Archive for February, 2007

The Art of Finger Waving Hair

Finger Waving Techniques of the 1920’s and 1930’s
FINGER WAVING is possibly the newest branch of beauty culture, yet in its few years of existence it has reached an importance that few phases of the art enjoy. Very little has been written on the subject, and there is a great demand for instructive literature on finger [...]

Fashion or Comfort 1927

POIRET VS. THE WOMEN
Source: The Literary Digest for November 12, 1927
American women have seemed to stage a Waterloo for Monsieur Paul Poiret, the acknowledged king of the art of women’s clothes. He comes to us with complaints that they will not change their taste. Having put them in shorts, he now wants longs. But the [...]

House with Glass Walls 1929

House with Glass Walls Exhibited in Poland
AN UNUSUAL building that formed an interesting feature of an exposition staged recently at Poznan, Poland, suggests how dwellings of the future may appear if men eventually live in glass houses. Apart from a few posts and beams, the structure is almost entirely of glass. Built in an equal-sided [...]

1920’s Finger Waving

DEFINITION OF FINGER WAVING
FINGER WAVING is the art of shaping or moulding hair while wet into “s”-shaped curved undulations with the fingers and comb. These waves when dried without being disturbed will fall into beautiful deep waves. Finger waving differs from marcel waving in that there are no irons used on the hair. Not only [...]

Plane Repaired in the Air 1929

Repairs on the Fly
BOARDING a flying plane by a sixty-five-foot rope ladder and leaving via parachute was the unusual performance of Dale Dryer, airplane mechanic, when an endurance plane over Buffalo, N. Y., sent a call for repairs.
Heavy weather had damaged the stabilizer of the airplane, which had been aloft more than 190 hours. First [...]

Radical Aircraft Design 1929

Tailless “Flivver” Plane
V-SHAPED wings and the absence of any tail whatever are novelties combined in the latest German plane tested recently at Berlin. It demonstrates, as did the “windmill” autogiro plane, that radical ideas may still have a place in airplane design.
The tailless machine is shaped like an arrow, with the pilot’s cockpit in a [...]

Airborne Bacteria Survey 1929

Planes Hunt Bacteria
AN AIRPLANE hunt for bacteria was a recent novelty at Cambridge, England. Its object was to determine how plant and crop diseases are spread in upper air currents.
Several kinds of germ traps were used by the airplane that made the tests. Glass slides smeared with petrolatum, and test tubes and glass dishes filled [...]

Dornier Monster Seaplane 1929

Seaplane Up with 170 Passengers
WITH 169 persons numbered in the official list of passengers and crew, the Dornier monster seaplane DO-X recently made a flight of nearly an hour over Lake Constance, Switzerland. A four-year-old boy not counted in the records brought the total to 170 persons, by far the largest number ever taken aloft [...]