Where voices are powered by the sun
A new kind of telephone system developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories for rural areas is being operated experimentally by electric current derived from sunlight. Electric current is generated as sunlight falls on the Bell Solar Battery, which a lineman is seen adjusting in position.
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The fight on the doorstep
THIS WAR can’t be won on battlefields alone. One of the most critical campaigns of all must be waged right on the doorstep of every family in America.
This is the fight against higher prices and higher wages. It’s a fight that must be won… or victories in battle will be meaningless.
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Cold Weather Rubber
A rubber that doesn’t get hard and brittle at temperatures as low as sixty degrees below zero has recently been developed by the General Electric research laboratory. The new silicone rubber has any number of peace as well as wartime uses, due to its peculiar properties. The engineer shown above, clad in an electrically heated flying suit, demonstrates its flexibility in a laboratory testing chamber where the temperature is 60 degrees below zero.
rice cleans carbon
RICE is moving out of the kitchen and into the garage. Oldsmobile has developed a new device, the Head-On Carbon Blaster, which uses rice under air pressure to clean engine combustion chambers through their spark-plug openings. Read the rest of this entry »
PUTTING ON THE DOG
IT’S said that every dog has his day. Bobbie, an upper-crust Great Dane, really has it and is he barking it up! His master, Alden J. Senegal of Los Angeles, built Bobbie a plush ranch-style doghouse which has a TV antenna, chimney, doorbell, real doggy wallpaper, blue shag rug and— a swimming pool! But life isn’t all a forest of fire hydrants; Bobbie must sleep in his master’s house every night as a watchdog.
do you know this man?
Here’s his dossier: Graduate Engineer, in his thirties. Lost in a large engineering group. Married, has good paying job but no future. Could go far with right opportunity for creative engineering work.
If you know this man, tell him to communicate with J. M. Hollyday, Dept. S-3, The Glenn L. Martin Company, Baltimore 3, Maryland.
Subject: Exciting new long range developments at Martin which have created many exceptional opportunities in the engineering field on projects of the highest priority and promise.
P.S. He may be you.
BALTIMORE • MARYLAND
OLD WATER PIPE MADE OF WOOD
THIS relic of bygone days in Chicago was recently unearthed when workmen digging the excavation for a power plant came across a length of wood pipe. Made of logs drilled through the center and reinforced by iron bands, the bore was lined with copper sheeting rolled into a tube. John Walsh is shown above with some of the lengths and a piece of the copper tubing. The wooden pipe is no longer used, but the idea of non-corrosive copper for long life water pipe is present day practice.
PLASTIC HOME
HERE is the “Plexiglas Dream Suite,” designed to show peace-time uses for the clear plastic which has done such an efficient job decorating the noses and turrets of our fighting planes. The rooms are small in size for efficient air conditioning, but do away with that “closed in” feeling by the use of sweeping plastic walls with draw curtains for privacy. The four-color murals have a three-dimensional effect, achieved by superimposing four sheets of Plexiglas etched in separate colors and design elements. Bookshelves supply just enough indirect illumination. Drawers and shelves have plastic accessories.
CHECKERBOARD COMBINED WITH CIGARETTE CASE
THE NOVEL cigarette case shown below contains not only smoking materials, but also a complete checkerboard and men. The white and black pieces are small pegs which fit into holes in the squares to prevent them from being lost.
A PENNY’S WORTH
A penny’s not a lot of money, but you’ll be surprised at how much of some things it will buy.
A penny buys 20 pages of big city newspaper. providing several hours of reading material.
A penny’s worth of gas will drive a two-ton automobile with four people about 4,000 feet.
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Midget Streamliner goes record hunting. The Cooper 500-cc. racing car has gone to Paris to set some new times for the speed demons to shoot at. John Cooper admires his baby, left. Open hood, right, reveals driver Bill Aston behind the wheel.
Movies that Leap From the Screen!
By WESTON FARMER
A POOR boy from Budapest, who in his early childhood learned about the functions of the human eye in his struggle against defective vision, has invented a system whereby stereoscopic movies may be projected upon the screen and viewed by the audience without the use of the usual visors and colored screens!
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