Over the last few days the server I host MM on has started crashing randomly. I’m not really sure why, but I’ve been planning on moving the site to another host anyway. So this seems like a pretty good reason to do it. However, I’m a bit busy with work this week (the kind that pays the bills) so I might not be able to get everything migrated until sometime next week.
Until then, the site will probably be down sporadically. Sorry for the inconvenience.
If I had a nickel for every English robot pilot I came across, I’d have… er… a nickel.
Another English Robot Pilot
PROFESSOR J. POPJIE, an English pilot and designer, has recently invented and tested an electrical robot pilot which has successfully piloted a plane on short flights. Although details of this invention have not been revealed, it is known to be operated by a current from an air-screw driven generator.
New England – The VACATION LAND
Maine Coast
The most enchanting and varied sea-shore in America.Marvelous beaches, wild headlands, cliffs, mountains, islands, woods.
Summer vacations of every kind at every price. Great and small hotels, boarding houses, or camping close to nature.
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Trained Carrier Pigeons Are Reliable War Messengers
Members of the signal patrol of the German army enjoy their work in training carrier pigeons. Careful training coupled with the natural instinct of these birds makes them reliable message carriers. In training they are set free at gradually increasing distances from home. Immediately upon release from their cages they will zoom into the air, instantly aware of the home direction and wing for home at the rate of 35 miles an hour. During the war pigeons were found to be invaluable for the transmission of messages from spies within enemy territory. Unauthorized possession of carrier pigeons in war time is a death warrant.
BOOMERANG throwers Show Amazing Skill
Deadly primitive weapon, a flat crooked stick, is still thrown by native tribesmen with remarkable accuracy and properly hurled the weapon will fly back almost to the feet of the thrower. Bushmen make more than 20 forms of boomerangs and the home shop worker can with little difficulty construct his own weapon.
by SAM BROWN
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I’m pretty sure that there is enough bandwidth out there now that every single person on earth could be on the phone at the same time. Though, there’d probably be some seriously over saturated lines in more remote locales.
Incidentally, those calls cost roughly $119 a minute in 2009 dollars.
207 Talk Across Ocean on Xmas
CHRISTMAS traffic on the overseas telephone circuits of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company this year eclipsed all previous records. Throughout the day a total of 207 messages was handled, and the connections established involved Europe, South America, Australia, and the “S. S. Belgeland” off the west coast of Central America.
Practically all of the traffic was of a social or personal nature, involving interchange of holiday greetings. The average length of the conversations was five minutes, at a rate of $30 for the first three minutes.
The FRANKLIN CAR
ONE of the most interesting things in the whole automobile situation is the type of men who own and drive Franklin Cars.
The list of Franklin owners shows a most remarkable average as to substantial rating and strong position in affairs.
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“The Spirit of Physical Culture”
Physical Culturists, Art Lovers
Add These Pictures to Your CollectionTHE series of Athletic Girl Covers that appeared upon Physical Culture Magazine during the last few months attracted so much favorable attention and brought us so very many letters of congratulation and approval that we decided to reproduce the three that were most popular in form suitable for framing.
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A Fan Motor Television Receiver For Experimenters
by L. B. ROBBINSHere is a simple and easily-built type of television receiver with which you can pick up the television images now being transmitted over the air from a number of stations.
THE time is now ripe for radio fans who build their own sets to construct a television receiver. Several broadcasting stations are on the air transmitting on both long and short waves, and have so perfected their apparatus that a simple receiver like that illustrated in the accompanying drawings will bring out the pictures with a fair degree of clarity and brilliancy. Read the rest of this entry »
Booze Foe Image Opens Bottles
THE inventor of the combination bottle opener and cork screw, “Old Snifty,” shown in the photo at the left, must have had a strong sense of humor, for he puts the image of the advocates of prohibition to work at setting the much-hated joy-water to flowing. The nutcracker chin and nose form the bottle opener, while the cork puller projects from the rear. The whole device is made of metal.
Pages like this are why you don’t see more scans from Science and Mechanics on the site. Besides being incredibly annoying to OCR properly, three of these items are “continued on…”. If you go to those pages there will be a single sentence or even just a sentence fragment. This forces me to either ignore them (as I did here) or scan a whole page for that tiny bit of text. And that’s assuming I even notice that it’s continued.
Newest Devices for the General Use
Novel Electric Lighter is Noiseless
• IT seems rather magical when this lighter is touched to the metal ring surrounding the receptacle for the rod and, immediately, a flame springs up. The secret is the small battery of dry cells concealed in the bases, which close a circuit through the insulated ring, on the receptacle, and the heating coil whose glow ignites the lighting fluid. Read the rest of this entry »
DICK TRACY WRIST RADIO
… for Kids from 6 to 60
WEAR IT LIKE A WATCH – USE IT AS A RADIO!
SHOCKPROOF – SAFE!One of the most compact sets you’ve ever seen! Read the rest of this entry »
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