

A USED or even wrecked 20 or 24-in. bicycle will supply most of the major parts needed to make a unicycle, and you can build it for one-third the cost of a new one.

We chose 24-in. bikes for parts to build the unicycles shown in Fig. 1. If you are picking up a used or wrecked bike for parts, select one with a good front wheel fork and rear wheel. And, if possible, one having a New Departure Model D or Bendix 13 coaster brake because these types have rear wheel hubs that are identical in size and shape at both ends, a feature that simplifies the making of the axle adapters.
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Planes Parked on Noses Save Space
Fifteen planes can be parked in the space ordinarily filled by five or six, by the use of the novel stacking method pictured above, employed in a hangar at the municipal airport at East Boston, Mass. Plane wheels are blocked and each craft is balanced on its nose with a wooden support protecting the propeller.

Setting aside the ridiculously stereotyped language of the porter, a laxative to cure a cold? Really?

She caught cold on her honeymoon
BRIDE: Wouldn’t you know? I’m catching cold! Guess I’ll arrive saying, “Califordia, here I cub.”

GROOM: What you need — pronto — is a laxative and something to help counteract acidity. If only…

PORTER: Pahdon me, fo’ overhearin’ yo’, but Sal Hepatica does BOTH dose things. It’s a min’ral salt laxative and it helps Nature counteract acidity, too. Las’ trip a doctah tole me.

GROOM: Well, honey, here’s California. Got everything?

BRIDE: Everything except that cold. Lets tip that porter double for telling us about Sal Hepatica. Lucky for me he had Sal Hepatica on board!

A COLD COMING? DO 2 THINGS:
1. Cleanse the intestinal tract.
2. Help Nature counteract acidity.
Sal Hepatica does BOTH!

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How Dangerous Is Your Job?

By JESSE F. GELDERS

HOW dangerous is your job? What are your chances of being killed, or temporarily or permanently disabled? More than they would be at other work—or less?

Those are broad questions, but I found an accident-insurance company ready to give amazingly definite answers. And the answers were full of surprises.

A prison warden faces less danger than a diamond cutter, I learned. An ambulance driver’s job is as safe as a garage mechanic’s. Driving a heavy truck is riskier than either; it’s as dangerous as moving buildings!
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Two-Minute Car Washer

When a car emerges, shiny and clean, from this tunnel of tubes, it has spent no more time in getting a bath than it would in getting its gas tank filled. Air from the pipes evaporates all moisture after the car has passed through a stall (extreme right) where it had a onceover with soft, water-flushed brushes. Commerce Pattern Foundry and Machine Co. manufactures the automatic washer.

This is weird ad for a weird dictionary. It only has “hundreds of questions” and one of them is about butterflies? It seems like it should be called Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and trivia book.

“Mother, why don’t Butterflies fly around the lamp, as Moths do?”

“Our New Merriam-Webster gives this interesting reason:”

“The moils are usually nocturnal or crepuscular (night-flying or twilight’ flying). But the butterflies are diurnal (daylight-Hying). Accordingly, butterflies are not abroad at night, and are not attracted by lamps.”
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Handy Aids for Homemakers

INVISIBLE GAS HEATER
Looking like the heat register of a hot air furnace, the gas heater shown at left and above, is suspended in a metal box beneath the floor. The burner, radiator, and air ducts are in this box and only the grating, through which the heat escapes into the room, is seen

CUTTER OPENS PAPER CARTONS
Discarded razor blades, set in an oak handle, which is provided with a guiding flange for cutting along the top of a carton, make a knife with which paper containers are readily opened
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