Educated Clock Sings, Talks, and Plays the Pipe Organ
A CRIPPLED inventor of Akron, Ohio, has recently completed what he believes is the world’s most wonderful clock. The remarkable instrument gives the comparative time in 27 different cities. In addition, it sings, talks and plays a reedless pipe organ every hour.
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Movie Stunt Men Risk Their Lives to Thrill Millions
By John E. Lodge
NINE times, a movie stunt man plunged into the swirling rapids of a Washington river, swimming forty-five minutes in water twenty degrees below the freezing point. In Southern California, another demolished nine new automobiles in spectacular crashes within a week. A third member of this strange fraternity jumped an untrained farm horse sixty feet into a pool of water; three others walked leisurely in asbestos suits through seven gallons of flaming oil, scattered over a steep stairway. Still another pulled the pin to unloose the tongue of an old-fashioned western stagecoach and plunged down a mountain canyon in the runaway vehicle. Read the rest of this entry »
Automatic Cigarette Lighter in Ornamental Elephant
Smokers will find this little elephant both an attractive and useful ornament for their dens. Pick him up and an ingenious switch inside him automatically turns on an electric cigarette lighter in his neck. Put him down and the lighter goes out. Only a few inexpensive parts are needed.
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One minute is all it takes
… to make 5 photo-exact copies of any record for 2-1/2c each.
Letters, news clippings, pencil or ink records . . . even carbon and spirit duplicator copies can be reproduced by anyone in your office. No change in your present room lighting!… to make a translucent “whiteprint master” for 100. No time lost, now, when you wish to produce quantities of blueprints or whiteprints from opaque or two-sided material.
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Seems like the I-5, no?
Highway Will Span Two Continents
FROM the land of the midnight sun down the Pacific slope of two continents a 16,000-mile highway will stretch, linking Alaska with the Argentine.
Already the road has been surveyed on the ground and from the air from Central America to Fairbanks, Alaska. At the moment a party of five men are fighting Central American jungles, chopping their way down canyons and across mountains to Panama, mapping what will become the central portions of the long highway.
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This Christmas give him three great gifts for the price of a Playboy Club key.
Clip the coupon above and come Christmas day, here’s what each VIP on your gift list will receive:
1. His personal Playboy Club key-card. The coveted symbol of the good life will admit him to Clubs* across the U.S., in Jamaica, London and Montreal —18 Clubs in all.
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MODERN SCIENCE DECIPHERS Ancient Love Letters
By R. DeWITT
MILLER FOUR THOUSAND years after a man wrote a love letter, a bookkeeper, a chemist, and a scholar got together and deciphered the missive of adoration.
Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But that’s exactly what happened. The story goes like this.
Ever since scientists began digging up the contents of Babylonian wastebaskets, they have been trying to work out some simple system for preserving and deciphering this ultrapersonal correspondence.
Of course, the secret of cuneiform writing on clay tablets, with its odd-looking, wedgelike marks, was discovered years ago, but that was just the beginning of trouble for the archaeologists. Read the rest of this entry »
They! Really! Like exclamation points!
Step into the wonderful world of AUTODYNAMICS!
Now! Swept-Wing Wagons with the OBSERVATION LOUNGE!
It unleashes a hurricane of power It breaks through the vibration barrier It is swept-wing mastery of motion Autodynamics — everything new from road to roof! New aircraft-type engines up to 310 hp! New Push-Button Torque-Flite that packs a silk-smooth 1-2 punch! New Torsion-Aire Ride that sweeps you into a “Realm of Silence.” You’ve never seen, felt, owned anything like it!
Who says station wagons are alike! Up comes Dodge with a string of swept-wing sweethearts just teeming with Autodynamic ideas. New ideas! Practical ideas! Fun ideas—like the Observation Lounge with Spectator Seat. Write for free descriptive folder in full color: Dodge Division, Dept. L, Box 1259, Detroit 31, Michigan.
SWEPT WING ’57 Dodge
Now! TWO different full-hour Lawrence Welk Shows each week on TV! “Dancing Party ” and “Top Tunes and New Talent”— ABC-TV.
Electronics Today
The “watchspring” above is actually a torsional delay line, a device used in such applications as computer work, trigger-delay circuits and radar range measurement. Developed at Bell Telephone Labs, it is made of Vibralloy, a ferromagnetic alloy. The spiral permits clear resolution of 10-microsecond pulses spaced 20 microseconds apart.
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It’s easy now girls, to type special characters!
Now Royal brings you an extra key—a 43rd key on your keyboard—a key that you can get with almost any combination of marks, characters or signs you want!
You may want your Bonus Key to be an exclamation point—or a division sign and an equal sign. For some businesses, it may be a paragraph mark and a section sign. In fact, it can be almost anything you order! Read the rest of this entry »
Moving Animals of the Circus and Race Track Overnight
How valuable race horses and circus animals are transported from one place to another in record time. Airplanes, ships, trains and huge motor vans are used to carry captive beasts to site of next performance.
“CLOSING in Chicago August 3rd. Opening in New York August 5th. Two weeks later, August 19th, opening in London………” So runs the schedule of a circus booking agent. And in these few scribblings in his notebook is entailed the most picturesque phase of circus life.
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How Your Glassware Is Made
By George H. Waltz, Jr.
TWO opposite extremes in manufacturing —meticulous handwork by skilled craftsmen and high-speed mass production performed by automatic machines—provide the wide variety of household glassware we use each day.
Up until 1903, all types of table glassware, ranging from tumblers to vases, were either hand-pressed or hand-blown by master artisans. Then came what is considered to be the greatest single advance in the 5,000-year history of glassmaking—the perfection of an automatic glass-blowing machine that put glassmaking on the production line.
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