For faster shopping: a Revolator
Cabs in this people-mover will whisk up and down on a continuous belt—something like a Ferris wheel. The Revolator is planned for a multilevel shopping center that’s being built in Morristown, N.J. Each cab will hold 150 shoppers, so a six-unit system could transport 40,000 an hour—far more than elevators or escalators. Read the rest of this entry »
The Roadside Stand Goes “High Hat”
It is easily seen that refreshment – seeking youngsters pick the place that catches the eye.
There is nothing like individuality to create lasting impressions. Here is a group of the once lowly roadside stands. Kinda ritzy, what?
In “going modern,” stand owners are overlooking nothing that will add distinctiveness to their business establishments. To the west goes the honor of pioneering in this movement.
Building a “Tarzan” Tree Hut
IF YOU want to experience the sensation of a wild ride with the airmail, select a night when the weather man predicts “whoopee,” don a helmet, goggles, leather jerkin, or what have you, and seat yourself in a swivel chair in the highest tree hut you can find. To help the imagination, take along a flash light and a book of airplane adventures. However, you won’t need these after the storm breaks. Boy! Feel those air bumps! You zoom to get above the storm. You roll! You side slip! Then, crash! Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Buries 6 Billions in Gold
Protected by water, gas and electricity.
Uncle Sam guards six tons of yellow metal from gangland and foreign foes.
by Ollie M. James
WITH utmost secrecy, Uncle Sam has buried the largest gold cache in history —192,000,000 ounces of the precious yellow metal worth $6,000,000,000. Where he has buried it, however, is no secret.
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Wouldn’t it be easier to just build the factory in the mountain and leave it there?
Bombproof Plane Factories ROLL INTO MOUNTAIN SIDE
Raid Shelters for Assembly Plants: A Swiss Inventor’s Solution to the Problem of Protecting Production AIRPLANE FACTORIES that literally run to shelter from raiding bombers have been invented by Antoine Gazda, noted Swiss armament designer, and erected at undisclosed places in Switzerland by the Pilatus aircraft concern as a national-defense precaution. A typical installation consists of a pair of twin assembly plants, normally standing in the open where their total of 360 workers enjoy natural sunshine and fresh air. Read the rest of this entry »
Haunted By His Ingenuity!
by Kip Blair
EVER spend a night in a haunted house?
Well I did!
While cold chills ran up my spine and the hair on my scalp seemed to rise and curl, I saw and heard things which only a ghost could explain. I saw doors open and close without a touch from human hands. I stood frozen in my tracks as a cut-glass humming bird raised its voice in macabre song. My hat and coat were hung on a hall rack which vanished into nothing the moment I turned my back. And, as I stood alone before a statue in the gloomy drawing room, I heard and saw that statue play, on a zither, any tune I chose to name! Read the rest of this entry »
Digging a Pirate’s Cave
By HI SIBLEY
WHILE excavating for a new house in the weed-grown lot next door, workmen unearthed a surprising maze of caves and trenches. Evidently they had been dug many seasons before because bushes and weeds were growing luxuriantly from the soil spread over the roofs. Considerable grading and no end of fancy language were required before the lot was in shape to build on. But it proved that a well-made cave is about as substantial a clubhouse as a boy can make. Read the rest of this entry »
SCHOOLHOUSE OF FUTURE TO BE LARGELY OF GLASS
The “little reel schoolhouse” of the future, according to Joseph Duke Harrison, New York City architect, may resemble a wedding cake on a platter. Recently he exhibited a design for a large circular structure with walls and most of its roof of glass. Read the rest of this entry »
Next – 100-Story Buildings
by BEVERLY BARNES
Buildings rising two hundred stories into the air are now within the realm of possibility, but with the present limitations they would be mere towers housing elevator shafts. Ingenious methods of vertical transportation, such as placing two elevators in one shaft as described below, may make the sky the limit.
HUNDRED story buildings, dwarfing the 88 story Empire State building, now rising on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, are visioned as a reality in the near future by business men of New York.
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Atlantic City Successfully Stages Indoor Football Game
ELECTRICAL engineers made possible the playing of the first indoor football game in the vast Atlantic City auditorium. The 20,000 thrilled spectators had no difficulty in enjoying the night game, thanks to the use of a white football and the powerful lighting system which assured the best visibility. A battery of more than 600 floodlight projectors, spaced 14 feet apart in the trusses arching across the curved ceiling, poured artificial light down on the large field.
Engineers transported 48 cars of dirt from the interior of New Jersey to provide an earthen playing field.
The Skyscraper Marathon
MODERN MECHANICS would nearly be required to issue hourly editions like a metropolitan newspaper if it were to present the newest bulletins on the skyscraper marathon championship constantly in progress in New York City. Before construction can be completed on the latest highest office building or hotel, plans will be announced for a building to eclipse the one under way and soon the championship belt will change hands again. Read the rest of this entry »
English Tea Room in Historic Old Tree Attracts Diners
IN THE days of highwaymen the old tree at Cobham on the London-Portsmouth road in England, was probably often used as a hiding place. Nowadays, however, the tree serves a more useful and pacific purpose, and is used as a tea room by many tourists every year, as shown in the photo at the right. The tea-table, which stands in the hollowed out trunk of the oak, is approached by means of a stairway which is built into the side of the tree. During the summer there is often lively competition among customers to be allowed to use this original tea room.
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