Tag: Jerome/George Rozen
The Python
The Murder Master
Murder Trail (1933)
The Unseen Killer
The Silent Death (1933)
Crime, Insured
Gray Fist (1934)
Alias The Masked Detective
It’s a Free Country
War In Gunsmoke Gap
Veteran Dares Atlantic In Barrel Boat
Aero-Drive Desert Bus Replaces Camels
Protected from tropical sand storms, desert travelers of the future may be able to whiz across the Sahara in monster 100-passenger aero-drive buses following radio beam highways. Camel caravans
would be out-moded by the standard of comfort possible in the proposed buses.
Preliminary details of this whirring, bouncing giant of the sands call for propulsion entirely by air, with a 2500 h.p. aviation engine and pusher propeller mounted atop the roof. Most unusual feature of the desert bus is a series of spherical tires on each side which would provide good traction over the shifting sands. Directly back of the propeller is a steering fin which controls the direction of the ship.
Also featuring Around the World on the New Airways of the Seas
Under-Sea Tractor-Sphere Roams Ocean Floor
Newest of mechanical monsters intended for under-sea exploration is the tractor-sphere being designed by Otis Barton, builder of the bathysphere used by Dr. William Beebe in setting a new world’s diving record of 3028 feet.
The new invention, intended to be driven into the sea from the beach level under its own power, might be classed as a bathysphere mounted on caterpillar treads. Powerful electric motors operating from sealed-in storage batteries would move this undersea tractor over the rocky slopes and pinnacles of the ocean floor.
