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Can you think faster than this Machine? (Mar, 1958)

Can you think faster than this Machine?

Be careful before you answer. GENIAC® the first electrical brain construction kit is equipped to play tic-tac-toe, cipher and encipher codes, convert from binary to decimal, reason in syllogisms, as well as add, subtract, multiply and divide. Specific problems in a variety of fields—actuarial, policy claim settlement, physics, etc., can be set up and solved with the components. Connections are solderless and are completely explained with templates in the manual. This covers 33 circuits and shows how new ones can be designed.

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This Friden Calculator (Jul, 1954)

This Friden Calculator

Extracts Square Root Automatically with a touch of one key (first time on any desk calculator) Also provides all basic features which enable the fully automatic Friden Calculator—The Thinking Machine of American Business—to perform… more kinds of figure-work without operator decisions than any other calculating machine ever developed Send today for this Information Sheet describing features and abilities of the fully automatic Friden Square Root Calculator in detail.

Write FRIDEN CALCULATING MACHINE CO., INC., Dept. SA-3, San Leandro, California.

Friden BUILDS CALCULATORS IN A WIDE PRICE RANGE, IN EVERY SIZE, FOR EVERY FIGURING NEED
Friden sales, instruction and service available throughout the U.S. and the world,

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Guy De Maupasant – KING of All Short Story Writers (Feb, 1909)

Guy De Maupasant – KING of All Short Story Writers

For the first time ever presented American readers the ONLY COMPLETE Edition, absolutely unexpurgated, in English of this great French writer, translated from the Original Manuscripts by linguists of literary distinction. Wonderful Critical Preface by Paul Bourget, of the French Academy.

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Photobooth – Up to $600 WEEKLY (Apr, 1946)

Up to $600 WEEKLY

with new 5 min. photo equipment. No experience necessary. Write:

FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION
Dept. K 1012 N.W. 17
Oklahoma City, Okla.

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How to Breathe (Feb, 1909)

How to Breathe

For Health, Strength and Endurance
Send for my 64 page illustrated book

Lung and Muscle Culture

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MENNEN’S BORATED TALCUM TOILET POWDER (Feb, 1909)

After a childhood of being bombarded with countless advertisements for Speed-Stick the first, and only, thing that pops into my head when I see that brand name is the not at all subtle “Byyy Mennen” jinglette.

MENNEN’S BORATED TALCUM TOILET POWDER

“Baby’s Best Friend”

and Mamma’s greatest comfort. Mennen’s relieves and prevents Chapped Hands and Chafing.

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WE DELIVER! DISK DRIVE REPAIR YOU CAN COUNT ON (May, 1982)

90 days is fast turnaround? Maybe if they didn’t have women sprawled out on their workbenches they would be faster…

WE DELIVER! DISK DRIVE REPAIR YOU CAN COUNT ON

90 DAY GUARANTEE
FAST TURN AROUND

Data Tech/Reliance, Inc.
DISK DRIVE REPAIR & ALIGNMENT CENTER

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STRANGER THAN TRUTH (Sep, 1936)

Isn’t the idea that fiction is stranger than truth kind of the default assumption?

STRANGER THAN TRUTH

AMAZING, ASTOUNDING, FANTASTIC STORIES THAT PROBE THE FURTHEST REACHES OF THE IMAGINATION — BY A. MERRITT, OTIS ADELBERT KLINE, RAY CUMMINGS AND OTHERS

in the October
THRILLING WONDER STORIES

15c AT ALL STANDS — — EVERYWHERE

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BINARY CIRCULAR SLIDE RULE (Dec, 1954)

CALCULATIONS of all kinds can be easily solved on the BINARY CIRCULAR SLIDE RULE

This rule will quickly solve the simplest as well as the more difficult problems involving calculations in Arithmetic, Algebra and Trigonometry.

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As Automatic.. AS JUNE SUNSHINE (Feb, 1931)

I live in Portland, OR. There is nothing automatic about June sunshine here. We apparently average 6 clear days for all of June.

As Automatic.. AS JUNE SUNSHINE

As automatic as sunshine, more automatic than your water supply or your electric light, Bryant Gas Heating is so effortless that you can forget your furnace room for weeks at a time, yet enjoy ample, dependable heat, automatically delivered, automatically controlled.

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