Engineering Features of 1937 Auto Marvels
by JAMES DYSON
AUTOMOBILES for 1937 attain new levels of safety, comfort and flexibility. Some models are little changed in outward appearance but all boast internal improvements of interest to the motorist. Many refinements hitherto found only in machines of high price are available for the first time in makes of the lowest cost.
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Bedroom on Stilts 10 Degrees Cooler Than on the Ground
WHEN A. Winters, a Californian, needed a cooler sleeping place he built a bedroom on top of a forty-foot steel tower, up in the air where the breezes are blowing. The room is large enough for a bed, two chairs and a small table. Read the rest of this entry »
Why, you might almost call it an Oldsmobile.
Tiny Steam Car Goes 10 m. p. h.
BILLY OLDS, Jr., two and one-half years, is the proud possessor of this steam car which he can drive at a speed of 10 m.p.h.
Jivin’ up the Jeep
FOLLOWING the publication of articles in the October and November 1946 issues of Mechanix Illustrated, readers in practically every state have sent in ideas for improving the comfort and utility of the versatile and popular Army jeep. Here are a few suggestions of general interest. We will publish others in forthcoming issues. If you have any useful hints or kinks, send them to Joe Jeep, c/o Mechanix Illustrated, 67 West 44th Street, New York 18, N. Y. Good snapshots are especially wanted. A payment of $5.00 each will be made for acceptable ideas.
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How Liquor ‘Importers’ Make ‘Old Stuff’ from Alcohol
Product of a “reliable importer” seized in his hotel room, a plant for making “old stuff” from denatured alcohol.
A dry officer shows how denatured alcohol is cut with water and doctored with creosote and burnt sugar, and below, wrapped with straw.
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A “Down the CELLAR” Chem Lab
by FREDERICK O. SCHUBERT
Here are some interesting experiments you can perform with simple chemicals, with notes on building the beginnings of your own basement chemistry lab. More next month!
NOW that we’ve succeeded in shoving Andy, the grease monkey, and the rest of the “hangar gang” over a bit for the lab boys, let’s get together and make real use of our “chem” pages. Read the rest of this entry »
British Motor Cars Improved to Win Women Buyers
BY PROVIDING luxury automobiles completely equipped on the American plan at a price heretofore charged without extra refinements, British automotive manufacturers hope to retain their grip on the market with the addition of the new season’s models which they exhibited recently; in the Olympia.
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New Sun Hat Doesn’t Touch Head and Is Collapsible
A LIGHT sun hat that collapses and doesn’t touch the head has been invented by Dr. Henry T. Pistole, of Dallas, Texas. The hat is made of wire covered with fabric. The hat support is attached to wearer’s body by a belt around the waist, no part touching the head. Thus a free circulation of air is assured. The hat weighs only eight to twelve ounces according to the fabric used for covering. The device doesn’t bind or irritate the skin and doesn’t interfere with free use of the muscles in any sport or work. The cover is collapsed by simply pushing it back. Mosquito netting can be easily thrown over the hat and tucked into the belt.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this at my gym…
New Easy-to-Operate Tire Pump
A BRITISH inventor, who likes his rowing exercises, produced this tire .pump which enables the maximum amount of air to be forced into an automobile tire with the minimum amount of effort. The seat slides forward and backward on runners just as the seat on a racing boat does, enabling the operator to get a long, strong pull on the pump handle. As the work is distributed over the leg and back muscles, as well as those of the arms, the pump is pleasant and not fatiguing to use. The invention is appropriately called a Situflator.
American Cyanamid feels like it should the big evil corporation in Portal or Resident Evil.
Leather is going places
It’s vacation time… and everybody’s on the go. Naturally, leather goes along too. For leather is a wonderful traveling companion; there’s nothing finer for luggage, golf bags, hand bags, jackets and a host of other articles that must look well and wear well.
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New Ways to Do Things
Electrical Cradle Soothes Baby
THE motor that rocks the baby now rules the world. Mamma can set the invention at the right to any tempo that best soothes the little stranger, and go about her work.
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Bull’s-eye!… for telephone users
In rapid-fire order, this girl at one of Western Electric’s factories attaches wires to Bell telephone equipment she’s helping to make. That “gun” in her hand is a wire-wrapping tool newly developed by Western Electric engineers that fastens the wires better, faster, with less cost than ever before.
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