Archive for the 'Business' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

Real Estate Advice 1927

EIGHT MAXIMS FOR REAL ESTATE OPERATORS
HOW to make money handling real estate was recently comprest into eight maxims by W. Burke Harmon, a well-known New York realtor, and reported as follows by the New York World:
1. Never buy for cash. The successful operator invests just as little of his own funds as possible, glad to [...]

A New Name for Swiss Cheese 1927

WHEN IT’S REALLY SWISS CHEESE
SCANDALS in the Swiss Cheese Family, the reformers sadly admit, have made it almost as notorious as the Swiss Family Robinson. It is not merely that a ring of cheese around a hole bigger than a silver dollar, and filled in with mustard, as the New York Evening World complains, has [...]

Alternative to Platinum 1927

A RIVAL TO PLATINUM
THIS TITLE IS BESTOWED on tantalum, one of the most important rare metals produced on a commercial scale, by a writer in The Engineering and Mining Journal (New York). Says this paper:
“Its unusual resistance to chemical corrosion makes it of much value to the chemical and allied industries as a material for [...]

DUI Tests 1927

TESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS
JUST HOW DRUNK must a man be to make him unsafe as a motorist? This is the problem that has been bothering British experts, as already noted in these columns.
The British Medical Journal (London) tells us that for several years public attention has been aroused by convictions of persons charged with drunkenness when [...]