from Butler Bros catalog, 1934
Tag: 1934
Weird Tales, Aug, 1934
Ingo-Bike, 1934
Marian Marsh posing on an Ingo-Bike. The bike had a springy foot board and no pedals. The bicycle was propelled forward by a combination of pulling on the steering bar and body movement.
Palace of the Soviets, 1934
Cutaway view of the “Palace of the Soviets”, Moscow, concept by Boris Iofan. The Palace of the Soviets was to be an administrative center and congressional hall located in Moscow. It would have become the world’s tallest structure of its time. Construction started in 1937 and was terminated by the German invasion in 1941. During the war, its steel frame was disassembled for use in the war effort. It was never completed.
Television Newspaper, 1934
Solar Powered Aerial Landing Field, 1934
Modern Mechanix, October, 1934. Art by Norman Saunders
Fingerprint Kit, 1934
Inter-Communicating … 1934
Floating Ocean Airport, 1934
UNCLE SAM ASKED TO BUILD Floating Ocean Airports – Popular Science, February 1934
REDESIGNED and improved since its earlier forms were described in this magazine, a new type of “seadrome” or floating airport, is proposed by its inventor, Edward R. Armstrong, as the basis of a modernized plan to bridge the Atlantic with a string of artificial islands. His project, which has attracted the interest of U. S. Government officials, is intended to provide twenty-hour airplane service between America and Europe. It calls for the anchoring of five of the seadromes between America and Spain, at about the latitude of Washington, D. C, to serve as refueling stations about three hours’ flight apart. Planes using these islands in stepping-stone fashion could transport heavy pay loads at high speed, since their loads of gasoline would be light. Continue reading “Floating Ocean Airport, 1934”
The Master of the World, 1934
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved. (IMDb)
