Scrambled Line-Up
By IRA KAMEN
In the battle for TV ratings crime will be the loser when WUHF broadcasts the line-up THE New York City police are using UHF-television as a weapon in their war against crime. Now, more than ten times the number of detectives can view and study the features and mannerisms of criminals at police line-ups than was previously possible—by watching a TV screen at their local precincts.
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Looks like a bowl of grubs…
16 foods in 1
Think what children get in Puffed Wheat every time you serve it. Whole grains made wholly digestible. Every food cell blasted. All the 16 elements in wheat are made available as food.
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Automatic Cigar Lighter in Ornamental Elephant
Smokers will find this little elephant both an attractive and useful ornament for their dens. Pick him up and an ingenious switch inside him automatically turns on an electric cigarette lighter in his neck. Put him down and the lighter goes out. Only a few inexpensive parts are needed.
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NEW ELASTIC TOPS LESSEN HUGE STOCKING CASUALTIES
The sheerer the stocking, the longer a masculine eye will linger on even the least well-turned calf and ankle. Because of this fact, the mortality rate of women’s silk hose is 500,000,000 pairs annually. If women were willing to wear medium-sheer stockings of eight or more threads twisted in one yarn, their stocking problem would he minimized. Read the rest of this entry »
Clown Town, Texas
In the Gainesville circus everybody from housewife to minister gets into the act.
By Joe Whitley
THE night nurse gasped as a circus clown burst into the emergency ward wheeling an unconscious man whose white satin tights were stained and rumpled.
“Just a moment and I’ll get you a doctor,” she said.
“I am a doctor,” he snapped and started ministering to the patient.
The clown was Dr. S. M. Yarbrough, a leading Texas physician, and the injured man was Portis Sims, city park director. Both were performers with the Gainesville (Texas) Community Circus, an organization made up of judges, housewives. Read the rest of this entry »
Excellent article and pretty accurate too. I loved that they made the early robots pay dues to the machinists union!
OUR HEARTLESS FRIENDS THE ROBOTS
By D. S. HALACY, JR.
WHEN a clock manufacturer needed production line workers recently for a ticklish assembly job, he ordered them from a firm called U.S.I. Robodyne. The workers weighed a bit over 50 pounds, and the clockmaker didn’t hire them—he bought them outright for about $2500.00. Slavery Involving midgets? No, these workers, each doing a man’s or woman’s job, are robots produced by the Robodyne Division of U. S. industries, Inc., at Silver Springs, Md. These “TransfeRobot 200″ mechanical midgets, while not the first automated devices to displace human workers, are unique in some respects. First, they are not custom made, but are standard “off-the-shelf” items available immediately. Read the rest of this entry »
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THE NOVEL GROUND PISTOL
This game device has been invented by George S. Gumaer, of Coronado, California. The barrel of the pistol rests fiat on the ground while the grip is two or three feet above the ground at the end of an upwardly extending inclined handle. The spring-actuated trigger has its lower end pointed to engage in the notched portion of a cylindrica Read the rest of this entry »
A Simple 2-Cylinder Electric Engine
by Sewell V. Lehman
The Amateur Electrician Department offers this month plans for building an electric motor of extremely unique design. Powered by two solenoid magnets, it will easily operate small mechanical toys.
FROM a few odds and ends and a quantity of magnet wire you can construct an interesting little two-cylinder electric engine that resembles a steam engine in its actions. Electrical energy is transformed into mechanical motion by two solenoid magnets acting on iron pistons connected to a suitable crank shaft.
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Today, integrated A-M methods transmit vital business information faster, regardless of the “language” or system you use. It may be via Addressograph metal or plastic plates or bar code. It may be “just plain English” reproduced by Multilith’ masters. Or MICR type, punched cards, paper tape, or the impulses of magnetic tape. Read the rest of this entry »
ROCKET CATCHER
IF and when space travel becomes a reality, there’ll be the problem of landing high-speed rocket ships. D. B. Driskill of San Francisco thinks he has the answer in his U. S. Patent 2,592,873. He would build a system of telescoping tubes butted against a mountainside or mounted on skis or a train platform. Read the rest of this entry »
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