Archery and Poker Game in One
POKER and archery are combined in a new game that has a target on which are painted all the cards of the poker deck, as shown in the photo above. Points are scored by shooting five regular arrows into the cards to make four aces, a full house, three of a kind, or whatever your shots draw. The young lady in the photo above, Miss Helen Thompson, wintering at Ormond Beach, Florida, has just shot three aces and a pair of kings—a winning hand.

Scientimechanics

Gun Detector
THE instruments at the left are a modest contribution to the cause of disarmament—at least, in our retreats for the predatory. The importation of weapons into these institutions has become a nuisance, so far as prison wardens are concerned. This represents an electrically balanced system; bringing a weapon between them—even in an inside pocket, turns on a light and sets off a buzzer. It will not be fooled by wooden guns, however.
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THE DRIBBLE BIB

WORLD’S LARGEST NECKTIE

The tie that tops all gift neckties and defrosts the most dignified gathering. Made from heavy awning cloth in bright, gaudy, horrible stripes. Snaps on under collar. Really useful for spaghetti, lobster, etc. Let ‘em dribble!

Just $1.50 ppd.

FREE CATALOGUE UNUSUAL GIFTS

GREENLAND STUDIOS. Dept. 10
5858 Forbes St. Pittsburgh 17, Pa.

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Midget Cars with Motors in the Wheels

by HANS ROHRBACH
Noted German Airplane Designer

The man who kept the Allies jumping during the World War to keep up with his advances in airplane design, now threatens to revolutionize the world’s automotive industry with midget cars powered by motors which require no cooling and mounted directly to the wheels.

WHY should the automobile you drive to work in the morning weigh a ton or more, be pushed along by cumbersome shafts and gearing, be powered with a heat engine which actually wastes more than half of the heat, or consumes more than twice the fuel it should, be equipped with four expensive tires and wheels when three would do, and require ten to fifteen feet of valuable curb space to park?
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Totally unrelated to the article, but it’s interesting to see how subtle changes to fonts can make OCR systems completely fail. ABBYY FineReader 10 (which is by far the best OCR program I’ve found), was utterly unable to read any of the bold text on top, or even recognize that it WAS text.

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INTRODUCING THE HP-41C.

A CALCULATOR.

A SYSTEM.

A WHOLE NEW STANDARD.

The new HP-41C has more than any handheld calculator HP has ever offered. More capability, flexibility, ease-of-use features and options: Memory Modules; an “extra smart” Card Reader; a Printer; The Wand — a new input device; and Application Modules.
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A keep-going pipe

A former Paris taxi driver. Pierre Alidiere, has invented a pipe that won’t go out. When the smoke begins getting thin, you just squeeze a rubber bulb on the bowl bottom. Voila! This fans the embers into life again.

Why is there a basketball team watching the girl ride? And also, doesn’t almost one slice per minute seem a bit high?

Meter Gauges Work in Bread-Slice Units

How rapidly exercise uses up the energy in the food you eat is graphically demonstrated by a device called the “bread-o-meter” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. When a visitor mounts a bicycle frame and pedals vigorously, a generator produces electricity in proportion to his effort, and figures on a board show how many slices or loaves of bread would be needed to furnish this energy.

How would they turn sideways? Wouldn’t it be impossible to do all the other stuff on the ground? Like, you know, get on the plane?

Planes Need No Wheels

Airplanes should keep their wheels on the ground, believes Samuel S. Knox, of Long Beach,. Calif. He has patented a landing strip formed of pneumatic-tired wheels, which could be powered to speed take-offs and braked to shorten landing rolls. It would free the plane of landing-gear weight.

Garage folds against side of wall

A new awning garage bolts to an outside wall, folds flat when not in use, and pulls down to enclose a car. Its pivoted tubular ribs are spring-balanced for easy raising and lowering. British Carquad is made in seven lengths from 9 to 18 feet, can be attached to an existing garage for a second car or to house a small boat.

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THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST

On the fascination of microscopy and some curious amateur observations of the moon.

Conducted by Albert G. Ingalls

ADAM’S lack of foresight when he named the creatures of the earth (Genesis 2:19) certainly made things difficult for his scientific descendants. If he had made a list of the animals as he named them, how easy it would now be, for instance, to label a microscope slide! As it is, the rediscovery and renaming of the world’s organisms has been slow, painful work. Aristotle knew about 520 animals and Theophrastus could identify approximately the same number of plants. Read the rest of this entry »

HERE IT IS
THE AMAZING NEW Man-From-Mars RADIO HAT

COMPLETE 2-TUBE RADIO BUILT INTO A HAT

Here’s the famous two-tube topper you’ve read about in LIFE. TIME, POPULAR SCIENCE, BUSINESS WEEK, and many other magazines and newspapers, coast-to-coast. Now, you too can own this wonderful “dream-come-true” radio hat. A perfect gift idea! Study these amazing features…. Read the rest of this entry »

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Housekeeping Tools To Minimize Labor

A rubber cap replaces the metal one taken from a bottle of ginger ale or other refreshment and, being air-tight, preserves what is left of the contents for future use. The deep groove lets the core go inside the bottle when you give it a twist, and allows the rim of the cap to encircle the outside of the top of the bottle.

The three aluminum kettles shown here fit inside one another so that a different dish may be cooked in each, although only one burner of a stove is required. The upper kettles may be used for steaming or boiling. Handles are insulated and do not get hot.
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