Test-tube for Sound This giant “tost-tube" is actualy an echoless ound room a! Ball Telephone Laboratories. Hore engineers seck new focts about sound which will help them make telephone service Sill better ond more dependable. know o great deal ebout what und in electrical + + + 188 Fun With Common Gases - - - Pad It With Foam Rubber - - - Shoot ’em Close-Up - - - + + ‘Table Saw Has Tilting Arbor ~~ Brazing With Illuminating Gas - + Radio and Electronics + - + + DECEMBER 1947PRINCE AlBerr SMOKING TogAcco Look at this eotorful, Chris kin of crimp, Tes all ready Brother to in his pipe Fich wasting, mild, and « you're unre co please with B.A.) the tongue. Yes, THAN ANY OTHER TOBACCO POPULAR MECHANICS How Fast Can Man FLY— mecvrumre: @gd LVEF fal to’ hima? What is “supersonic sickness “Aviation needs to know the an- Plat inthe Shyetreak above wers to such questions smesst ais aery ashing bel, sac fonce, for aireraft that may pierce Semen. Gait dom oxygen mask the sound wall are under construc tion’ Pilot safety is one of the un- knowns in transsonle cockpit will sicken gente the pilot. Others theorize that ultrasonte vibrations, such as are employed to homogenize liquids ad i Dacieria, will be set up they will disorganize the re believe that either tremes is likely, but ving to anticipate all such possibilities so that preventive measures” against hharm to the pilot ean be taken. ‘Already seme curious thingshave happened to humans who fy fast Pilots have’ landed with swollen By Thomas E. Stimson, Jr, DECEMBER 1947