Mechanical Ride Thumber Speeds Hitch-Hikers Across Country (Feb, 1938)
Mechanical Ride Thumber Speeds Hitch-Hikers Across Country
CREDIT for their crossing of the continent in twenty-seven days is given by two Maine college students to the odd mechanical thumber which they used to hitch auto rides. A wooden hand with thumb extended is pivoted to a metal destination sign supported by a hollow pole. Pulling a wire operates a spring to jerk the hand in the approved hitch-hiker’s gesture.
Gee, only 27 DAYS!
Last time I hitched from SF to NJ it took 8 days and I went via Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
Trained roaches smuggle smokes, universe in a dish, watch-case phonographs……
Trained Cockroach smuggles smokes, nice hack – Link. Inventors on the air, it’s like “American Inventor” but on the radio from the 1930′s (and I bet a lot better) – Link. How the universe was formed (experiment!) – Link…….