Five-Story Steel Ball Makes Novel Hospital

RESEMBLING a strange machine from another planet, a huge steel ball standing five stories high is being erected at Cleveland, Ohio, so that persons suffering from diabetes may be given treatment under ideal conditions.

In the strange spherical “health hotel,” patients will live constantly in an atmosphere of high oxygen content, maintained at a pressure of 30 pounds per square inch, twice that of the normal atmosphere.

There are five floors inside the tank. An elevator in the center of the tank connects the different levels. Each of the private rooms is furnished like that in a modern hotel. Light enters through windows shaped like portholes to resist the pressure.

The treatment tank was designed in the shape of a ball so that air-tight seams could be secured more easily.

Air under 30 pounds pressure will be maintained, and the temperature and humidity will be carefully regulated. A large refrigerating plant has been built for cooling air as it leaves the compressors, and a drying plant will remove excess moisture.

Huge Pineapple Water Tank
FASHIONED after a huge, pineapple, a water tank on the roof of a large Hawaiian cannery is the cause of much comment by visitors to Honolulu. Visible from all parts of the city the pineapple looks as natural as the actual fruit. Supported on a tall steel tower the tank measures twenty-four feet in diameter and sixty feet high.

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Faking Movies Scenes

by DOUGLAS GRAY

TRICKS by which the movie director fakes many of his effects are interestingly explained in this article, written by a man who has been a cameraman and who is well versed in the tricks of the trade.

SEEING is believing—unless you happen to see it in the movies! The next time you step into your favorite movie theater to see some million dollar production, don’t stop to marvel at the luxurious palaces and castles which you see on the silver screen, because the chances are a hundred to one that they didn’t exist at all— except as a thin film of paint which fooled the gullible camera lens so completely that the innocent thing didn’t even suspect it was being made fun of! Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone wants a girl who’s been frigidized.

“Frigidine” is New Beauty Treatment for Women

AS A MECHANICAL aid to beauty, the National Beauty and Barbers Supply Dealers Association introduced in a recent convention a new type of light treatment which emits a blue actinic light called “Frigidine.”

At present it is estimated that American women pay $3,472 every second to heighten their beauty through the use of cosmetics and beauty treatments. This figures out at $55.30 a year per woman.

This light was devised as a substitute for astringent massages. “Frigidine” dries the tissue in the skin, removing it. This causes fresh skin growth to be stimulated and a beautiful complexion is the result. The woman in the photo is Miss Elaine Neilon, who is giving a demonstration of the new device.

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THIRTY MAN-POWER POSTAL SORTING MACHINE

By D. H. BACH

INSTALLED at the Chicago post-office is a new and striking machine for distributing mail. It looks like a monster typewriter attached to a belt conveyor, and is the first mechanical letter distributor to be adopted by any post-office.
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Flying Down On The Job

THE first airplane to get off the ground back in 1903 was flown by a prone pilot. Originated by the Wright Brothers, the prone pilot position was soon abandoned in favor of the upright seat and was to all intents and purposes a dead issue until the mid-30′s. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bird-Size Plane Wins Air Race at 140 M.P.H.!

STREAKING low above the ground, a tiny silver plane whines toward the pylon at the National Air Races held at Los Angeles. With speed which seems more comparable to that of a projectile than an airplane she bursts from nowhere and is gone with a whine. It is Ed Heath’s “Baby Bullet,” smaller than a South American Condor!
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Electronics Wizard

By Eric Northrup

EMIK AVAKIAN sits in his wheel chair surrounded by electronic miracles. He is a victim of cerebral palsy which has handicapped his body but not effected his brilliant mind. His condition inspired his inventing career. He says, “A man’s body is a vast intercom system serviced by a central transmitter, the brain. Read the rest of this entry »

A Colorful Introduction to Computers

Here’s a fun and educational coloring book to introduce your home computer to the youngest members of your family. The Magic Machine explores the excitement and wonder of computers from a young child’s point of view. Read the rest of this entry »

WAR SIDELIGHTS

THE AMERICAN GIRL RUSHES TO SAVE HER COUNTRY

The Naval Reserves in Oakland, California, now are receiving many recruits— for the wireless and
first aid divisions of the service—from the fairest daughters of California. The photograph shows
Miss Lillian Marriott of Oakland, passing her “physical”.

THEIR MATTRESSES WILL SAVE THEM
Besides providing restful accommodations, these mattresses—belonging to recruits at the Newport Naval Training Station—are also efficient life preservers.

THE SMALLER THE BETTER: NEW DIMENSIONS IN CONVERSATION

In the eye of a needle above is a transistor switch that can turn on or off in ten billionths of a second. It is an example of the micro-miniature devices that Western Electric makes today for the new Electronic Switching Systems now being put into service in the Bell telephone network. Life-size, the unit shown is scarcely larger than the period that ends this sentence. Read the rest of this entry »

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IT’S NEW!

WORLD’S BIGGEST COPTER hefts 7,800-lb. van. Built by Hughes Tools Co. for Air Force.

X-RAY MOVIE. U. of Rochester (N. Y.) film uses shaped fluorescent screen to show inside-outside movements simultaneously.

SOLAR FURNACE used at Cal Tech for melting heat-resistant metals like thorium and zirconium hits 5,600 degrees F. and over. Read the rest of this entry »