Interesting People in the American Scene
Governor.
ROBERT OSCAR BLOOD is one public official who looks after the physical as well as the political needs of his constituents. Besides being Governor of New Hampshire, he is a practicing physician, and often keeps a committee waiting in the state capitol at Concord while he dashes over to the hospital to deliver a baby or perform an appendectomy. Read the rest of this entry »
1927 Car Goes Streamline
IN KEEPING with streamline design, Bernard Pica of 470 South Street, Quincy, Mass., built an advanced streamlined body for his 1927 Chevrolet. The chassis is still “pure Chevrolet” but the body is Pica’s own adaptation of the “tear drop” styling. Made of aluminum, the body cost about $100 for materials and required four months to build.
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The Amazing Motor That Draws Power From the Air
Ben Franklin invented it 223 years ago. Now we’re finding overlooked possibilities in the electrostatic motor.
By C. P. GILMORE / PS Executive Editor.
and WILLIAM j. HAWKINS / PS Electronics Editor.
Would you believe an electric motor made almost entirely of plastic? That can run on power transmitted through open air? And sneak free electricity right out of the earth’s electrical field?
At the University of West Virginia we saw a laboratory full of such exotic devices spinning, humming, and buzzing away like a swarm of bees. They are electrostatic motors, run by charges similar to those that make your hair stand on end when you comb it on a cold winter’s day.
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Paper Matches Made in the Shape of Advertiser’s Product
A LARGE American match manufacturer has recently advanced an idea which will greatly increase the advertising value of its product. These small books of paper matches which are commonly given away when you purchase your smokes are the basis of the idea.
Instead of the ordinary paper lucifers, the matches are shaped like the article which they advertise. The stunt has its limits, however, as bass drums and pretzels will be hard to imitate with match sticks.
I’m pretty sure this was just designed by some time travelling Game of Thrones fan.
LIQUID AIR to RECLAIM LAND from NORTH SEA
ONE of the most astounding engineering feats of recent years—that of building a wall of solid ice with liquid air around a large portion of the North Sea—is now under consideration by German engineers. Adding thousands of acres to the continent of Europe, the ice dam will serve as a breakwater to enable the engineers to construct a permanent inner dike of concrete, and then proceed to fill the inclosed space with earth sucked up by a dredge from the bottom of the sea outside the ice wall, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Read the rest of this entry »
Probe I
Ford’s latest idea is Probe I— a concept car for the late 1980′s. The sleek surface and design cut air drag to 0.25— lower than any American car on the market. Projected fuel economy: 39 mpg at 55 mph. For long trips there are stereo, TV, and computer games.
This is the first example I’ve seen of a red-light camera.
“Hit-And-Run” Victim Devises Camera Trap For Motorists
AN AUTO-FLASH device designed to snap photos of autos that run past red lights, into safety zones, and past stop streets, has been invented by William Running, a Detroit, Mich., electrician. A personal experience as a “hit-and-run” victim caused him to design the device.
For safety zones, the machine consists of a lighted sign set in the pavement which depresses when an auto passes over it. This actuates a camera set up on the curb so that it snaps a photo of the rear license plates of the offending auto.
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A Short History of Computing
A few weeks ago a master’s degree candidate in computer science confided, with an embarrassed laugh, that he had never seen a computer. His experience with the machines of his chosen vocation had consisted entirely of submitting punched cards through a hole in a wall and later getting printed results the same way. While his opportunities to see equipment are restricted due to his student status, there are also thousands of working programmers and analysts using large scale equipment who have no contact with existing hardware and will never have a chance to see any first or second generation computers in operation. Read the rest of this entry »
Picture fuddling by computer
Can you identify this face? It’s a well-known President who freed the slaves and was shot in Ford’s theatre. Still stumped? Try viewing it at arm’s length, or squinting, or jiggling the page rapidly. This picture represents a Bell Labs experiment to learn the least amount of visual information a picture can contain and still be recognizable—of some concern to designers of Picture- phones. Here a computer has riven a portrait into 200 squares, each rendered in an even tone of gray along an intensity scale from one to sixteen.
A BOY’S DREAM COME TRUE
Give a boy a tree house and he can have all the adventures of a safari in his own backyard.
For adventurous little boys, a tree house offers many delights. It is a hideaway, a place to store secret treasures, a camping-out spot. From it one can see without being seen. It can be reached by ladder only and it is relatively inaccessible to adults. Read the rest of this entry »
I had a similar device that would pour water on me when I refused to get up for school. I called her Mom.
Device Awakens Sleeper With Water In The Face
NOT even an alarm clock and radio will awaken Richard Hess, 21-year-old senior in Columbia College, Columbia University, so he rigged up this odd contraption to overcome his reluctance to get up at 7 a. m.
When the alarm clock sounds, the paste pot weight is released thus turning on the radio and tipping a glass of water perched on a plank over his head, pouring the contents in his face. The glass is tied to the plank so that it will not fall in the sleeper’s face and possibly neutralize the refreshing affect of the water. The device starts to operate when a loop tied around the alarm clock key slips off as the key turns.
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