This is what it looks like when you get run over in toon town.
Dummy Motorbike Teaches Safety
RAILWAY workers on English roads get thorough training in First Aid. Below are seen two railroad men practicing rescue work. The “victim” is pretending he has been knocked off his motorbike, while the engineer is treating him for injuries. Feature of this episode is cardboard motorbike.
This image reminds me of the suit the bad guy wore in Innerspace
Motorized Diving Chamber to Seek Sea Bottom Treasure
WITH so much sunken treasure lying around loose and unclaimed on the bottom of the sea, inventors have been stimulated to devise diving contraptions to explore ocean depths on treasure hunting expeditions. The latest diving machine to make its appearance resembles a fantastic sea beast, so strangely is it constructed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Portland has a small neighborhood that is planned a bit like this called Ladds Addition
Of course Cellular City sounds like the name of a crappy cell phone kiosk.
Cellular City of Tomorrow
HIGHLY modernized cellular cities are predicted for the future by the Regional Plan of New York and its Environs based on a 5-year study by Clarence Arthur Perry of the recreation department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
The cell city which is seen by Perry as the inevitable product of an automobile age will be made up of a varying number of complete community units. The cell city-proper will be like a honeycomb of individual cell cities, standardized, and to a certain extent self-sufficient. Read the rest of this entry »
Ash Receiver on Gear Shift Lever
AN ASH receiver at the driver’s finger tips has been invented by an automotive manufacturer to be attached to the gear shift lever, replacing the gear shift ball. The receiver is made of heavy brass and nickel and enameled in assorted colors. The novelty is constructed to withstand hard usage, be useful, and add a colorful touch to the car equipment.
Why doesn’t anyone use the term “topnotchers” anymore?
He Won Success On A Bungle
PLAYING the banjo for an itinerant medicine man might not be considered the ideal preparation for a career as a cartoonist, but that is the unconventional path to comic strip fame followed by Harry Tuthill, creator of the famous Bungle Family.
Tuthill actually bungled into fame, if we may be granted a play on words which is the license of every cartoonist. Harry Tuthill created the Bungle Family, and the family in turn went out and made him famous from coast to coast. Today, with the cartoon strip appearing in scores of daily newspapers throughout the United States, Tuthill is one of the best paid topnotchers of his profession. Read the rest of this entry »
SCIENCE ON SAFARI
Helicopter, diving eye, and wire recorders will ferret out secrets of African jungles Jules Verne was years ahead of his time in foreseeing the value of science to the world of exploration, but the plans for Commander Attilio Gatti’s eleventh expedition to still-darkest Africa would have made even Verne’s prophetic eyes pop.
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The Future is coming. Are you ready?
There are some marvelous benefits ahead for mankind. But along with every benefit will come a whole new set of problems.
Champion is a forward-looking forest products company. We plant seeds for a living. Seeds that take up to 50 years to become mature trees. Therefore, we think a lot about the future of the forest. And, of the people who will be around to buy our products in the years to come.
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Errorless Typewriternot only saves time, materials and the secretary’s nerves but makes neat-as-a-pin copy with even right-hand (as well as left-hand) margins. The electrically driven machine does not print directly onto the paper but sets up a visible line which can be corrected and adjusted for spacing before it registers.
The photo looks like someone got mad after breaking up with NCR and tore up all their pictures.
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PICTURE HISTORY of the ATOM
by Herbert Kondo
Back in the days of Abraham Lincoln, the atom was a strange-looking thing indeed — a bunch of smoke rings. At the turn of the century the atom took on another shape. “It looks like Saturn, the planet,” said Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka.
If these pictures of the atom seem odd to you, bear in mind that no one has ever seen an atom. Because of this, scientists throughout history have built many atomic models in their attempts to get a better understanding of the nature of matter.
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Radio Aids Driver Trainees
High school students learning to drive hear about their “road manners” through in-car radio setup.
BEFORE Flint, Mich., began its driver training program four years ago it had hit rock bottom in traffic safety for cities its size. Now Flint is number two. Read the rest of this entry »
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