Puncture Solutions
Magnets and small boys used to pick nails up off roads to avoid punctures in car tires
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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Graf Zeppelin Visit 1929
The visit of Graf Zeppelin to the U.S. invites comparison with ocean liners and despite successful aspects of the flight it is predicted that Zeppelins are no immediate threat to existing transport systems.
Diesel Engined Plane
Diesel-engined airplane
QUITE A FLURRY appears to have been caused at Langley Field, Virginia, at a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics when a Diesel-engined airplane owned by the Packard Motor Company of Detroit descended after a 650 mile flight. The Diesel engine is not a new development—hundreds of merchant ships, even ocean liners, [...]
Air Rivalry
THE FORD-GENERAL MOTORS rivalry has gone abroad. It has even ascended into the clouds. Let General Motors announce that its new automobile plant near Antwerp, Belgium, is nearly completed; Ford buys a site at Edgewater, N. J., at which to assemble Ford parts and load ships for the export trade, and his son Edsel bends [...]
The Perfect Home Part 3
A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 3 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL has played an extremely important part in this betterment for more than a generation and will continue to do so on an increasingly elaborate scale in the future. Of the influence already exerted by this [...]
The Perfect Home Part 2
A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 2 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
T0 THE dwellers in the Florentine villa the little half a twin house in Philadelphia would be awful to contemplate, and the same would be true to the young couple who find unbounded satisfaction in the efficiency housekeeping made [...]
The Perfect Home Part 1
A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
THERE are twenty-room villas on the lovely hillsides of Florence, Italy, that can be had for fewer dollars than the purchase price of half a twin house in the reclaimed swamp region of South Philadelphia. These villas have no [...]
