Month: March 2019
Captain Marvel, Nov, 1942
Giant Mechanical Mosquito, 1913
Self-moving mechanisms modelled on the lines of gigantic mosquitoes and designed to enable man to conquer Nature in those places where the climate or the formation of the country make it impossible for him to enter or to remain for any length of time.
The outer frame is 48½ feet square, and it stands 33 feet high from the bottom of the spuds to the working deck level. The inner stage is 29½ feet by 40¼ feet. In the body are the engines which, provide its motive power and the quarters for a crew of ten men. The head is nothing more than a huge engine, from which are operated the drills, cutting tools, lifting cranes or whatever it is that is necessary for the work at hand. The machines will be made of steel and aluminum, and are not inordinately heavy. They are run by the Diesel oil machines.
Finally their use as war engines, as terrible as the fanciful “walking tripods” of Mr. Wells’s Martians, is being brought to the attention of the Italian Government.
un-annotated version below
At Home With Bela
Above the bed, is a nude painting of Clara Bow which was prominently displayed in each of his homes from when it was painted in 1929 until his death in 1956.
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, 1929
Serial run of Tarzan at the Earths Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs in Blue Book September 1929 – March 1930
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Lucille Ball, 1942
Promotion shot of Lucille Ball for her 1942 role in The Big Street
Spicy Adventure Stories, April, 1936
The American Weekly, July 2, 1933
Cover by Henry Clive, #4 in his cupid series
Vickers-Wolseley, 1926
The Wolseley-Vickers wheel-cum-track car was a prototype passenger car with a tracked undercarriage. Though was practically no need for the Wolseley-Vickers hybrid vehicle for civilian use, military customers were interested in it as a “staff vehicle.”
The Public Enemy, 1931
