Shadow Amusements
CHILDREN and grown-ups alike are intrigued by shadow pictures. Many house parties have been salvaged from the depths of boredom by the arrival of a guest who knew how to flick his fingers before a table lamp in such a manner as to cast mirth-provoking silhouettes upon the living room wall. Read the rest of this entry »
TV IN A CAR
The kids looking so raptly at the TV screen at left are seated in the back of a moving automobile. This was a demonstration of an experimental auto television set developed by General Motors’ Delco Radio Division for Oldsmobile. It is dual-purpose, operating in a car and removable for use on line current. Having eight-inch screens, such sets were first shown by Oldsmobile this year at the Chicago and Detroit automobile shows.
Somebody Loves Me…
When other girls of her age were out with their boy friends of a Saturday night, Marilyn sat home with Rover. Good, old faithful Rover … he didn’t mind the trouble* that put Marilyn in wrong wherever she went.
Even your best friend won’t tell you.
The insidious thing about *halitosis (unpleasant breath) is that you, yourself, seldom realize you’re guilty of it . . . and even your best friend won’t tell you. Read the rest of this entry »
INVENTORS! America Needs You!
by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Famous Military Expert EVERYBODY has at least one good invention up his sleeve—and now’s the time to cash in on yours!
Remember that idea you had last winter for a device to beat off air-raids? You always meant to get to work on it, but somehow never did. Or maybe you thought of a new kind of searchlight while working on your boat. Or a stunt which you believed would simplify minesweeping.
You’ve probably had ideas like these, or ones similar to them, at some time in your life and put them aside because you were ashamed to talk about them. Afraid your friends would ridicule you, or call you a nut.
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3D Color-TV is Here!
Remote operator of nuclear reactor can now view in depth and color
By LOUIS E. GARNER, JR.
Three-dimensional coior-TV is now providing realistic viewing of adjustments inside a nuclear reactor. Use of stereo allows the precise depth perception necessary for correct positioning of controls, and use of color-TV permits quick identification by the control operator of reactor equipment in the dangerous area where no human is safe. Read the rest of this entry »
Little Mistakes That Wreck MARRIAGE
Why do so many couples live at cross purposes?’ Instead of perfect happiness why does marriage commonly bring sorrow? Don’t people know how to marry or don’t they know how to act after marriage? You should know more about marriage! If you contemplate taking the step why take it blindly? If you are already married why not be perfectly happy? Read the rest of this entry »
JUNK YARD FANTASY
Toni Hughes Turns Metal Lath And All Manner Of Odd Junk Into Weird Things That Critics Call Works Of Art—And She Sells Them!
by Irwin Kostin
MISS TONI HUGHES, New York artist, is the junkman’s delight. Out of the junkyard and the hardware store she has devised a new art form that has become the latest fad in New York art circles and is rapidly sweeping across the country. Her art is readily adaptable to the workshop and should furnish a world of hew ideas to everyone who has a flair for the unique and a workshop and a junkyard handy.
The basis of most of her creations is wire netting, varied with metal lath, grillwork and ordinary wire screen. These materials she supplements with assorted hardware accessories, ribbons, seashells, rubber balls, old funny papers—or what have you?
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MEMORIAL TO COLUMBUS IS EARTHQUAKE-PROOF
Earthquake-proof because of its massive and low-hung design, an impressive memorial is to be erected on the island of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean Sea to commemorate the arrival of Columbus on his historic voyage. It will be floodlit and surmounted by a powerful beacon, to serve as a lighthouse for mariners and airmen. An airport is to be built nearby. The design for the Columbus memorial, a tapering cross in form, was conceived by a twenty-four-year-old British architect, and recently was selected as the best of 450 submitted from architects of forty countries in an international competition.
I’m sure someone told the ad agency to make the bread seem “modern” and “scientific” and in the fifties and sixties, that meant “put a rocket in it.” If you want to read a brilliant account of how the space race came to pervade advertising of the time, check out Megan Prellinger’s book Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962
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Sea-Going Diner Pays No Taxes
BY TOM MCCAHILL
SAILORMEN of New York waters don’t die of thirst any- more, thanks to a new enterprise that pays no rent and no local taxes.
No, sir. When they’re a little parched they twist an ear until they pick up a few musical horn-toots. Then they jump up and wave their arms. A slick cruiser draws alongside. “What’ll you have?” asks a smiling cookie. Read the rest of this entry »
MOTOR CYCLE HAS JACKKNIFE CHASSIS
To allow easy access to its motor, the body of a motor cycle recently constructed by a French inventor unfolds like a jackknife. A metal frame, which supports the driver’s seat and covers the motor, is attached to the chassis so that it may be tilted straight up in the air, exposing the motor to full view. No extensive adjustments are necessary preparatory to raising the frame, and the tilting may be done in a few seconds, it is claimed.
I wonder what he’d have thought of Watson.
How Smart are Computers?
BY J. R. PIERCE
ACCORDING TO DOCTOR PIERCE: “The chief charm of the computer comes from the mental skill, agility and insight which men called programmers exercise in causing it to solve difficult and fascinating problems. ”
“Though faster, computers are less versatile than human beings, because they are formed of fewer parts. ”
“The principal limiting factor of the computer is human direction in the form of a program which will guide the machine in a given task.”When I leave my office to confer with the mathematicians at the Bell Labs, I walk along a corridor with a long glass window on the right-hand wall. Through the window I look into a room about ninety feet long and forty feet wide. There I see a digital computer.
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