Switch closes window, turns on heat for early riser – Modern Mechanix, 1932. THERE would be fewer people late for work these winter mornings if the room were warm enough to permit arising in comfort, but a warm room is impossible if we keep the windows up to scare the T. B. bugs away. That […]
Let’s bring back the traveling woodworking shop tour, Popular Mechanics – 1938.
Mono-Scooter Is Speedy – Popular Mechanics, 1936- With a little practice, you can get more speed out of this mono-scooter than out of a pair of roller skates. It is made from two roller-skate wheels and a hardwood block as wide as the shoe and about 5 in, longer. Round the ends of the block […]
Unique Game for Party Amusement Modern Mechanix, 1933 – surely to be a Wii game soon…. “SPIKE the Potato†is a highly entertaining game for any party. All that is needed is a single large potato, a number of paper cones and some needles. The paper cones are about 7 in. long and 1-1/2″ in […]
Electric miniature mono-railway Modern Mechanix, Feb, 1931. IT IS a well known fact among experimenters that when a whirling gyroscope is set in an upright or inclined position it will not change unless some strong exterior force is applied. Due to this peculiar quality, which is known as the precessive effect, the gyroscope can be […]
Every time there is a new technology, the makers figure out a way to cook food with it… Radio cooked toast, 1933. RADIO cooking is the latest stunt developed by broadcast engineers. If a hot lunch is wanted by the operators in a transmitting station, all they have to do is place their food between […]
In response to my posting of the hat-i-fied version of the Bleep Labs’ ThingamaKIT, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder emailed me this cover from a 1949 Hugo Gernsbeck pub, Radio – Electronics. Thanks, Mark! More: ThingamaHat
