Archive for March, 2008

Rotor Powered Ship Design 1925

WE SHOULD HAVE INVENTED THE ROTOR POWERED SHIP
WE SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED the rotor ship to be an American invention, says Dr. Edwin E. Slosson in Science Service’s Daily Science News Bulletin (Washington) ; first, because the principle involved is the same as our pitchers employ in putting the curve on a baseball; and, second, because [...]

Hoover Vacuum Cleaner

Advantages of the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner
You have to beat rugs to get them clean.
Nothing very new about that, is there? You’ve heard it a thousand times. If you’ve ever kept house you know it’s true.
Because it is true, it wasn’t enough that The Hoover should whisk up dust and lint from the surface of carpetings. [...]

Fish Oil as Fuel for Car Engines 1927

COMING: THE FISH-OIL MOTOR
The possibility of farming the sea for motor-fuel, after all the oil and gasoline are gone, is indicated by studies of the use of fish oils and other animal oils as motor fuels reported to the French Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by Messrs. Georges Lumet and Henri Marcelet. Says Dr. E. [...]

State of the art Sound System 1927

The New Orthophonic Victrola Record Player
THINK of having America’s greatest dance-organizations at your beck and call! Orchestras that would cost a small fortune to engage for a single evening! Through the new Orthophonic Victrola and the amazing new Orthophonic Victor Records, you can bring these selfsame orchestras right into your home. Exactly as you would [...]

Aircraft Traffic Rules 1927

TRAFFIC RULES FOR AIRCRAFT
LIKE THE RULES FOR AUTO DRIVERS are the traffic rules for aircraft just issued for the first time by the Aeronautics Branch of the U. S. Department of Commerce, reports H. C. Davis in The Popular Science Monthly (New York). Reading them, he says, it is easy to imagine the day when [...]

Causes of the Common Cold 1925

DOCTORS STUDYING THE COMMON COLD
SCIENTIFIC interest in a disease is apt to vary directly with its rarity, remarks The Lancet (London), so that minor maladies, and in particular the common cold, do not receive that attention which their prevalence would appear to warrant. Of recent years the common cold, however, has been studied more assiduously [...]

American Apartment Living 1925

A BRITISH ARCHITECT ON THE AMERICAN APARTMENT
JUST what the American apartment house is and how it fits in with our national social life is set forth in a report made by a British architect, G. Topham. Forrest, on “The Construction and Control of Buildings and the Development of Urban Areas in the United States of [...]

High Frequency Sound Waves 1925

SOUNDS TOO HIGH TO HEAR
SOUND-WAVES of too high a pitch to affect the ear have been produced and are likely to prove useful, we are told by an editorial writer in The Electrical World. Such waves, of course, are not sound in the strictest sense, for sound-waves are due to vibrations within the audibility range [...]