This sounds like a good idea. Would it work?
Machine Makes Instant Ice Cream
USING a new style freezer, freshly made ice cream can be produced in 40 seconds and delivered to a waiting customer.
The ingredients of the dish, after mixing are poured into the top of the machine where they are broken into a fine spray by an atomizer rotating at the speed of 3,000 turns per minute. The spray is thrown against the cylinder wall, which is maintained at a low temperature, where it freezes instantly.
Look Before You Eat
IF you’re a shy gourmet, constantly confused and embarrassed by super-duper menus in fancy restaurants, Keene’s English Chop House in New York City is the eating spot for you. They’ve discovered a way to show you exactly what each item looks like before you order it.
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The Miracle of ICE from HEAT
Ingenious application of simple principle of physics turns the flame of a gas jet into ice cubes in the non-mechanical refrigerator.
By ROBERT JOHN BAYER
TO THE average man there is nothing mysterious in mechanical refrigeration.
He knows that gases and vapors lose heat in expansion and that by a repeated cycle of compressions and expansions, confined gases can be cooled to an extent where they will operate as refrigerants. He knows that, in his domestic mechanical refrigerator, there is a motor and a pump which compress the refrigerant and that its repeated expansion in the coils in his box produces the cold that freezes his ice cubes and preserves his foodstuffs.
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This is the earliest electric hand drier I’ve seen. It’s even got a photocell to start it when you put your hands in. Though I must say the cigarette lighter is pretty offensive in our time.
Mechanical Novelties
• HERE is a model fire truck—at least, it looks like one. As a matter of fact, the English fireman pictured is on top of a full-sized water tower, and the picture taken from 50 feet above.
Ice Flows from Tap Like Water
• WITH ice a necessity, for so many comfortable beverages, a good deal of time is spent cracking and dishing it. The machine below for bars and fountains, is very handy. It grinds down ice with a 1/4-H.P. motor; and a glass held under the faucet is at once filled with a flow of ice.
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I wonder how you fill the tank…
Self-Heating Gas Flatiron Carries Its Own Tank
In camp or at home, away from gas stove and electric line, the housewife can do her ironing with a self-heating iron. Using gas under pressure, it has its own small tank attached, and its chromium-plated base heats evenly.
Outdoor Grill for Barbecues
A VOGUE which it is predicted will shortly be taking housewives by storm is the idea of installing a grill in the back yard where real coal tires can be kindled for the barbecuing of meats and other dishes which require special treatment such as only a coal fire affords.
Marketed by an enterprising firm of specialty manufacturers, this new grill is so mounted on a pedestal that it is waist high, and swivels so that it can be kept facing the wind.
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New Devices FOR THE BUSY HOMEMAKER
NEW COCONUT SHREDDER. This new fruit juicer, which has a detachable reamer, can be quickly changed into a coconut shredder. It is easily demounted for cleaning
INDIVIDUAL ASHTRAY. The tray, above, is of asbestos and is designed for individual use. When soiled it is thrown away. It can also be used as a coaster for glasses
REST FOR FLATIRON Illustrated in circle is a new flatiron rest that is attached to ironing board so iron slides onto it without the necessity for lifting it. One advantage claimed is that it leaves the board clear for work
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No Place Like Home… TO GET HURT
YOU face 266 times the danger of injury while reading a book at home, walking down the cellar stairs, or thawing a frozen pipe, that your neighbor does when he embarks on the evening plane for a distant city.
Unbelievable? At the risk of boring you, I shall prove my statement with a few figures.
This year, if the nation’s experience of former years holds true, fully 5,184,500 of our 125,000,000 men, women, and children will suffer accidents—from falling out of chairs to slipping down icy stairs— in their homes. Of the 561,370 or more passengers riding in transport airplanes, for a total distance of 49,000,000 miles, not more than 357 will be involved in seventy-three accidents, and only eighty-eight will receive so much as a scratch.
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I’ve never even considered sharpening my forks. What on earth were these people eating?
Inventors Improve Household Gadgets
A FOUR BLADED SCISSORS that may be adjusted to cut ribbons in widths ranging from a quarter inch to two inches is supplying the need of dressmakers for such an article. It is shown in action in upper right.
SHARP FORK TINES soon become dull. As a result a sharpener has been invented to maintain kitchen forks in perfect shape. As shown in upper left, the sharpener contains a cone of file edge ribs.
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New Refrigerator Has Built-in Radio Receiver
A REFRIGERATOR equipped with a built-in radio has been placed on the market. So popular was the first model that the manufacturer has made available a choice of several models in different sizes equipped with radio. This has been accomplished by having the radio mounted in the top of the refrigerator, and having the refrigerator constructed so that a top equipped with radio may be substituted for one without.
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