1930s
The Incassomat
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In 1936, banks invented “the Incassomat” or “robot cashier”, a machine to facilitate deposit making and withdrawals, to improve record keeping and reduce human errors in transactions. Soon, banks piloting it realized the cost of operating it was too high compared with the benefits of error correction.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 08, 2019 -
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Category: Money, Technology, 1930s
Mystery Gadget 72
What's this device do? Hint: it involves distances.
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 04, 2019 -
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Category: Technology, 1930s
Jerry Pulls the Strings
Imperious coffee magnate is wooed by his future son-in-law's puppets.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 02, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Puppets and Automatons, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Marriage, 1930s, Love & Romance
The Hollister Wind Bag
Patented by Thomas Lloyd Hollister in 1939. He called it a “gas receptor.” Basically, it was a fart collection bag. From the patent:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 30, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Flatulence, 1930s
Mystery Gadget 71
This was equipment aboard a large ocean liner. What did it do?Answer is here, or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 03, 2019 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Technology, 1930s
Jelly-Strength Tester
Invented in 1932 by C.R. Fellers and J.A. Clague of Massachusetts State College. It's technical name is the Fellers-Clague Penetrometer.As is explained in The Complete Book on Gums and Stabilizers for Food Industry, there are two ways of testing the strength of jelly: 1) "tests in which the elastic limits (breaking strength) of the jellies are exceeded and the jelly is ruptured", or 2) "tests measuring deformation (sag) of jellies without exceeding the elastic limit."
The Fellers-Clague Penetrometer is of the first type.
Latrobe Bulletin - July 13, 1932
Source: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Analytical Edition
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 02, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Jello, Inventions, 1930s
Self-described Suicide
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 12, 2019 -
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Category: Suicide, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #409
The man and the women are plainly inhabitants of totally different cartoon universes, the inverse relationship of Roger and Jessica Rabbit. This rather destroys the impact of the whole ad.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 29, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, Comics, 1930s
“Die British and Remain British”
The 1930's version of British remainers.
The Monroe News-Star - Oct 1, 1934
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 26, 2019 -
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Category: Death, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #406
Joe Louis lives in your car's engine.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 15, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Sports, Technology, 1930s
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