ll TA , POPULAR | | MECHANICS ene SNOW TRACTOR PAGE 169Je Aloander Graham Ball ecu lok a the microwave antenna inthe ilustation, how quickly his mind would go back to hie own experiments, 67 years ago! For in 1880 the inventor of the telephone id smother new dex. Speech could be carried by electric wites, as Bell had demonstrated, ‘Could it be carried also by a light beam? He got together apparatus~a telephone transmitter, a parabolic reflector, a seleninm call connected to hanéphones-and “threw” a voice across several hundred yards by waves Of visible light, electromagnetic waves of high frequency. Bell's easly experiment with the parabolic tenna and the nse of light beams as cacirs fords that rode on a beam of light was for many years only a scientific novelty, His ‘dda was far abd of its tne. ‘oped by Bell Telephon tary communication. In the Bell System now giving service between places on the main- Tand and neatby islands and secon stich beams will be put to work in the radio relay. In retrospect, Bells experiment Mustrites fonce again the’ inquiring spitit of the Bell ‘Telephone System. BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES xplrng end Inventing, Doviing and Perbecting Sor Contineed Improvements and Econint I Tolaphene Service 2 Popular Mechanics Magazine ‘egal in 8 Patent Ome an Cunt HH. WINDSOR, Jr, Faltor and Publisher HLH WINDSOR, Founder Toderck Grant Fork ( bitin ern, noted Beak ert, at were PICTURES of the “Whale Fac- tory” on pages 123-125 were dean by G.H. Davie of England, one of the world’s loading dhagramamate artists. Mr. Davis, a contributor to ‘these pages for meny yours, wots his material the hard way. During ‘the War he rode subs and bombers to get some of his famous on-the- scene drawings. Recently be hag bboen delving into the progress of Jot propulsion in Europe for a Moreh picture etdry on ramjots In This Issue Laboratory in Space © + + + Waterloo for the Atom - Highballing the Highway Freight - 105 Germ Warfare Against Bugs- - - 16 Whale Factory- - - - - = - 123 Riggers Ride High - - Synthetic or Natural Tires! Filming the Sun’s Diary - - + - 147 Edison Started Something - - + 153 Oven-Baked Gems for Industry - + 164 Can Cities Harness the Wind? - - 171 For the Craftsman “'Studioettes”—Unit End Tables - 178 Build a Deep Freezer - - - _- - 186 Stage Your Own Marionette Show - 201 ‘Transparency Projector -_- _- + 208 Mechanical "Hired Man” +++ 217 How to Cut Multiple Threads» - 222 Radio and Electronics» _-_- + _- 229 ALSO NEXT MONTH there's a ‘yarn on lab research to find @ bet ter fuel for your ear, Scientists hope to cut gas consumption 20 pereent by 1990, a healthy saving for any penny-nise motorist. Ina pieture-packed feature on ‘dude Fanches you can pan for gold, eat beans from a chuck wagon ‘and ride the sprawling range. HOME ON WHEELS—that’s the well-equipped house taller do- eribed ina new Crefteman series ‘beginning next month. The rolling house can Te bullt with a few of dinary" tools. Another. how-t ‘bulla’ story’ features -somethi new—a “walking” garden tractor powered by a four-cylinder en- ine. A timely article in the same Table of Contents Continued on Page 8 RADIO students and experiment fre ill find a now tuning feature fn tho 1947 “Little Giant” broad. feast set described in the March Radio and Electronics section, FEBRUARY 1947ee ea ce Brown's Car af ! ‘be ready at nine! PERFECT CIRCLE POPULAR MECHANICS