Vacuum Cleaner Brushes Clothes
LOCATED in a place handy to the passing public, this new invention is proving a satisfactory substitute for hand brushes. The device, shown in photo below, operates like a vacuum cleaner. Users drop a coin into a slot, which starts the machinery working. The hand nozzle fixture, rubbed lightly over the surface, picks up all dirt particles from the garment.

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IT’S NEW!

ARMY “MULE,” new four-cylinder cousin of famous Jeep, is first military vehicle to carry load greater than its own weight. It can climb 72 per cent slope on rough terrain.

FRENCH STYLE taxi hailer will help do away with noise in Paris. City fathers are trying to quell unnecessary bedlam.

GOGGOMOBIL is tiny new four-seat, rear-engined German rig which gets claimed 61.4 miles to gallon, 60 mph top speed.
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THEY KEPT THEIR G-eyes OPEN

While on duty with the Armed Forces, these Gl’s picked up ideas that meant money and careers for them in later years.

By Lester David

DID you ever think of the Army as a source for million-dollar ideas? And not for the mammoth corporations, either, but for the average working Joe in uniform? Well, it’s incredibly, and very happily, a fact.

It was a cold, dismal mid-morning at Wright Field in Ohio. Lieutenant Lloyd Rudd straightened up from his laboratory workbench in the engineering division, stretched and called: “Hey, Sarge, how’s about a cup of hot Java?”
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Wacky Hollywood even makes an entertainment feature of an oil well pump, ordinarily an ugly but practical tool. It’s at a children’s park and they love it, for as it goes up and clown it wiggles its ears and opens its mouth— and pumps 75 barrels of oil every day, too.

NEW in SCIENCE

Ping-Pong Gun fires balls noisily at a terrific rate of speed by using air pressure. Newell Mfg. Company, Lowell, Mich.

82 Washes did this to milady’s dress. Ordinary starch was used on left side while new Perma Starch was used on right, doubling life of cotton. U. S. Rubber Co.. N. Y. C.
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Goat’s Milk Fudge

WHEN E. D. DeWitt retired to Florida in 1948, he had “no intention of going into business. He liked goat’s milk so he bought three Nubian nannies. One day, just for the heckuvit, he made some fudge from the milk. It tasted good, so he put up a sign, advertising it. Now tourists buy it up as fast as he makes it.

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Science Finds Amazing New Uses for Sound

by DR. SERGIUS P. GRACE

Assistant to Vice President, Bell Telephone Laboratories As told to J. EARLE MILLER Thanks to astounding discoveries made recently in the field of sound, you will soon be able to talk around the world, deaf mutes will hear, and communication in battle areas will be revolutionized. The amazing inventions which make such feats possible are described in this article.

IN A recent lecture on the new marvels being developed in the Bell Laboratories I placed my finger against the ear of one of the members of the audience, and he “heard” music and speech, though not a sound was audible on the stage.
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Handy Lighter Built in Cane
ONE of the novel and striking features of the recent British industries exhibition was a walking stick equipped with a gasoline lighter for the convenience of smokers. The lighter is built into the handle of the cane, as photo below shows, and is brought into action by pressure on a small button. Such a device proves a great boon, for it saves considerable fussing around for a lighter or a match. The device is filled with gas from a small opening beneath the cover.

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Calling All Inventors

Got a new gadget? Rochester’s industries want to see it. They may even make it and market it for you.

By Alfred Eris

THERE’S a man in Rochester, N. Y., whose job it is to help you make a million dollars! His name is Harold S. Rand and he’s the Deputy Commissioner of Commerce for that city.

What’s the catch? Naturally, there’s a reason for it—but it’s certainly not a hidden reason. It’s simply part of a scheme to keep Rochester’s industries going at capacity.
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PEOPLE DON’T DIE -THEY COMMIT SUICIDE

BY BERNARR MACFADDEN

NATURAL deaths are rare. It looks as though John D. Rockefeller, Sr., will have a chance to die as nature intended. The last twenty-five or thirty years he has adhered rigidly to what we might call the laws of life. He has prolonged his life to the end that nature intended for all of us.

We have heard of the saying, “Digging your grave with your teeth,” which, in a way, refers to overeating.
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The THREE DECK CITY is COMING

by UTHAI VINCENT WILCOX

THE three-deck street is coming. Our sons and daughters living in the great cities of tomorrow will have become accustomed to three levels. If they go to the heart of the city on rail they will be on one level. If they take their motors they will speed along on a street level designed exclusively for wheeled vehicles, and if they seek to walk about the heart of the metropolis then they will confine themselves to the foot level.
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121 Rotary Wheels Carved in Gold

ONE hundred and twenty-one cog wheels of solid gold, all turning as one, is one of the latest novelties in the mechanical line. These golden cogs were made for the Rotary clubs of California at an expense of several thousand dollars, the gold alone being worth $1500, without the workmanship, which involved an enormous amount of en-graving. The wheels are each engraved with the name of some city in the United States and Canada.