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He Popped Corn Into a Fortune (Nov, 1953)

He Popped Corn Into a Fortune


By Bruce Morgan


LUCK FOR SALE (Aug, 1954)



By Irv Leiberman


I remane, Mr. B. F.







Story of Paper (Jan, 1946)

Story of Paper
TAKE a look around you at home, in the office, at the store—wherever you are at any time during the day—and wherever your eye falls, yon see paper. From the cigarette you smoke to the heavy carton around bulky packages, almost everything you use has paper in it somewhere. 15 million tons is used annually in this country—over 200 pounds per person. So there is a lot to support the argument of the men and women who make paper that theirs is the most important industry in the world.


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MODERN WONDERS of an Ancient Art Part II


Part II



Electrons at Work (Sep, 1946)

Electrons at Work

How the busy family of vacuum tubes serves industry as valves, triggers and throttles of electric power.


WHEN you snap your radio on; when you cross the path of an electric eye and untended doors jerk open to let you pass; when you hear your train called with strident clarity above the clamor of a vast terminal, electrons have been put to work.

Electrons are controlled by vacuum tubes. And vacuum tubes in the last 15 years have gone far afield from their original uses in communications to become the valves, triggers, and throttles of modern industry.

All vacuum tubes, from the tiny nutlike affairs in hearing-aid devices to the six-foot water-cooled giants used to handle hundreds of kilowatts in radio broadcasting and power conversion, depend upon the same principle. This principle is that electrons— those ultimate bits of electrical energy— can be rapidly and automatically controlled when they are freed from a metal conductor and jump across the empty space inside the tube. Their behavior during those microseconds can be changed in almost any way that human intelligence wants it to be changed.

What Makes the Movies Talk? (Nov, 1928)

What Makes the Movies Talk?

By William F. Crosby

Electrical Expert and Radio Engineer Millions of people have heard and seen the new talking movies, but the theater-going public knows little about the machinery that makes this form of entertainment possible. In this article Mr. Crosby writes authoritatively of the development of the talking movies, being an electrical engineer who has made a study of the sound devices.

SPEECH reproduction as an accompaniment of motion pictures has been perfected to such a degree that the common variety of silent movie promises to become something of a rarity. Even the 100-seat side-street theater will soon be able to cast out its old mechanical organ and give its patrons the same high quality musical accompaniment that distinguishes the presentations in the largest movie palaces.

New Uses for OLD FORDS (Nov, 1928) (Nov, 1928)

New Uses for OLD FORDS

Rescued from a grave in the junk heap, Tin Lizzie dons working clothes and makes money for the ingenious man who thinks of new ways to use her cheap and ample power.

Have you a new use for an old Ford? For all ideas published the editors of Modern Mechanics will pay five dollars—with a bonus for photos. Send in your ideas, giving full details.

SINCE the Ford Motor Company has ceased production on the universally known model T Ford car, millions of which are to be found in every corner of the world, many of these cars have drifted prematurely to vacant lots and garage junk heaps as an expectant public floods the Ford plant with a deluge of orders for the successor to the old design.







COUNTING AMERICA’S 40,000,000 VOTES (Nov, 1936)

