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Novel Ideas From Overseas

Revolving Hospital.

• AT the left, the novel hospital built at Vallauris-le-Cannet, France, by the Institute of Actinology. (The actinic, or chemical rays of the sun, are no longer classified separately; but the term alludes to the effects such as on photographic plates, or reddening skin.) The hospital beds are in the upper portion, shown here from the rear, which turns to keep the sunlight shining through the windows, full on each bed. Read the rest of this entry »

More Telephone Service for more people

From The 1946 Annual Report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

1. In no year since the telephone was invented was there such a remarkable increase in the amount of telephone service furnished to the American people as in 1946. The net gain in the number of Bell telephones was 3,264,000, or more than twice the gain for any previous year. Additional telephones were installed at a rate averaging more than 25 a minute every working day.
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I have a feeling that in the 1950s Sexology was one of the few places people could get reasonable, non-judgmental, fact-based help about sexual issues.

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Your Sex Questions Answered

The purpose of the QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT is strictly educational. All answers are made by a medical authority and are based on recorded experiences of similar cases.
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This is one of the longest articles I’ve ever seen in Mechanix Illustrated.

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It’s a Dog-Gone STRANGE WORLD!

Here are some of the darnedest breeds of dogs you ever saw. They do everything from diving for fish to rooting up the fabulous truffle.

By Douglas Kennedy

THE fisherman teetered dangerously-on the slippery rock out in the surf. He had just latched onto a 30-pound bass. But in all the excitement of hooking the big fish he had gotten his line fouled up and nearly plunged headlong into the chilly sea.

As he struggled for a footing, he yelled for his dog on the shore. The animal dashed into the water and dived under the surface. A moment later he came up with the escaping bass flopping helplessly in his jaws. Quickly the dog swam back and deposited his catch up on the beach, then helped tow his master safely ashore. Read the rest of this entry »

My dad’s the GREATEST…and so is my new HARLEY-DAVIDSON TOPPER

Like father, like son… happy with the new Topper.

What a ride — gentle as a billowy summer cloud … with dual suspension and large foam rubber saddle. Dependability — plenty of get-up-and-go. Automatic Scoot-away transmission—no shifting or clutching needed.
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Noted Engineers Design Powerful New Snowfighting Machines

SOME blizzardy morning, if you live in a big city, you may look out of your window to see a monster motor-driven snow shovel creeping down the street, pushing its nose into high drifts, shoveling up snow at one end, and turning it out in the form of tightly packed snowballs at the other! Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently to make a crossbow modern you just have to give it a sciency name. Still waiting for a Photon Cannon.

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“Ye Atom Smasher”… A Modern Crossbow

By George F. Snell Jr.

FOR the dub archer, hopelessly infected with the romance of medieval weapons, a crossbow should be the answer. A sporting crossbow is easier to make than a really good long bow and is much less difficult to shoot accurately. The cost should not exceed four or five dollars.

The power of a crossbow like the one illustrated is invariably a surprise to those not familiar with archery. In one test it shot a bolt (arrow) not only through a thick telephone directory, but also through a 3/32″ piece of sheet steel used to back it up! Such a powerful weapon must always be used with the utmost caution. Read the rest of this entry »

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Now It’s LAND BATTLESHIPS!

THIS striking illustration by Staff Artist Reynold C. Anderson is a conception, based on all available technical reports, of what is perhaps the most amazing of all the new weapons developed in the present nightmarish war—the Russian “land battleship.”
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New Toys for Junior

Atomic Lab Set. shown at the American Toy Fair in New York, has cloud chamber that makes visible the paths taken by speeding alpha particles, a Geiger counter, and a screen that shows the break-up of radio-active material. A. C. Gilbert Co., of New Haven, Conn. Read the rest of this entry »

You’re TWICE as Handsome Since You Gained 10 Lbs.

It’s a crime to be SKINNY When Thousands Gain 10 to 15 Pounds

This Special, Quick Way EVEN if you never could gain an ounce—even if you seem “born” to be skinny and friendless—remember thousands have gained solid, naturally attractive flesh this new, easy way—in just a few weeks! Read the rest of this entry »

Every time I see the word “sabotage” I can’t help but hear it in William Shatner’s voice.

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Sabotage!

Here, on the next few pages, you will read the shocking but all too true story of how a little band of saboteurs, as inconspicuous as you and I, can paralyze the United States.

Sabotage!

By Martin Caidin

IT could happen today—tonight—without warning. An attack on our country—but not necessarily with roaring jet bombers, screaming rockets and exploding atom bombs. A crippling assault without warning could be launched against our critical cities, ports, rail centers, factories, farm belts, power stations and military objectives by one of Communism’s deadliest weapons—sabotage.
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UPSIDE-DOWN TROLLEY
THERE has been much talk and conjecture recently on the possibility of employing a series of elevated monorail systems to help relieve the growing traffic problem that has been plaguing our country’s highways and railroads in the past few years. Well, just in case you might be thinking that a monorail is something brand-new, take a look at these photos that MI has dug up on a suspended trolley that has been in operation in Germany for over 50 years, is still unduplicated.