DOES GRASS HOLD SECRET of HIDDEN POWER?
“BOSS KET”
Charles F. Kettering, known as “Boss Ket” to his fellow workers, is chiefly interested in finding the answers to unanswered questions. Two of the foremost that have puzzled him are: “Why is grass green?” and “Why can we see through a pane of glass?”
Head of the General Motors Research Corporation, “Boss Ket” devotes practically all his time to research, to discovering how it can be done when experts and formulas say “It can’t be done.”
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Turntable Swings Autos To Pumps In Rotary Gas Station
A NEW type of filling station that uses a turntable to whirl automobiles around a center service island was recently opened in New York.
The service island is set in the center of the turntable and consists of an enclosed office with three separate pumping units to dispense gasoline, oil, air, and water.
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Add an internet connection and this looks like a pretty spiffy place to live and work.
Trailer Combines Home and Office
Home and office are combined in a custom-built trailer just completed for an executive whose business keeps him touring the country. Equipped with desks, typewriter, and electric dictating machine, it also provides the owner and his wife with satinwood-furnished living quarters, an upper-deck observation lounge, a tiled bathroom with hot and cold shower, and a stainless-steel kitchen with a range burning bottled gas. Telephones connect office, power car, and galley; and an air-conditioning plant maintains year-round comfort.
Police Planes Take Off From Car to Hunt Down Crooks
FUGITIVE criminals stand little chance of escape when the Oregon State police take out after them. They are hunted down from the air by a plane that takes off from the top of an automobile, which then goes after the felons on the ground.
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Surface Speed vs. Fall
HIGH SPEED is the watchword of this age, more than of any other which has preceded it. The eighteenth century provided no means to attain a high speed of travel. Even the loftiest building from which one could jump would not give you the speed of arrival with which a motor car or a plane can now strike an obstacle.
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That car looks like it would tip over if you sat in the front…
It Might Fly If It Had Wings —or an Engine
AIRCRAFT-TYPE styling gem by the famed Ghia car body manufacturers, the Selene was created by the Italian company as a show car. The auto has no engine. Its purpose is to show what might be expected in car styling of the future. Two back seats, facing each other, give the back compartment a lounge-room effect, complete with bar (right). Sliding airplane-type steering wheel and double sets of instruments would allow the car to be driven from either side.
