The models are nice, but I love the hat.
Junior Styles Tomorrow’s Cars
Watch out, you professional car designers—these up and coming ‘teen agers will have your jobs!
THE automobile of tomorrow should have a rear engine, better visibility and smooth and unbroken body lines—so think the youthful winners in the 1946 competition of the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild.
The lads seem to be on the beam. Look at their models!
David W. Whitman chiseled and filed his car out of pine. Little Virgil M. Exner, only 13, turned out a job nearly the equal of a professional designer’s, the experts say. Virgil is the son of the chief designer for the Studebaker Corp., and seems to have inherited his father’s talents. In a well-equipped workshop, with side trips to a nearby dime store, he made a beautiful plaster of Paris rear-engine model with radiator intakes along the front edges of the rear fenders. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, kill a snake in only eight and a half minutes! Of course this would only really work on animals that aren’t allowed to move. It seems like stepping on the snake would have been more effective.
Death Ray Effective On Snakes
A DEATH ray which proved its effectiveness before a San Francisco jury has been developed by Henry Fleur, Pacific Coast inventor. The apparatus which employs a light beam impregnated with infra-red rays successfully killed a snake in 8-1/2 minutes. A lizard was put to death in less than 6 minutes with only 30 seconds required to kill certain termites. Mounted on an adjustable tripod, ray can be aimed at objects in the same manner as a searchlight. The beam transmits a stream of high frequency vibrations.
This is pretty awesome. Anyone know if it’s still around?
Periscope House
YOU walk across the green-lawned, palm-hemmed park overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, and climb the stairs to the little house in the picture above. Your party gathers around a circular rail in the center, the door is closed and at first all is darkness.
Then, slowly and as if by magic, the scene you left outdoors a few minutes before appears on the revolvable table in front of you. Colors are perfectly natural. Strollers in the park move about, quite oblivious to their observers.
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That’s pretty scary looking.
CAP AND MASK IN ONE PROTECTS DIVER’S EYES
Bathing fashions in the course of centuries have seen many novelties, but it remained for a Los Angeles, Calif., designer to think of this new headgear, which is a combination cap and face mask in one.
When the first wearer recently appeared on the Los Angeles beach, the startling, round eyeholes of the mask might have suggested to a fanciful observer the appearance of a feminine Martian or a lady robot. Despite its oddity, the mask serves the practical purpose of protecting the eyes and ears in diving. Celluloid eyepieces keep out the water. The lower portion of the mask covers half the swimmer’s face, leaving the ‘ nose and mouth uncovered. It may be turned up when not needed.
How can you not love an article with quotes like this:
“By the time you get down near Absolute Zero everything in the world is frozen harder than a pawnbroker’s heart…”
When this article was written the record low temperature achieved by scientists was .0015 K. The current record is 0.00000000045 K.
Actually things get MUCH weirder near absolute zero then they thought at the time. Check out these links for more.
So You Think THIS Is Cold?
Teeth chattering? Fingers numb? Well it’s warm compared to what the lab boys call Absolute Zero.
By Lawrence Sanders
“Tis IS BITTER cold and I am sick at heart,” quoth Hamlet. And right now most citizens are hunching along, swaddled to the ears against the cold and muttering, “You said a mouthful, Bard.”
Is it cold enough for you?
As a matter of fact, it probably is cold enough for you—whether you live in Weeping Water, Neb. or Hiram, Ga. One man’s heat wave is another man’s cold snap and a Key Wester can be just as uncomfortable at 40° F as a Bald Eagle, Minn, resident when the mercury goofs off to—40 °F.
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In 1930 airplanes of the 94th Pursuit Squadron were flying around with little swastikas on the side of their planes. (second page, second picture) I wonder how long that lasted.
Romance of Plane Insignia Dates from World War Days
DURING the World war the various fighting squadrons of the Air Service adopted the policy of painting insignia on their airplanes.. These insignia reflected the experiences of the pilots or of the squadron in war, or perhaps had no significance other than that which the original design itself intended to convey. The squadrons of the United States Air Corps have, as far as possible, continued in peace the same insignia as were used during the World war.
Insignia, besides promoting an esprit de corps provides a means of identifying the planes of a particular squadron. At the Air Corps maneuvers held at Mather Field, California, this spring, squadrons were assembled from all parts of the United States; Pursuit from San Diego and Detroit; Attack from Galveston; Bombardment from Langley, Va., and Observation from San Francisco. The insignia of the various units, to those who were not abroad in 1917-18, represented considerable imagination and initiative in their preparation, but to those who served in Air Units during the war they awoke memories of the past and brought forth many reminiscences.
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