Yes, it’s true. Before becoming the spokesman for Big Tobacco, the Marlboro Man shilled for Big Oatmeal.
“WHERE THE MAIL GOES, CREAM OF WHEAT GOES.”
Besides being first, this is one of the coolest calculator watches I’ve ever heard of. You could actually use the time and date as variables in your calculations and it would continuously update the values based on the stopwatch or timer.
Hewlett-Packard advances in measurement and computation
The HP-01: a new kind of “time machine” you wear on your wrist.
New tools sometimes demonstrate their full significance only after people have invented a new range of uses for them. Their existence precedes their “reason” for existence. The HP-01 may be such a tool. It results from a timely fusion of two Hewlett-Packard technologies—precision time measurement1 and computation—and interrelates timekeeping with a computing element for the first time in a wrist-sized instrument.
Any resemblance between the HP-01 and a watch/ calculator stops inside the case. What makes the HP-01 a new kind of “time machine” is that it can compute time data to produce numerical perspectives in time. For example:
Electronic-Music Maestro
YOU’RE a radio repair man, why don’t you build me an electric organ?” If Burton Minshall heard that suggestion once, he must have heard it a thousand times from his wife, Madalene. As a matter of fact, Madalene nagged her husband so often about an electric organ that Burton decided to do something about it and end her nagging.
He began by saving odd parts like vacuum tubes, sockets, chokes and assorted pieces of wire and cable. He found an old reed organ in a junk shop which he bought for a song. Then he chopped it up and salvaged its physical movement. When he found another old, worn-out reed organ, he saved the five octave keyboard.
Giant Masks for Mardi Gras or a Party
ANYBODY has enough of the sculptor in him to mold giant masks like those worn in the photograph by beach beauties posing for inspection at the annual Mardi Gras held at Venice, California. True, the result of your first attempt at papier-mache sculpturing may not be a thing of beauty, but so much the better, since the exaggeration of features to the point of grotesqueness is usually the sculptor’s objective. You will bear me out in this statement, I think, when you have run your eye along the row of faces supported by the nine young ladies in the picture. These masks, by the way, are good models to shoot at in shaping something similar.
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How a Cash Register Works
CASH registers have come a long way since James Ritty built the first one in 1879. His invention was simply a register and nothing else—the keys moved hands on a clocklike dial to indicate the amount of a sale. Now the modern machines do practically everything but tie up the package.
Some of the bigger models used in department stores have six cash drawers, a separate one for each of six clerks. Dials tell the manager how much each clerk has sold and how many sales he has made. Other dials keep track of payments made on credit accounts and petty cash paid out.
The National Cash Register Co.’s model shown in the photographs, a standard one used in many kinds of businesses, has one cash drawer and dials that count sales and total amounts. It prints a sales record, gives a receipt, and stamps the sales slip.
LOCOMOBILE
THE UNUSUAL AND ESSENTIAL POINT OF LOCOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION IS THE STRICT LIMITATION OF THE NUMBER OF CARS BUILT
THE RESULT AIMED AT IS NOT QUANTITY BUT QUALITYTHE LOCOMOBILE COMPANY OF AMERICA
MAKERS OF FINE MOTOR CARS
“This is the story of an incredible product. So incredible that we know of no future consumer product that will have such a far-reaching technological impact on society.”
This is a ridiculously over-hyped ad for the Bally Home Library Computer, a fairly interesting if somewhat unsucsessful game console/home computer system. The $10,000 IBM 5100 computer they are constantly comparing it to was actually a full-on portable workstation with a keyboard, CRT, and tape drive that was capable of emulating an IBM mainframe. I am sure, however, that the Bally had better games.
One really interesting thing is the mention of the DIAL-A-BARGAIN® ORDERING SYSTEM:
“Our technicians have programmed JS&A’s main computer so you can use the Bally to access our computer directly when Bally’s dual tape decks become available. With a special module and cassette, you will be able to 1) call our computer on our toll-free number, 2) place an order, and 3) find out when it will be shipped. Since you communicate directly with our computer, your order is processed immediately and can be shipped within a few hours after receipt.”
I don’t know if they ever actually deployed this system, but if they did it would be an impressively early and complete eCommerce system.
Very interesting article by one of the original Hollywood stunt men. It certainly seems like this was an even more extreme profession in the early days:
“I had to wear the blood-spattered clothes in which Jack Silver—”Old Silvertip”—died the day before I did his stunt. It was a leap from a train crossing a trestle to the water beneath. Hesitating a fraction of a second, Silvertip had struck pilings on the far side of the stream and been killed. We must not hesitate.”
CHEATING DEATH for a LIVING
By BOB ROSE
I BELONG to a strange fraternity. After nineteen years, only six of the original 150 remain. We are the motion-picture stunt men.
I have seen most of the others die, one after another, in performing dangerous feats. Yet, during my own career I was never seriously injured in doing 560 parachute leaps, eighty plane changes in the air, 150 dives from heights above ninety feet, 180 automobile wrecks, riding horses over cliffs sixty-five times and staging fights atop ninety-foot ship masts and making the proper fall into the water so many times I have lost count. The pioneer stunt men who remain besides myself are Cliff Lyons, Yakima Canutt, Duke Green, Gordon Carveth and Frank Clark.
Well that’s pretty terrifying. I guess we know where the Nazis got the idea now.
Gold Teeth May Bring Prosperity
A GERMAN proposal to help end the world depression by saving gold teeth now buried and lost to the world when their owners die has been referred to editorially by the official Journal of the American Medical Association.It has been computed, the editors state, that something like three million dollars worth of gold was buried in Germany in 1929 with the 800,000-odd persons who died in that year.
It would be a simple matter to keep public records of persons whose teeth dentists liave filled with gold. When these people died it then might be the duty of some public official to extract the gold to increase the country’s gold stock.
New Propellerless Plane Flies Forward or Backward and Goes Straight Up
ANEW type of plane which can rise vertically and fly forward or backward, or hover in the air was successfully tested the other day in New York. It is the invention of William Rahn, right, in photo below, who constructed the craft with the collaboration of Gus Miller, left, formerly with the Zeppelin works in Germany.
The strange looking sky hopper is powered with a Wright Whirlwind motor and is said to be capable of a speed of 135 miles per hour.
While this is a news flash and no further details are at this time available, the principle seems to be sort of an “autogyro on the flat.” The wings are disposed about a central axis and apparently change their incidence so as to produce both lift and negative drag which hops the ship along. Possibly the tests were not successful, for nothing further seems to have startled the world from this source, although a plane of these characteristics would certainly set the world on its ear, so to speak.
How cool would it be to have a cover blurb on your book written by Einstein?
READ THE END OF THE WORLD
A Scientific Inquiry By KENNETH HEUER
Illustrated by CHESLEY BONESTELL
Can our world be totally destroyed? How? When? Can we do anything about it?
THE END OF THE WORLD explores the scientific possibilities among the ways the world actually can end:
• comet collisions
• moon, asteroid and star collisions
• the death of the sun
• the explosion of the sun
• atomic warALBERT EINSTEIN says: “Very good . . . rich in ideas and offers much solid knowledge in an easily digestible and very attractive form.”
KENNETH HEUER is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, former lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium, author of Men of Other Planets.
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