What’s New IN ELECTRONICS
CB in the dark
CB can be a lifesaver—but it can also endanger your life if you’re fumbling with controls in the dark while driving. This GE Night Bright rig, however, is designed to be seen—the entire front panel lights up for a quick pick at dials when needed. It’s $149.95.
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New Sky-Writing Gun Flashes Advertisements on Clouds
Advertisements written on the clouds in letters 50 feet high is the latest publicity novelty, made possible by the invention of a sky-writing “gun” which directs the rays of a three million candlepower searchlight through a perforated metal slide, much like a magic lantern on a huge scale. The photo above shows Walter A. Meares demonstrating the gun, and the drawing shows how it operates. Smoke bombs manufacture clouds.
LIFE ABOARD BATTLEWAGON
By Lt. Com. John T. Tuthill, Jr.
As described in his book “He’s in the Navy Now”
THE alarm sounds for general quarters. Across the steel decks of the mighty new battle wagon the bluejacket races on the double to his gun station in a turret.
He takes his appointed place near the monster weapon and waits, tense and overwrought while the rest of the gun crew tumble into the turret. A sudden hush falls on the scene and he notices that the other sailors are poised as taut as stretched strings. It’s like playing football on the high school team, back in Tennessee. They’re a team waiting for the quarterback to call signals. Read the rest of this entry »
In 1982 Martin Amis, yes that one, wrote a book about video game culture called “Invasion of The Space Invaders”. In it he included a Steve Jobs quote from when he was still an Atari employee. It is classic Jobs:
“The computer,” says Atari’s Steve Jobs, “is one of the pinnacles of Western rational thought. They bring together physics, electronics, chemistry and mathematics; they bring logic, and philosophy, information theory, all that. And the people working on these computers possess a passion about the discovery and creation of something. It’s a passion that I have only seen matched in people pursuing what they consider to be the truth of their existence. It’s the same purity of spirit I have experienced in monks.”
Also check out his thoughts in this interview with Byte Magazine done when the Macintosh was introduced.
The hip young heroes of Atari, for instance, are convinced that they stand on the very brink of evolutionary breakthrough. The development of the video games is seen as roughly equivalent to mankind’s slow crawl from the primal broth of creation. Any day now, it seems, homo sapiens will once more be toweling himself down on the fresh dunes of tomorrow. “The computer,” says Atari’s Steve Jobs, “is one of the pinnacles of Western rational thought. They bring together physics, electronics, chemistry and mathematics; they bring logic, and philosophy, information theory, all that. And the people working on these computers possess a passion about the discovery and creation of something. It’s a passion that I have only seen matched in people pursuing what they consider to be the truth of their existence. It’s the same purity of spirit I have experienced in monks.” So perhaps the foul-mouthed, grimacing youths of the arcades aren’t just improving their geometrical and spatial awareness: what they’re really doing is searching for the meaning of life.
A new world of flight will begin in 1969. And Pan Am will begin it.
Yesterday, they were no more than dreams on a drawing board. Today, they’re on their way to reality.
And the reality will be a new world of almost unbelievable speed and size, comfort and quiet.
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Fun with an Old Spark Coil
By RAYMOND B. WAlLES
ALTHOUGH producing a spark only about three-eighths of an inch in length, an auto (Ford) spark coil can be made to produce a brilliant stream of sparks, about two inches in length, by interposing small flakes of graphite throughout the gap. This is easily accomplished by dusting flake graphite on a tacky varnish card through which are fitted two machine bolts or binding posts for contact with the secondary terminals. Read the rest of this entry »
New In Mechanics
A New Tricycle
• THEY call the device at the upper left an aerocycle. It is said to be far more comfortable to propel than a bicycle, and it seems far more stable than a lot of the odd European bikes which we have been illustrating in recent months. It suggests a motor tricycle, but is foot-driven.
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Smallest Safety Razor in World
THIS tiny gold-plated safety razor, which is complete in every respect, and in perfect working order, fits into a tiny snap case which is smaller than a half dollar. The set has been designed for ladies use.
Just How ‘Human’ Are Apes, Anyway?
From a Malayan jungle comes a strange story that may prove they’re more like us than not.
By Lester David
A SCIENTIFIC discovery of global importance may stem from the dark and wild jungleland of Northern Malaya. Here is the bizarre series of events which led to an exciting hunt now in progress: A native workman was tapping a rubber tree on an outlying plantation a few months ago when he felt a pair of strong arms encircling his waist. Startled, he whirled around and stared squarely into the grinning face of a creature half-ape, half-human, whose lips were drawn back over protruding fangs.
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a) This is just creepy.
b) Doesn’t her little daughter look a bit like a boy?
Can you compete with your daughter’s “Little Girl Look”?
Mrs Willis Peterson can. She keeps her complexion young-looking with pure, mild Ivory.
That purity and mildness, so good for daughter Mimi, is important to help grown-up skin look young… more important than perfumes, creams, deodorants, those extra ingredients in other soaps. More doctors recommend Ivory. 99-44/100% pure.® It floats.
The big girls soap for complexions with that little girl look.
Jet Iceboat
ROCKET specialists have developed what is probably the first piloted rocket-powered iceboat ever to undergo successful tests.
It resulted from a unique spare-time project carried out by Test Department personnel at Reaction Motors, Inc., Dover, New Jersey.
With an eye on cracking the world’s record of about 130 mph for powered iceboats, the men constructed a craft unlike any that has ever existed before.
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HEATHKIT H8
This 8-bit machine, by itself is as versatile as a lot of systems that include peripherals
Skeptical? For starters, because of its unique design the H8 is the only machine in its price class that offers full system integration yet, with just 4K of optional memory and using only its “intelligent” front panel for I/O, may be operated completely without peripherals! In addition, by using the features of its built-in Pam-8 ROM panel control program, the H8 actually allows you to dig in and examine machine level circuitry. Read the rest of this entry »
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