Author: GLEASON, S.; WALTZ, H. JR.; KEGL, Z.; BOONE, A.; BOWMAN, D.; JOHNSON, G.; THOMAS, E.; ET AL
Title: Popular Science, December 1933, Volume 123, Number 6 - How Dick Bowman Flew Through a Mile of Fog
Description: New York: Popular Science Publishing Co, 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Wittmack, Edgar F. (Cover). 104 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Amazing cover illustration of a huge amphibious truck; Doctors face death trailing living poisons of mystery diseases; Radio pen writes in letters of fire on far-away screen - with photo of its inventor Allen B. DuMont; One-page photo-illustrated article on the preservation of vanishing totem poles in the Pacific Northwest; Photo of C.R. Klein of Santa Monica, California and his 268 HP motor; Girl fights octopus for underwater movie taken by inventor Leon F. Douglass; America's oldest road roaller found; Crackup of mighty glacier caught for first time by sound camera; Three American chinchilla farms produce most costly furs - with illustration of M.F. Chapman; Flies down radio beam through a mile of fog; How to check up on time and the seasons; Accidents still produce great inventions; Huge truck for land or water carries shipload of cargo. Ads: Fantastic one-page orange and black ad for The A.C. Gilbert Company, maker of Erector toys for boys, featuring the New Erector Sensational No. 7 Set; Nice Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features their 16-Tube All-Wave Radio, with inset photo of Wilbur Long, Jr. of Newberry, South Carolina; Outstanding back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features world billiard champion Erich Hagenlocher performing before attentive crowd. Modest wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Popular Science, December 1933, Volume 123, Number 6 - How Dick Bowman Flew Through a Mile of Fog cover illustration of a huge amphibious truck; Doctors face death trailing living poisons of mystery diseases; Radio pen writes in letters of fire on far-aw. Good .

Keywords: 1933 123 6 ; ; Far Aw & Technology Issues Aviation