The “Doodle Bug” was the name given by my grandfather for his home-made tractor made from auto parts
Category: Technology
It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread! (1930)
1951 RCA 1R81 Radio Bluetooth Conversion Project
Hybrid X
Auto Engine Drives Motorcycle at High Speed
Assembled especially for establishing a world’s record of more than 300 miles per hour, an over-size motorcycle powered with an automobile engine has been making speed tests on the pacific coast. The motorcycle weighing 1,500 pounds is powered with a six-cylinder Plymouth automobile engine with fan and generator removed. With special timing and carburetor jets, the engine makes 4,100 revolutions per minute. The wheelbase is eighty-five inches and the overall-all length is 115 inches, a standard motorcycle frame being lengthened and reinforced with steel tubing. Two large sprockets connected by a three-quarter inch chain facilitate steering, the handlebars having been moved back several inches from their original position. Two steel plates, one on each side of the rear wheel, serve as brakes by actual contact with the ground or track. They can be raised or lowered by a lever.
Radiofrigo
It’s a Fridge! It’s a Radio! It’s Radiofrigo, The refrigerator with a built in radio, by Philips!
A Better Mousetrap, 1882
The inventor of this trap believed that there is no kill like overkill!
Seven Wonders of the World, 1908
The new wonders of the last few months are:
New York’s 48-story office building
The new 30,000-ton ocean greyhound Lusitania
The War airships being perfected in Europe
Marconi’s transatlantic wireless telegraphy
The powerful electric locomotive for railways
The camera phonograph.
Edison’s $1000 concrete house, built in 12 hours.
These are by no means the “seven wonders of the modern world,” they are the seven wonders of today
Rocketing to the Moon, 1930
Artists conception of Professor Goddard’s rocket ship to the moon. It was estimated the rocket would have an average speed of 4650 MPH and would make the trip to the moon in 48 hours.
Radio World, Jan, 1936
Lighting up with a soldering iron…
Radio Exhibition, 1938
Millions in Gold, 1916
MILLIONS IN GOLD LIE AT BOTTOMS OF SEAS
FINANCIERS BACK ENGINEERS TO MAKE SEARCH
New York, June 12 – Would you believe that big business men financiers and stock market operators of the super-wise Wall street clan would put up $125,000 to finance an expedition to search the bottom of the five oceans for lost treasure trove?
They have.