THE SMALLER THE BETTER: NEW DIMENSIONS IN CONVERSATION
In the eye of a needle above is a transistor switch that can turn on or off in ten billionths of a second. It is an example of the micro-miniature devices that Western Electric makes today for the new Electronic Switching Systems now being put into service in the Bell telephone network. Read the rest of this entry »
Cheating Davy Jones of Three Hundred Ships
By H. H. DUNN
Captain Whitelaw, dean of salvors, wrested nearly 300 ships worth $50, 000,000 from savage seas. He here tells of many ingenious means of raising ships and the dangers encountered.
MORE than sixty years ago, a boy of twenty, sitting on the rim of a dry-dock in San Francisco Bay, saw a small vessel rammed and sunk only a few hundred yards away. He had been working about a year as a carpenter on the drydock, putting on patches, stopping leaks, doing rough work with hammer and nails and saw. Read the rest of this entry »
Surgical Boots Help Baby Elephant Support His Weight
THIS TINY elephant at right—he is tiny for an elephant—is the baby of the Kensington Gardens Zoo in London. At the time the photo was taken he weighed close to 300 pounds and his legs were not yet strong enough to permit him to gambol about the zoo in healthy elephant style. Read the rest of this entry »
For easy-reach cooking and cleaning New Frigidaire Wall Ovens with drop-leaf doors!
There’s more to these new ovens than meets the eye!
• Spatter-Free Broiling!
• Automatic Cooking Controls!
• Holiday Meal Capacity!
• Double and Single Oven Models!
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Passengers’ Luggage Handled Speedily by Monorail Line
HANDLING package freight to and from ocean-going vessels near Hamburg, Germany, is done in an extremely efficient and satisfactory manner. A unique monorail line carries bundles, trunks, etc., over an extensive tract of land and water to the passenger depot.
The cars are drawn by a gasoline motor along a rail suspension line at a rapid rate of speed. By this means, passengers’ luggage is quickly transported to and from a ship. Steel ribbed girders support the rail.
The Wizard of Odyssey Reveals The Key to Greater Challenge.
The Keyboard!
It makes the fun go further with Odyssey2 than any other video game. The keyboard lets you program mazes and grids. Type numbers and letters on the screen. Increase skill levels. It even lets you change opponents and fields of play!
And only Odyssey2 offers—The Master Strategy Series! Each game comes with its own game board. You use it to plan your strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
Guggenheim Safety Planes Feature Controllable Wings
By MAJOR R. W. SCHROEDER
Editor’s Note: Major R. W. Schroeder, head of the Curtiss Flying Service in the mid-west, former chief test pilot of the army, and former world’s altitude record holder, was one of the contestants in the $100,000 safe aircraft competition initiated by the Guggenheim Fund. He set a world’s altitude mark several years ago in a sensational flight in which his plane fell five miles out of control after the major’s eyeballs had frozen. Read the rest of this entry »
Oil Men Sink Curved Wells to Undersea Oil Deposits
INSTEAD of erecting wharves out over the water to drill for oil beneath the ocean floor, operators are now setting up their derricks on the shore and drilling out to the submarine deposits. When the vertical hole reaches the depth at which the drillers wish to alter the course seaward, they fill the hole to the branching off point and set a whipstock in place to divert the drill outward at an angle, as shown in the drawing above. This whipstock is a steel cylinder with a smooth angular upper face off which the bit slides on its new course, which it maintains with considerable consistency.
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