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Color Mixing That Can’t Miss

With 12 ingredients, a paint dealer now can reproduce any one of 1,000 colors exactly in a few minutes.

GUESSWORK has been eliminated from paint mixing by a scientific system that gives each of 1,000 colors a number of its own and provides a foolproof formula for reproducing it. With the initial help of a novel paint chart on plastic, a paint dealer using the Nu-Hue system, recently developed by The Martin-Senour Company, can quickly reproduce any of the 1,000 colors from a stock of only 12 ingredients. Read the rest of this entry »

Stereoscope Holds Seven Views Mounted on a Disk

Still making a bid for popularity, the old parlor stereoscope is now being offered in a compact, “streamline” form, showing pictures mounted in disks that contain seven colored stereographs each, instead of the traditional card that holds but one view, Tripping a lever at the top of the new stereoscope, which is made of durable plastic, brings the next picture into place, and this may be repeated until the seven have been seen. Originals for the views are made with a special miniature camera, using natural color film. Pictures are paired opposite each other on the disk, and when viewed through the apparatus they give a three-dimensional effect.

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CHRISTOPHER SHOLES’ TYPEWRITER

Nagged by associate James Densmore, Sholes made many models to improve his Type-Writer machine.

By Alfred Lief

IN 1863 a Wisconsin printer named Christopher Latham Sholes was appointed collector of the Port of Milwaukee by President Lincoln. It wasn’t a strenuous job and Sholes had plenty of time on his hands. He spent it in a machine shop on the north side of town where he and some friends tinkered with inventions.
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It’s New

WORLD’S LARGEST vehicle on rubber tires is 274-ft. six-sectioned LeTourneau Sno-Freighter. made for Alaskan snow trails.

BOY’S BRAINCHILD is 14-year-old Sherwood Fuehrer’s robot which lifts, lights up. says, “I am Gismo,” may soon be walking.

MOTORISTS’ DELIGHT is new parking center in downtown San Francisco. Curving ramps take 1.200 cars to or from spaces.
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Todays man-about -the-world heads for gay South America

A new day has dawned in travel. People who’ve been everywhere now talk of South America’s cities, scenery and lavish hotels—where dollars go a long, long way.

Lowest fares yet! For 30% off regular fares, you can go ’round South America on a gay 28-day pre-planned tour. $989 from New York, includes hotel rooms, local sightseeing, and you fly El Pacifico DC-6Bs. For slightly more, you can fly El Inter Americano DC-7s. Both have radar, fly daily over the routes of National, Pan Am and Panagra. Call your Travel Agent or Pan American, Sales Agent for—

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Panda hair? Was this a common expression?

New greaseless way to keep your hair neat all day
Prevents dry, unruly “panda hair”

New Vitalis keeps hair in place and prevents dryness with V-7, the grease-less grooming discovery.

You never have an over-slick, plastered-down look. Try it. You’ll like it.
New VITALIS” Hair Tonic with V-7,

ANDROID AMUSEMENT CORPORATION

For Further Information on the Quasar Industries Robot Featured in this Publication and how you can obtain it for your Trade Show and Promotional Needs

Contact:
ANDROID AMUSEMENT CORPORATION
(Exclusive Western Representatives lor Quasar Industries)
(213) 445-5330 or (213) 266-1994

2324 Lenta Lane, Arcadia. California 91006

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The Quasar Industries’ Robot
A Dream That Came True

By Gene Beley

Android Amusement Corporation Robots are going to be part of our everyday lives, and Quasar Industries seems to have a head start on getting us there.

Gene presents the story of Quasar in a light-hearted fashion, and whets the imagination for future developments. —Editor Nine years before Star Wars jetted through the movie theaters of the world, introducing two lovable robots, Quasar Industries, Inc. of New Jersey gave birth to a full-size working ‘droid, Klatu. Even though Klatu was the result of more than 40 designs submitted by an eight-man team of engineers and scientists, of whom nearly all succumbed to death or serious illnesses before his successful completion, there was no worldwide media fanfare. Read the rest of this entry »

Where Robot Mice And Robot Men Run Round In Robot Towns

By Ray Bradbury

They asked me where I’d choose to run, which favored? Ups? or Downs?

Where robot mice and men, I said, run round in robot towns.

But is that wise? for tin’s a fool and iron has no thought!

Computer mice can find me facts and teach me what I’m not.

But robot all inhuman is, all’s sin with cog and mesh.
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Torture Test!

It’s murder! Sardonic schemes check consumer products to see if they can take rugged treatment.

Groaning printed circuit of Sylvania TV set, with tubes and components in place, is made to vibrate up to four inches out of position 22 times per sec.
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Building a “Tarzan” Tree Hut

IF YOU want to experience the sensation of a wild ride with the airmail, select a night when the weather man predicts “whoopee,” don a helmet, goggles, leather jerkin, or what have you, and seat yourself in a swivel chair in the highest tree hut you can find. To help the imagination, take along a flash light and a book of airplane adventures. However, you won’t need these after the storm breaks. Boy! Feel those air bumps! You zoom to get above the storm. You roll! You side slip! Then, crash! Read the rest of this entry »

Climbers Use Odd Exerciser

Made like a rungless ladder with adjustable sides that can be moved apart or brought closer together at will, a novel exerciser recently constructed was designed especially for mountain climbers. Straddling upward between the side-pieces, climbers obtain useful practice for mounting the narrow gaps and crevices they meet in a real climb.