Archive for January, 2007

Geography Achievements in 1929

GEOGRAPHY ADVANCEMENTS 1929
by WILLIAM BOWIE
Chief, Division of Geodesy,
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Source: POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY - January 1930
EXPLORATIONS have been in progress or initiated during the year along a number of different lines. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd has been in the Antarctic, exploring the edges of the ice fields and, by air-plane, the interior [...]

Radio Advancements in 1929

RADIO ADVANCES 1929
by JOHN V. L. HOGAN
Radio Engineer and Inventor
THE growth of radio during 1929 has been not only in the improvement of technical processes and apparatus, but also in the organization and extension of its services and in the adaptation of radio principles to work in various other fields.
Public contact with radio is mainly [...]

Engineering Achievements of 1929

ENGINEERING ADVANCEMENTS 1929
Source: Popular Science Monthly - January 1930
by COLLINS P. BLISS, M.A.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
New York University
FORMAL opening of the eight-mile Cascade Tunnel, the longest railroad tunnel in the United States, ushered in the engineering year of 1929.
Outstanding engineering projects of the year include the great International Bridge at Detroit, longest suspension bridge in [...]

Advances in Aviation 1929

AERONAUTIC ADVANCES
by ALEXANDER KLEMIN, Sc.M.
Professor of Aeronautics,
New York University
ONEÂ ofÂ the most striking developments of the year in aeronautics has been the use of ethylene glycol in the cooling of aircraft engines. Since water boils at 212 degrees F., operating temperatures must be kept down to 180 degrees. With ethylene glycol an operating temperature of [...]

Obtaining a Patent 1930

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Automotive Advances for 1929

AUTOMOBILE ACHIEVEMENTS 1929
by ALFRED REEVES
General Manager,
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
WHILE the motor production for the year just concluded was climbing well above the five-million mark, and sales abroad were in the neighborhood of one million vehicles, scientific advances were underwriting stability for the motor industry.
In short, we cannot divorce the study of this industry from [...]

Take Your Own Car to Europe 1927

TAKING YOUR OWN CAR TO EUROPE” MADE EASIER
A LARGE travel for next year of American motorists taking their own cars to and from Europe is now assured, we read in a Montreal dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, by the new arrangements which have been made by the Montreal Motorists League in cooperation with [...]

Create Bobbed Hairstyles of the 1920’s and 1930’s

Create Beautiful Bobbed Haircuts
Learn how to create the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920’s - the beautiful bobs of the modern era. Learn how to cut and mould to the contours of the head and neck…the natural hair lines…and the facial features. Learn how to emphasize good features and minimize defects to create [...]

Kro-Flite Golf Balls 1927

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SPALDING has exploded the belief that a high-powered, long-distance ball cannot have maximum durability.
Without sacrificing a [...]

8 Reasons to use Checks in 1925

BANKERS SUPPLY COMPANY CHECKSÂ
How a checking account helps you get ahead - in 8 ways!
You’ve thought of a check-book as a convenience. . . Now learn how it furthers financial success
THE way to handle money efficiently, say authorities and successful people, is to determine in advance just where each dollar is going. Thus you spend [...]