Archive for October, 2006

Pros and Cons of Getting a Tan 1930

The Good and Evil of Getting Tanned
BRILLIANT sunlight may do harm as well as good, says Dr. W. A. Evans in the Chicago Tribune. It is like any other powerful agent, and the idea that exposure to it is healthful, always and to any extent, is erroneous. He writes:
“I have been giving this matter some [...]

Hot-weather Food 1930

Hot-Weather Food
ADVICE about eating in hot weather is given as below in the London Daily Mail (Continental edition) by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, English surgeon and president of the New Health Society. He writes:
“If you want to derive the maximum health benefit from the summer weather you must pay particular attention to your diet. With [...]

Magnesium Salt 1930

The Salt of Old Age
A NECESSITY of life is the salt of sodium formed by its combination with chlorin. So well known is this, that when we talk of “salt,” we mean chlorid of sodium, altho there are dozens of other saltsâ€”some medicinal, some actively poisonous.
Now comes a French physician. Prof. Pierre Delbet of the [...]

Save Time with Dishwashing 1930

SCIENTIFIC DISHWASHING
If you clear away the dishes for an average American family and do the job in the customary American manner, you spend just 38 minutes and 8 seconds a day at the task, and the number of motions is precisely 1,954. This information, preliminary to bettering the American speed record, has been ascertained by [...]

Roller Bearings installed on Rail Cars 1922

TO ABOLISH THE HOT BOX
AN ANNOYING DETENTION for an hour or so by a “hot box” on a car is not calculated to make friends A for the railroad on which it may occur. Sufferers will welcome the promise of a Detroit inventor, Leo K. Stafford, that a new form of roller bearing devised by [...]

Antiseptic Advice 1921

HOW GERMS GET USED TO ANTISEPTICS
VARY YOUR ANTISEPTICS; otherwise the disease germs will get used to them. The distinguished French physician and bacteriologist, Charles Richet, has recently laid before the French Academy of Sciences a note on researches made by him, together with Henry Cardot, on acquired characteristics and heredity in microbes. He experimented, among [...]

Cooking While Driving 1930

COOKING WITH AUTO EXHAUST
Meals can literally be cooked on the run through the use of an automatic cooker described in Modern Mechanics (Minneapolis, June). We read:
“The cooker is mounted on the rear bumper of the motor tourist’s car, and an extension from the exhaust pipe connected up with it, as shown in the insert. The [...]

First Air-conditioned Trains 1930

ARTIFICIALLY COOLED RAILROAD TRAINS
Railroad trains can hereafter manufacture their own weather as they roll along, and a Pullman or a day coach in midsummer may then be cooler than an outside cabin on an ocean liner. An air-cleaning and cooling system for cars on passenger-trains has just been successfully tested by the Baltimore & Ohio [...]