Month: November 2013
The Cask
On A Weird Trail, Three Men Stalked A Crafty Killer
Space Fear
Gyroscope Monorail Car
This German monorail will revolutionize rail transportation. At 300 miles per hour it will meet the challenge of the air transport lines.
Daring Death With News Cameramen
Television A Mile Beneath The Sea
Flying Without Leaving The Ground
Best Mechanics Will Win If U.S. Fights Japan
Also, Rubber From The Sun
Snake Doctor
Mase McKay and the Voodoo Queen turn the ‘Glades into Bedlam
Electric Cannon Uses No Gunpowder
Silent guns sending their whistling messengers of death into the sky at speeds far beyond those now attained by powder-driven shells seem likely for the next war, using for propulsion magnetic fields so powerful that when they are short-circuited they produce miniature earthquakes.
Flying Tanks Shed Wings
Imagine those two formidable weapons of modern warfare, the airplane and the armored tank, combined into one terrible machine of destruction! Fantastic as the idea sounds, it is fast taking physical shape as a reality for Uncle Sam’s army. The whole amazing story is presented to you in this important article.
Power From Ocean Waves
Upward of 40,000 inventions a year are granted patents by Uncle Sam, but not one of these offers a practical solution of the problem which scientists agree is the most pressing of them all — that is, how to harness natural sources of energy for power. Mr. Cole does not profess to have solved the problem, but the methods he describes here point out the trend of probable development.
Machine Gunner Sits Suspended Under Plane
Pilots of combat planes in the World war were acutely conscious of the fact that their ships had a “blind spot” in which they were peculiarly vulnerable to attack by the enemy. This spot included the underpart of the tail and rear section of the fuselage, which could not be defended by machine gun fire from the cockpit for the reason that the gunner would have to fire through his own plane.
Plane Passengers Bailed Out Automatically
One of the most pressing needs of aviation has been a mechanical method whereby all passengers could be simultaneously and automatically bailed out at the psychological moment, that is, when the pilot learns that all hope for saving the plane is lost.
Such a method has now put in its appearance in the aviation world. With the equipment shown in the above photo, it is possible for the pilot to send his passengers on a flight groundward by parachute whether they want to bail out or not.
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How Frank Buck Filmed His Famous Tiger-Python Battle
Everyone who has seen Frank Buck’s “Bring ‘Em Back Alive,” that amazing movie of jungle life, is asking the question: “How did they ever film that spectacular battle between a Bengal tiger and a 30-foot python? Was it faked? How did the cameramen happen to be on the scene — and how did they escape with their own lives?” Read the answer in this article.