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Calling All Inventors

Got a new gadget? Rochester’s industries want to see it. They may even make it and market it for you.

By Alfred Eris

THERE’S a man in Rochester, N. Y., whose job it is to help you make a million dollars! His name is Harold S. Rand and he’s the Deputy Commissioner of Commerce for that city.

What’s the catch? Naturally, there’s a reason for it—but it’s certainly not a hidden reason. It’s simply part of a scheme to keep Rochester’s industries going at capacity.
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“Poor Man’s” Yacht

This floating dream-home will allow you to cruise the river in millionaire style.

By Rudy Arnold

HAVE YOU ever dreamed of cruising down the river in your own private yacht? If you have, now is the time to do it and enjoy the plushness of a modern dream-home complete with front and back yard.

Wesley H. Dyer’s “Dumbo” has made a low-cost family yacht a practical reality for the water-loving landlubber. Dyer, president of the Metal Products Company of Nashville, Tenn., named his original family yacht, shown on these pages, after Walt Disney’s flying elephant because his novel craft was big but surprisingly agile for its size. Read the rest of this entry »

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PEOPLE DON’T DIE -THEY COMMIT SUICIDE

BY BERNARR MACFADDEN

NATURAL deaths are rare. It looks as though John D. Rockefeller, Sr., will have a chance to die as nature intended. The last twenty-five or thirty years he has adhered rigidly to what we might call the laws of life. He has prolonged his life to the end that nature intended for all of us.

We have heard of the saying, “Digging your grave with your teeth,” which, in a way, refers to overeating.
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Midget Radio, left, is tuned in by an official guide at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London where it was one of 6,000 items in the “Britain Can Make It” Exhibition. It costs about $70.

Car Wheels Have Separate Motors

GERMAN automotive engineers have come out with a car which merits especial attention because of its unusual frontwheel drive. Each front wheel runs on its own axle and is powered by an individual motor. Far greater flexibility is thus provided especially on rough ground.

Another great advantage to this type of construction, engineers claim, is that a lower center of gravity is permitted, giving the car increased stability, speed, and an improved general appearance.

A clear idea of the construction of the bus will be gained from close inspection of the phantom view of the body below.

High Standards of Sauerkraut

What the Packers demand of their members:

PROOFS of the growing popularity of Sauerkraut, not only in America, but throughout the world, and of the recognition of its health giving and disease preventing qualities, pour in upon us daily at headquarters in Clyde, Ohio.”-— Roy Irons, Secretary-Treasurer, National Kraut Packers’ Association.

“Only a few years ago, as the winter months approached, it was our custom, to announce that the Sauerkraut season was coming and advise readers to lay in their supply of the wholesome, nutritive and economical food.
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Mi’s “Flying Saucer” Cruiser

This 21 “foot dream boat cruises at 50 mph with its triple 25-hp outboard motors and will carry four people comfortably on a sea-going vacation.

By David Lockhart

HAVE the biological processes of mating and multiplying forced you to give up that fast* outboard hydroplane of your palmier days for a slow family cruiser? Well, the Flying Saucer is one cruiser that can trim the pants off your old hydroplane—even loaded up to here with a wife and two youngsters—and bring back the thrills of your misspent youth.
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Hand-Powered Motor Boat Gives Real Watersport Thrills

A DIMINUTIVE motor boat powered not by a motor but by a hand crank operated by the swimmer has been devised by a clever home craftsman to provide watersport thrills at the bathing beach. The propeller of this odd craft is geared to a pulley which is in turn belted to the hand crank on the front, as illustrated in the drawing above. Buoyancy of the craft is increased by use of small pontoons fitted between the boards running lengthwise of the craft.

Candid Pickups

IF YOU don’t think amateur recording is tun, just ask Johnny Olsen. radio papa of “Ladies, Be Seated.” He’s been having a picnic with his home recorder for years. You don’t have to stay home with them, either.
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A new driving thrill for you!
A new value!

Studebaker’s great new V-8 Commander
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Machine Reads Your Head Bumps
YOUR character read while you wait is the amazing feat performed by a new machine called the “Robot Phrenologist.” A cap equipped with a battery of fingers fits over the head and sends electrical impulses to a recording device, shown below.

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Roll Not The Barrel

The recreation room in your home will be enhanced by this out of the ordinary, record changer cabinet.

By Loren Collins

THIS is an unusual project requiring a minimum of material and only the simplest hand tools. When completed it will not only be an attractive addition to your den or rumpus room but a serviceable record player, rivaling many large consoles in tonal quality. Using the unbreakable 45 rpm 7-in. disks that come in a wide choice of classical and popular selections, it will play ten selections, or from 30 to 50 minutes of music with one loading. Read the rest of this entry »