Star Actors of the Flea Circus
by ALFRED ALBELLI
PROF. William Heckler’s Trained Flea Circus at Hubert’s Museum on West 42nd St., New York City, proves a great spectacle for the skeptical to marvel at, and at the same time the professor shows that he has bridged one of the gaps between science and practical mechanics.
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Mechanical Contraptions to Keep You Entertained
by JAY EARLE MILLER
When the season opens for amusement parks this spring, you’ll find a number of new mechanical fun-makers ready for your entertainment. Mr. Miller attended an exposition of carnival men recently, and he tells here of the ingenious contraptions which were on display there.
HOW are you going to spend your money when you go to the amusement park next summer? What will they offer to entice your nickels, dimes and quarters?
If you want the answer drop in with me at the winter exposition when the outdoor showmen of America—circus men, carnival men, and state and county fair executives—meet to transact business. Here are all the new things thought up to give you a thrill or a laugh.
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I’m not going to even attempt a transcript of these. If anyone feels like doing it, let me know and I’ll post it.
Do you think this was actually a licensed use of Mickey? Also, what do we think they were selling?
10 First Prizes of $700 Each!
CAN YOU FIND THE TWINS?
Of course, you’ve watched the funny screen capers of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse who has climbed the steps to “movie” fame in Columbia Pictures. Recently, Mickey Mouse was acclaimed one of the world’s most popular movie features. His name and fame are spreading everywhere as more and more movie fans get to know him. Read the rest of this entry »
I have a feeling that if this ad had been a TV commercial the Asian guy in back would probably be a bit like this.
SECRET/WEAPON
The complaisant expression on the face of the apprentice engineer stems from the knowledge that there will be no disappointments for any gallery which his antics may attract. Why? Because his equipment includes only such reliable items as the Sigma Series 11 Relay.
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The Sea-Gem: a 100mph Air-Cushion Ship by 1963
By JAMES JOSEPH
NON-ELECTION year 1963 may nevertheless bring a spectacular inauguration.
Some time next year, America’s first air-cushion ship, the Sea-GEM (for sea-going ground effect machine) may streak New York to London on her maiden “flight.”
Riding 3 to 6 ft. above the waves on a frictionless cushion of air, the giant 100-ton craft will be propelled at better than 100 mph by four jet-prop pusher-type engines.
Part ship, part plane, and wholly revolutionary, the Sea-GEM promises its 100 first-flight passengers some surprises.
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Mechanics of the Future
• SCENES on this page, taken from the recent G-B (Gaumont-British) feature film, “Transatlantic Tunnel,” represent a high degree of ingenuity in forecasting the inventions of the next quarter century, as will be seen.
This is scientific and mechanical fiction, not science and mechanics; the film tells a story, without endeavoring to demonstrate its possibility mathematically. Read the rest of this entry »
Takes the Drudgery Out of Mopping
MADE of cellulose sponge, the “business end” of this new floor mop absorbs twenty times its own weight in water yet remains soft and workable. A rectangular metal part with handle provides a squeezing device that wrings out the soiled water, which need not touch the operator’s hands. Only a slight pressure is necessary to squeeze out the water. There are no gadgets nor parts to get out of order. The mop can be used easily and quickly for cleaning walls as well as floors, and rugs also. The mop head can be detached for use in window and auto washing.
The fastest speed a human being has ever traveled is roughly 25,000 mph (Apollo astronauts). Speed of light in a vacuum is 670,616,629 mph so they were only off by a factor of 27,000 or so.
SCIENCE LOOKS AHEAD TO 2000 A.D.
When a development engineer like myself looks into the future and tries to explain what he sees, he begins to sound more like a science-fiction writer than a development engineer.
By the year 2000, for instance, it is entirely possible that we may have spaceships which can travel at a speed approaching the speed of light. This would put us in a position to examine some of the fantastic implications of Einstein’s theories. Read the rest of this entry »
This is one of those articles where they happen to get it exactly right. How many people alive today have ever even seen a mechanical television? The CRT is probably one of the more important inventions of the last century. It made TV and computer displays practical and economical. It was even used for data storage.
Kids growing up today will never learn the joy and muscular-skeletal pain one received simply by attempting to lift a 30″ TV on to a table.
Fastest Television Scanner – The Cathode-Ray Tube
Television receivers of tomorrow will employ this newest scanning device, which “paints” the image on a fluorescent screen with a beam of electrons moving at incredible speed.
THE Cathode-Ray Tube gives every promise of becoming the real panacea for all of television’s problems. There are strong rumors that one of the largest television and radio interests will, probably, place on the market this season a television receiver for home entertainment, in which a specially designed cathode-ray tube will do the scanning, and take the place of the now familiar revolving scanning disc and motor. The cathode-ray tube has several notable advantages over the mechanical scanners; one of which is that it eliminates all rotating or other moving mechanical parts. Read the rest of this entry »
Teletypewriters and Airplane Cops Trail Eastern Crooks
EASTERN criminals on the “lam” must move faster than ever today if they want to make good their escape for they are being trailed by teletypewriters and airplane police. The Pennsylvania State Police have been provided with tele- typewriters distributed in five zones throughout the state. Alarms and descriptions of crooks as written on the typewriter in the sending office are received throughout the state on electric typewriters just as fast as the sender can write. And in Bergen county, New Jersey, Peter J. Siccardi, chief of the traffic squad, has organized a squad of five flying police officers.
Robot Plays Solitaire
Ingenious Electrical Device Sorts Millions of Cards
SORTING millions of cards by name and number is so tedious a task that a large public service corporation found it difficult to keep clerks on such work; and an automatic sorter was requisitioned. After some study, the machine illustrated here was designed by Douglass A. Young, an electrical engineer, to do this work untiringly and without error. Read the rest of this entry »
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