Designed for Science
In many ways the E. R. A. 1103 is the most advanced data-handling system yet devised. By tremendous speed, large storage capacity, and great programming versatility, the system assures ideal handling of the most intricate computations.
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SCIENCE • MECHANICS • INVENTION
A CONVERTIBLE ROAD GRADER AND SNOW PLOW
This dual purpose machine is the recent offering of a Minnesota inventor, and is now being used by the city of Minneapolis. The diagonally arranged scraper or plow blade may be raised or lowered by the hand levers. It also may be tilted to a slanting position for working on the side of an arched roadway. The improved supporting frame by which the scraper is pivotally supported in proper position when the machine frame is tilted prevents breakage of the parts.
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ARMCHAIR PILOTS
They fly babes with beeper boxes They’re not really armchair pilots, because they never fly from armchairs; they’re more likely to be in jeeps, or in “mother” planes. But the name does fit after a fashion, for these boys are nowhere near the planes they are flying. They are the Army Air Forces’ radio pilots. Wiggling levers on little five-pound boxes, they control huge four-motored giants that may be 50 miles away behind a cloudbank. Read the rest of this entry »
Garden Magic With Electric Lighting!
by Marshall Perham
IF ON some black, moonless night, you chanced to be winding arduously up the mountains back of Altadena, California, you might think you were seeing ghosts-—and hearing them, too. For there in a little draw, branching off the main canyon, you would see light from a non-existent moon bathing the landscape, and hear the mighty music of symphonies drifting down from the mountain tops But there is no cause for alarm, for the mysterious light and music have natural explanations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aeromarine sounds like a color and that’s a pretty weak name for something that looks like it should be flown by G.I. Joe. I suppose this is reasonable considering that the inventor’s name is Skeets, but I think we can do better.
Maybe something more muscular, like “Car-BO-Plane” (over-hyphenation and making one word ALL CAPS was very popular in these mags). Or maybe something personal like “The Skeeter” or “Skeetsmobile”.
What do you think?
The Car-Boat That Flies
Skeets Coleman’s three-way gadabout will be a performing fool and as easy to pilot as a ’56 car.
THE GREAT advances in aircraft design of the past 15 years have had little effect on the looks or performance of the small private planes now being built; you could have landed any of them at a small airport in the mid-30′s without scaring anybody. But with Skeets Coleman’s Aeromarine design the field of private plane building may begin to catch up with the times.
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Though his plan for a mass market chicken rotisserie was a failure, Katay found that replacing the chickens with little wooden soccer men made for a delightful game. Which he promptly named after his (now-ex) girlfriend Foos.
Visible incubator gives you a look at baby chicks hatching. All phases of birth from first peck at shell to day old chicks are visible.
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Gets 90 Miles on Gallon of Gas
THIS youngster, shown in the photo below, is the envy of all the children in her neighborhood. Her ‘”private car” run? from its own power and is easily operated. It was built by her father and is capable of going 30 miles an hour. She gets about 90 miles on a gallon of gas.
When even a DIY article from 1937 peppers it’s instructions with warnings, it’s probably best to be very careful.
MAKE Artificial LIGHTNING WITH GIANT OUDIN COIL
by John L. Welbourn
Editor’s Note—This equipment is particularly suited for science class-room demonstrations. At no time should a demonstration be attempted by one unfamiliar with the apparatus. Although the giant brush discharge is harmless to the average person, a shock from any part of the equipment other than the high-frequency transformer will carry with it serious consequences to the person involved. It is suggested that when this apparatus is demonstrated before a group of persons, they be warned not to touch the apparatus and to stand a respectful distance from the low-voltage equipment.
THE apparatus about to be described is capable of throwing a spark four and a half feet long. In spite of its deadly appearance, this spark is quite harmless. The operator may hold a metal rod in his hand and let it jump to the end of the rod and run through his body to ground, not only without harm, but without any sensation of shock. A rather spectacular stunt is to hold one wire leading to an incandescent light, and bring the other end near the coil. The lamp will be lighted by the current passing through the body and may in a few minutes even be burned out. A mystifying trick is to hold a short length of neon tube in one’s hand, and approach the coil. Long before there is any sign of a spark jumping to the tube, it will light with its characteristic glow. Read the rest of this entry »
Plastic Phonograph Records Are Decorated in Color
Appropriate color pictures adorn both sides of new plastic phonograph records, made-by Vogue Recording Co., Inc., of Detroit, that not only outlast ordinary shellac records but may be put up in the game room or children’s room as decorations. A noiseless, super-high-fidelity plastic surface on an aluminum core prevents them from breaking or warping and gives true tone without needle scratch. .
Motorboat Bed
WHEN Raymond Ferrari sends his five-year-old son Richard to bed, the lad climbs into a full-size replica of a speed boat and hits the sack, a 74-inch mattress covered by a nautical quilt. When he presses a button on the carved outboard motor, the light goes out. Richard’s brothers, Stephen, 11, and Raymond, nine, sleep in the next room. Its walls are decorated with wolf skins and murals of cowboys roping their steers. The Seaford, L. I. family lives in a boy’s dream world fashioned by their imaginative and handy dad.
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