What is Dry Ice
Dry ice has already become a valuable refrigerant, and the reason is that its temperature stands some 112 below zero. Pound for pound it refrigerates fifteen times as much as common frozen water.
Puncture Solutions
Magnets and small boys used to pick nails up off roads to avoid punctures in car tires
Lindbergh Mail Problems 1927
COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH’S chief secretarial aide, Commander Fitzhugh Green, has made public the recently completed cataloguing of the popular flier’s mail.
Introduction of 40 Hour Working Week
THAT man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is a dictum of the Scriptures that has been pretty well abolished in America, where, in the main, he now acquires, not bread, but canned goods and package foods, by the oil on a machine. Mr. Thomas A. Edison is on record as [...]
The Outlook for Oil
THE Federal Oil Conservation Board has reported to Secretary Work that the supply of oil in the pumping and flowing well areas of the United States is about 4,500,000,000 barrels-a six years’ supply in theory, though it cannot be extracted within that period. Up to June last the 68,000 wells bored since 1866 have produced [...]
War Bread in Peace Time
BELGIUM and France might have been encouraged by the good news from
the nutrition chemists at Williamstown about the prospect of food from the air and sun, and also by the black case they made out against white bread. For the Belgian and French people have gone back on the war basis of “black bread” as [...]
Synthetic Sunshine
THE world need never go hungry as long as the sun shines. So the chemists have declared at the Institute of Politics, at Williamstown, Massachusetts; and since scientists say so, it must be so.
Food in the future, it appears, is to be obtained from the light of the sun and the nitrogen of the [...]
The Beginning of Commercial Aviation 1926
The indications are that the time has almost arrived when a beginning of commercial aviation will be successfully made in the United States. Postmaster-General Harry S. New has declared that the Government-operated air mail routes should very shortly become carriers of passengers and express parcels. The air mail, he says, can never be put on [...]
Peaches and Daddy – A Roaring Twenties Romance
On the evening of March 5, 1926, fifty-one year old Manhattan millionaire Edward “Daddy” Browning, waltzed through the doors of the legendary Hotel McAlpin, and into the life of a fifteen year old high school girl named Frances “Peaches” Heenan. Thirty-seven days later, with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in [...]
Wireless Radio in 1924
WIRELESS offers more scope for enjoyment than any other hobby. This is a big claim, but any one who has cultivated wireless knows that it is a claim that can be supported by facts.
The one outstanding feature of wireless as a hobby is that it can be pursued anywhere, at any time. In dry summer [...]
