Engineer Encases Bodies in Metal

THROUGH a carefully guarded secret process, Marcus D. Rynkofs, Los Angeles electroplating engineer, is able to encase any body in metal so closely fitted that every feature of the subject is reproduced. The process, superior to any developed by the Egyptians, will preserve a body forever, sealing it in an air tight chamber against the ravages of time.

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She Shoots Babies!

CONSTANCE BANNISTER is famous for her pictures of babies. You’ve seen them often in the magazine ads.

Now, if you’ve ever attempted to take a photograph of a baby, you know how difficult it is to get cooperation from the darling little diapered despot. Babies have wills of their own and it’s an art to get them in the mood.
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FRIGOMAT cools liquid as it is pumped from bottle into glass. The plastic German device fits any type beverage bottle. It was unveiled at Frankfurt International Fair.

Bus Rider Wears Gas Mask
LEADING a campaign to impress local bus operators with the need for some means of eliminating the monoxide fumes that produce headaches and cause passengers to suffer attacks of nausea, B. Palmer Davidson, of Montclair, N. J., wears a gas mask when commuting to his office. The mask is a type used by employees in industrial plants.

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How to Invent and Sell Money-Making Premiums

You can hit the jackpot with a giveaway gimmick if it’s simple, clever and appeals to the public.

By Bob Willett

SEVERAL months ago a salesman in Stamford, Conn., stepped up to the 15th tee of his favorite golf course and raised his driver. As he did, a business card fell from his shirt pocket and landed in a leaning position against his tee. Connecting with both ball and card, he was surprised to see the ball soar straight down the fairway—his first decent drive that day.

Experimenting later, he theorized that the card absorbed enough misdirected force to prevent hooking or ¦ slicing, then proved this conclusively with a flexible plastic tee of his own design. This answer to a divot-digger’s dream will soon be widely distributed as a giveaway gimmick and should prove to be one of the most popular products in the 104-year history of premium promotions.
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Damn! That’s a cool looking Beach Buggy.

BEACH BUGGY with the jaunty look is for vacation fun, another design by the imaginative Giovanni Michelotti. It is Vignale-built on Fiat Multipla chassis.

Pulley System Speeds Data
TO SPEED written messages and other data between buildings at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Dr. Harry Rowe Mimno, assistant professor of physics, developed a mechanical carrier system operated by a motor driven rope-and-pulley.

Messages are placed in an aluminum cylinder and carried between buildings by the motivated rope-and-pulley system. Upon reaching its destination, the cylinder causes a red light to flash, informing office personnel that message is waiting.

How to LOOK YOUNG AS A GIRL

Bring back youth to your face

• Here is a proven method that removes marks of age and keeps them from returning . . . Kathryn Murray’s 5-minute Facial Exercises, Used by 40,000 women.

Only 5 Minutes a Day
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I’m not sure this would actually help you learn how to fly, but I’ll bet it would be really fun for kids. Someone should make one of these now and hook it up to a flight sim.

Students Now “Fly” without Leaving Ground

ALL the sensations of looping the loop. going into a tail spin, and flying blind through fog are afforded students of the Array Air Corps at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, by an ingenious “primer plane” that never leaves the ground. A miniature fuselage, fitted with a propeller, ailerons, elevators, and rudder, is attached to an electrically-operated framework, and in the cockpit a prospective pilot does his first “flying” in safety.
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TALKIE, PHONOGRAPH, RADIO, ALL IN ONE

A new “home talkie” device houses in one cabinet a projector for standard sixteen-millimeter film, a phonograph for the sound accompaniment or for ordinary records, and a radio receiver. Words or music accompanying the pictures are played by sixteen-inch disks, synchronized with the film. The hinged top of the cabinet contains the projecting screen.

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FLIGHT TO THE STARS ON SUN POWER

Designed for travel from earth satellite to the far reaches off outer space, this amazing “solar butterfly” uses an electrical jet exhaust.

By Frank Tinsley

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S recent announcement of a federally-sponsored earth satellite project tears aside the curtain of secrecy that has long veiled our space travel research. To be launched sometime in 1957-58, Ike’s “cosmic basketball” will rocket to an orbit some two or three hundred miles above the earth’s surface and there circle the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of 18,000 mph. This tiny artificial moon, about two feet in diameter and weighing around 100 pounds, is the first of our space targets for tomorrow.
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Bathing Suits Made Of Cork
BATHING suits made of cork have become the latest fad on the beaches of Italy. Designed in the most modern styles, the cork suits are not only attractive in appearance, but they also give buoyancy to the swimmer.