DIVING SPIDER PLANE To HURL Big BOMB

AVIATION’S newest wartime l threat is rumored to be a plane, tiny enough so that a fleet of them will fit into a dirigible, which, when released, will guide huge, two-ton bombs to within a few hundred feet of their objective.

Like giant spiders clutching bottle flies, they will zoom into power dives, each carrying tons of destruction.

Fantastic? Not if recent experiments are carried to their logical ends. The use of the power dive as a means of attack is not new.

When attached to a carrier, the bomb becomes an integral part. It is released only when a direct hit is a certainty. After releasing the bomb, the plane can return to the carrier or act as a interceptor fighter.

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How to Put a Ship in a Bottle

Making a full-rigged model that folds so as to enter the neck

By E. ARMITAGE McCANN

“HOW did it get there?” is the question always asked when a ship model in a bottle such as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 is placed on exhibition. You will observe the curious minded examining the bottom of the bottle to see where it was cut to admit the ship, or they will even inquire if the bottle was blown around the ship. But there is no fake about it; everything goes through the neck. With patience and determination, anyone can make this curious and always mystifying type of model.
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“The significance of higher data communications rates has grown with the deregulation of the communications industry because communication costs are expected to rise. Gamma Technology is claiming that an eightfold increase in data rate (from 1200 bps to 9600 bps) will save several thousand dollars a year if 160K bytes of information are transmitted daily across the United States. Savings would be even greater if data were transmitted overseas.”

Sitting here on my 50 mbs internet connection I’m going to say that guess was a bit off. The total amount data they are talking about transmitting over a year is less than the size of the images in this post.

I also particularly liked that the searches on the third page are for “Computer, Privacy Surveillance, NSA and Tapping”. Just a hunch but I’d guess that the person who made that screenshot probably later joined the EFF.

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Trends in Telecommunications

On-line search software and faster modems for PCs

by John Markoff

Now that the personal computer (PC) has won the battle for office desktop space, software developers are turning their attention toward programs that combine the storage capacity of mainframe computers with the local processing power of PCs. Although mainframes offer PC users access to huge on-line databases of specialized information, how to get to the information and bring it to the PC in a usable form is another question entirely.
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Life Guard Speeds to Drowning Swimmer on Motorized Surfboard
SURFBOARD riders won’t have to depend on outboard motors or speed boats to pull them over the water in the future. Below is shown a motorized surfboard scooter recently invented in Australia. The small motor in the rear furnishes the power and also sets the board at the proper angle in the water. A good machine for life guards.

Where are you going for lunch? Canada.

We know it sounds improbable, but if you did fly to Montreal just for lunch, you’d have the lunch of your life. French-Canadian cuisine is both delicious and unique. Many recipes date back to 1646.

For example, at Chez la Mere Michel, you’ll likely be treated to some fabulous Provencal specialty, such as Medaillon Provencal — beef filet marinated in wine and served in a sauce of tomatoes, cucumber, eggplant and herbes. At Chez Pierre, it’s Lyonnaise cuisine, and at Etche Ona (“The Good Place”), the menu is mostly Basque (French-Spanish). Read the rest of this entry »

Triple Magnifier for Jewelers

HERALDED as the first improvement in the familiar jeweler’s magnifying eyeglass in 50 years, this triple lens magnifier has been developed by a Hollywood inventor. The lenses are hinged on top, can be used independently or in combination. Result: choice of magnifying powers of two, five, and eight times respectively.

Entire outfit fits over ordinary spectacles.

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Workbench Award Winners…

THE winner—all of ‘em! The six projects shown on these pages were the best Workbench Award entries received during the month. A five dollar check and a Workbench Award Certificate is being mailed to each winner for his prize project.

If you are a workshop fan then why not let us know what you’re doing? Send us a picture plus a letter describing your project and if your entry is one of the monthly winners you’ll receive our check and Workbench Award Certificate, which incidentally, is suitable for framing. If your entry is not one of the published winners you still may win our handsome Certificate of Merit. Read the rest of this entry »

Navigation Computers have progressed a wee bit since this was published.

New Navigation Computer Solves Flight Problems

SIMPLIFYING aerial navigation problems

to a point never before possible, an entirely new type navigation computer has been perfected by engineers and adopted as standard equipment by many pilots on the nationwide air travel systems.

Designed to provide an immediate answer to navigation questions the pilot must face during the course of a flight, the new instrument combines features of a slide rule with a series of special scales in the form of three celluloid discs which rotate around a common center.
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Machines Help Map Makers

Topographical maps, many of which are sold to the public for as little as ten cents each, are made on specially designed machines costing $30,000 each. There are only three of the machines, which are known as aerocartographs, in the country and they are operated by the U. S. Geological Survey Bureau in Washington, D. C.

THERE’S MONEY TODAY IN ART

THIS is the day of the artist. His skill is sought wherever design and color are important factors in the sale of merchandise.

Furniture, rugs, wall hangings, household utensils, wearing apparel, jewelry, art gifts, lamps, automobiles — nearly everything sold today depends, on design and color to attract the eye of the purchaser. Drawings for advertisements in newspapers, magazines, catalogs, folders, posters, display cards and many other media call for the skill of the modern artist. Consider the number of drawings in this magazine alone! Art is a necessity in modern business. Read the rest of this entry »

LITTLE INDY 500

Youth car bed. Share the excitement and delight with your child by building this cute shiny bright unique Indy youth bed. Just like the big 500 racers. Easy to build using in. plywood for complete body and wheels. Frame is 88 in. long X 44″ wide. Mounted on casters to move anywhere in the room. Send $2.50 for step by step plans and material list.

HAMMOND BARNS, Dept Ml 5, Box 39027 Indianapolis, Indiana, 46239.

It’s amazing how the author can detail the way De Beers exploits, harms and kills it’s workers while creating an artificial monopoly and not let a hint of criticism into his voice.

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I Rode on a HIGHWAY OF DIAMONDS

MI’s correspondent visits a fantastic land of precious jewels in South-West Africa.

By Henry Albert Phillips

WARNING!

You are approaching diamondiferous territory. TURN BACK! Trespassers are liable to suffer bodily harm, a fine of 500 pounds or five years in gaol.

De Beers Consolidated, Ltd.

THAT’S the sign which greeted me a couple of miles outside of Luderitz in South-West Africa. Inside the ominous -looking gates was the diamond country— soil and sand laden with precious gems like almonds in a Hershey bar. I had imagined what the land of diamonds was like and I was about to see for myself at last.
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