Ice-Cream Bars Are Made Easily with Dipping Outfit
Less expensive than some other equipment on the market, a new ice-cream bar maker has several desirable features. One is a spreader that holds the bars, with the flat, wooden sticks inserted, in position for dipping in chocolate or similar coating mixture. After dipping, the bars are hung on a rack to dry, the spreader and dipping apparatus being arranged for this purpose.
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Modern Wonders of an Ancient Art
By H. W. MAGEE
Part I PORCELAIN enamel is older than history and yet—in its modern applications—it is as new as tomorrow. Fifteen centuries or more before the dawn of the Christian era, someone heated a batch of minerals and produced a glasslike substance which he found could be fused to metal with the aid of heat. In the next two thousand years or so man utilized this knowledge mainly to produce beautiful cloisonne vases, medallions, jewelry and other ornaments.
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LITTLE GIANTS of INDUSTRY
IF YOU were to select the most remarkable characteristic of modern industry, probably the first thing that would come to your mind is size—huge buildings, gigantic machines, massive ships, great airplanes, bulky trucks, mammoth dams, tall derricks, towering excavators, long trains. Man himself seems puny and weak beside his creations.
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SLICING BREAD by Machinery
New Machine Delivers Fresh Bread Loaves Ready Sliced.
Housewives can now buy fresh bread all sliced and ready to serve. Slicing machine is capable of turning out more than 1,200 loaves hourly to be packed in shallow carton and wrapped in waxed paper. Inventor overcame many difficulties in perfecting device.
ONE of the newest conveniences for the housewife and dining place operators, and one of the most far reaching, is the recently introduced automatic bread slicer invented by O. F. Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa.
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LINOLEUM- Another Industrial “Accident”
An inventive mind and a can of paint left open by accident were the co-founders of the great linoleum industry. Its manufacture is as strange as its origin.
THROUGH all the centuries man’s progress is reflected in the homes he has kept, and is readily traceable in the floors of those homes. Prehistoric men paid little attention to floors, but when the long arm of the Caesars reached out into the Orient, they found floors of inlaid ebony, teakwood, mosaic and pearl, but only in the homes of the rich.
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Maker Of The Maestro’s Wand
It started as a joke, but Isaac Cary turned it into a business. Whether it’s symphony or swing, the odds are heavy that the leader of the band is using one of Gary’s custom-made batons.
by Lester David
APPLAUSE beats in waves through vast Carnegie Hall as the spotlight picks out the frail little man advancing to the conductor’s stand. He bows deeply and faces the orchestra, arms outstretched. In his hand he holds a slender, white, beautifully proportioned baton. A hush settles on the auditorium … he taps his stand twice, sweeps his baton upward and music flows into the hall. Arturo Toscanini is interpreting a master.
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How Photographic Film Is Made
“Mustard” plants and chemical “noodles” contain the elements that must be put into film base and emulsion before your camera can do its work.
PHOTOGRAPHY has wedged its way into our daily lives so securely that we do not view it with the alarm and mysicism people did when Daguerre announced the first successful photographic process one hundred years ago, in 1839. We have come to expect and accept the seemingly impossible with little exhibition of surprise or enthusiasm. This is, in many ways, unfortunate, for the real joy of science comes from knowing her intimately—knowing how she can make so few characters play so many parts, disguised outwardly but working inwardly to the same objective.
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According to Henry Ford, the future of American industry is all about Soy beans. Actually, he wasn’t too far off, I’m typing this on my Apple Soybook Pro.
HENRY FORD Discusses America’s INDUSTRIAL FUTURE
In this exclusive interview Henry Ford predicts that the farm will be the scene of industrial development. He points the way to success for today’s inventors and looks upon chemistry as the link between a more prosperous agriculture and industry.
by GLENN F. JENKINS
HENRY FORD, the industrial genius of modern times, sees industry entering a vast, wide-open era of experiment, invention and discovery. He believes that in the next twenty-five years man will achieve results overshadowing the dreams of today.
This new trend has already begun under the stimulation of Henry Ford’s inventive mind. He is convinced that the farm will be the scene of great industrial development and that chemistry will be the agency by which these changes will be evolved.
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Behind the Razor Blade
by Robert W. Gordon
TAKE a look at any group photograph of half a century ago. No matter what their station in life, the faces of the men you see there will be adorned with luxuriant crops of whiskers. Some were clipped plain, with the simple dignity of a cemetery hedge. Others were brushed and trimmed in weird and wonderful designs, like decorations on a wedding cake.
Now take a look along the street—any street in almost any country. You see a new race of men entirely. You can really see their faces, and they are bright and clean. No more of this hiding behind the bush. Their jaws are as bare of foliage as an oak tree in January.
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WHERE HEALTH IS PUT UP IN BOTTLES
SIX OUNCES of grass juice. Prescriptions such as that are all in the day’s work for Abraham G. Balfour. Fresh bottled grass juice, which is said to vie with spinach as a source of calcium and vitamins, is but one of more than 700 varieties of fruit and vegetable juices and their blends which he produces in his Englewood, N. J., laboratory. His unique factory is running twenty-four hours a day, and shipments of choice garden and orchard products from as far away as California arrive at Englewood on a daily schedule.
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Off the “Platter” and into Your Home
WHEN a voice from your radio says: “This is an electrical transcription,” don’t turn to another station, for what you are about to hear is one of the wonders of modern broadcasting. Last year the customers of one of the leading makers of electrical transcriptions for broadcasting purposes paid $30,000,000 for the records and station time.
It is a big business, this offspring of radio. Every broadcasting station in the United States, without exception, uses these “platters.” Many of the smaller stations depend on them for a majority of the time they are on the air each day.
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Machine-Made “Stars and Stripes” Replace the Flags of Betsy Ross’ Day
Uncle Sam’s Factory Turns Out Nation’s Colors
IT is a far cry from the handmade flag of Betsy Ross to the production of flags by machinery, and yet the cradle of the “Stars and Stripes” has remained in Philadelphia since the symbol of our nation was born there 145 years ago. The traditional scene of this woman patriot patiently fingering the colors of a new nation, has shifted to the operation of scores of machines, increasing production a thousandfold.
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