Rum Runners Drag Cargo Under River
WHEN SLED WITH LOAD OF LIQUOR ARRIVES IN POSITION UNDERNEATH WHARF, DIVER DESCENDS AND FASTENS HOISTING CABLE TO CARGO. THE CONTENTS ARE THEN HAULED THROUGH A TRAPDOOR OPENING IN FLOOR OF WAREHOUSE
HAND WINCH SECRETED IN SHED ON CANADIAN SIDE OF RIVER PAYS OUT CABLE. LOADED SLED IS DRAWN OVER BED OF RIVER BY HIDDEN WINCH LOCATED IN WAREHOUSE ON THE DETROIT SIDE OF RIVER AND RUM IS THUS TRANSFERRED UNSEEN.
This is a pretty well reasoned piece, though it would have been so much better if the last line had been: “Ergo, Godzilla”.
We Change But Little
By HUGO GERNSBACK
IT is a curious fact that the average layman has an idea that we change biologically during the course of a few generations.
Nothing could be more erroneous. The changes that take place in the characteristics of the normal human being within the course of such a small time interval— geologically speaking—as 5,000 years, are insignificant.
It should always be remembered that even a stretch of 5,000 years, which we human beings may consider long, represents only a couple of hundred generations; which is much too short a space of time to get any positive results, one way or another. Read the rest of this entry »
No one these days would ever believe anything this silly, would they?
Radio Cleared of Slander
THE rush of radio waves through the ether has not made Paris hotter or colder, dryer or rainier than in the years before the invention of wireless, Joseph Sanson, French engineer and meteorologist, has concluded as a result of a study of weather records for the past two centuries. The same sort of irregularities were present in past years as have been evident in the decade since the wide use of wireless.
When the Moon Comes Down
ASTRONOMERS like to scare their hearers from time to time, like the old-fashioned nurse telling children about ogres, with pictures of the end of the world. It may be burnt up by the exploding sun, or frozen by the sun’s extinction (though the latter is less probable); it may lose all its air by radiation into space, and chemical absorption into the earth. But, at the close, the audience is reassured that their fear of its happening in a million years is baseless—that the earth has at least ten million years of existence ahead—and they go away relieved. Read the rest of this entry »
Many NEW USES For OLD FORDS
Extraordinary uses ior the aged motor will make it useful over an indeterminate period.
Here is a farm power plant made from an old Model T Ford automobile. It operates a belt line and shaft for grinding feed, elevating corn and grain, cutting ensilage. It is also rigged up to operate a grindstone and emery wheel tool sharpeners. Such a power plant is of inestimable value on the farm as it can be adapted for a variety of uses. Read the rest of this entry »
Jessica was born with an Oneida spoon in her mouth.
There’s been Oneida tableware in Jessica’s family for ages.
So when Jessica’s One-and-Only appeared, Jessica just naturally thought of only one tableware: Oneida.
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A National Monument
THE annual consumption of ice cream, America’s favorite dish, is now 180,000,000 gallons, says the Department of Agriculture. We have pictured this amount at the right; the can that would hold it would tower above Liberty’s head. It would be indeed a national monument to prosperity, of which ice cream consumption is an index.
Mystery of the Razor Blade
There has been so much misunderstanding of razor blades in the past that every user of those universal utilities will welcome this highly interesting and authoritative article.
By J. G. PRATT
ALTHOUGH a large amount of research lias been conducted in connection with razor blades, the magnification has generally been carried little beyond three or four hundred diameters— insufficient to show the actual cutting edge and the effect of stropping.
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I’ll Make You a Master of CHINESE KUNG-FU
…the Oriental ART of INSTANTANEOUS DEATH that is applied with NO Bodily Contactthe Chinese method of Attack and Self-Defense kept so secret that it has been handed down in China only from father to son because of its DEADLY power to disable or kill! Now these devastatingly brilliant secrets that require NO PHYSICAL STRENGTH OR EXERTION are revealed to you in the English language by a KUNG-FU Master who dares to teach you AT HIS RISK! Read the rest of this entry »
The headphones on the top left look like something out of Mad Magazine.
Recent Inventions
• IN surveying the product of inventive genius, as it appears in the patents issued each week, it is interesting to notice the variety. Of the total, a great proportion are merely based upon previous practice, and are minor improvements, valuable, doubtless, from an economic standpoint, but of interest only to a technician. Others, which may be grasped at a glance are pictured here. Read the rest of this entry »
New Water Power Generator Floats on Stream Surface
FRANK L. GAEDE is credited by engineers with an invention that may revolutionize the water power industry. Power is generated by flowing rather than falling water. The mechanism is an endless chain of troughs or buckets propelled by the current of the stream and operating generators in sections of the floating power house.
Big like Fuller Brush Company Or Small like Dy-Dee Wash, Detroit
These Burroughs Sensimatic savings can be yours
It’s the same refrain from users of Burroughs Sensimatic Accounting Machines everywhere: Far more bookkeeping done far faster—at far less cost!
“The Sensimatic 400 enables us to keep a set of purchase cards, plus our accounts receivable, at considerably less than just the receivables ledger cost previously.” Read the rest of this entry »
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