Fishing with inverted lines from the decks of American submarines is the newest pastime among members of their crews operating in the Pacific Ocean from the Los Angeles submarine base. The boats make frequent practice trips between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island. The water in this area averages about 90 ft. in depth, and [...]
Ingenious plans whereby a smooth concrete auto road may be run for 33 miles through a difficult pass of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and a great transcontinental railroad may acquire, at the same time, a system of permanent concrete snowsheds, have been completed by a western engineer. The design for the new snowsheds provides them [...]
A cap the size and shape of a drum major’s shako, supported by a rod on the back of a chair and heated internally by electric current to a temperature of 300˚ F., is being demonstrated in England as a means of improving the growth of the hair. A switch on the top plate of [...]
Aeronautical circles and the public in general are keenly awaiting the proposed flight from Detroit to New York of a bat-wing airplane which represents a revolutionary idea in the design and construction of heavierthan-air machines. This machine, which is the invention of an American aeronautical engineer, formerly a member of the Aircraft Board during the War, is [...]
Mary, the modern milkmaid, does not run any chances in learning to differentiate between the starboard and the port side of a cow. The use of this milking dummy has proved so successful in the training of girls and women for practical farm work during the war emergency that now several of the agricultural colleges are [...]
Incased in stout oak staves, hooped with heavy steel, and seemingly prepared to meet a cataclysm, a misguided adventurer from England on July 11 defied the resistless power of Niagara, and was utterly annihilated. The unfortunate experimenter, convinced that the terrifying plunge of 163 ft. over the falls could be made in safety with the [...]
No longer need duck hunters suffer from exposure on cold and rainy days, hiding in rice marshes or lying in open boats – in cramped positions – waiting for a flock of birds to alight or fly over them within range. A sportsman who has experienced these discomforts has designed a novel blind, which is [...]
A unique motor car recently was exhibited at Atlantic City, New Jersey, which also can be used as a boat. The motor is capable of making a speed of sixty miles an hour on land. When the driver wishes, it can be driven into a body of water, by manipulating a clutch, which throws the [...]
A problem that kept an entire office force puzzled for two days is what is called the cannibal and missionary puzzle. Here it is for you to idle your time away on. Three cannibals and three missionaries arrive at the bank of a river which they must somehow cross. There is but one boat. This [...]
When the new photographic method of measuring is adopted by the tailoring trade, a misfit should be a rarity. Low or round shoulders will be unerringly recorded by the infallible plate, and the cloth may be cut and joined in such a way that these, and other bodily peculiarities, may be masked or accentuated, whichever [...]
Instead of cleaning your comb, let the comb clean you – that is, your hair. Antonio di Salvio, of Washington, Pa., invented the hair-cleaning comb shown below. The comb is hollow, and has perforations above the teeth through which the dirt in your hair is sucked. A motor-driven fan causes the suction, after the fashion [...]
“Do you dance?” “No.” “Why not?” “Can’t.” Such conversations are heard time and time again. “Ah, but anyone can learn to dance,” says Max Rothkugel, of New York city, “if he uses my dancing chart.” The chart dissects each dance step into its individual foot movements, and matches them to the notes of the music. [...]
Trolling for deep-sea game fish from the gondola of a low-flying dirigible, locating schools of fish from the air, and then tossing the hooks to them from the air, is the newest twist to angling pastimes to attract the attention of American sportsmen. The first dirigible fishing expedition was carried out, on July 7, by [...]
“I’ll see you in the woodshed after tea.” Thus spake the fathers of yesterday; and when the time came there was a brief application of switch or slipper. Now all is changed, or about to be, since the recent Electrical Show at Madison Square Garden in New York city. The modern formula of punishment will [...]
Though it resembles neither a boat nor a bicycle, a strange water craft designed by an ingenious pair of Illinois inventors is really a combination of the two, and its use as a bathing-beach adjunct ushers in a brand-new sport. The buoyant part of the machine consists of two air-tight metal tanks, one shaped lie [...]
Using a shotgun instead of a tripod as a support for his camera, a photographer of southern California has evolved a new method of taking (photographs of) rapidly moving objects, obtaining clear-cut pictures of autos going over 100 miles an hour, during a recent racing meet. The camera, of ordinary type, is rigidly clamped to [...]
