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Equipped with all the trick devices of modern science, so that a press on a button brings about wonders, the new Cambridge Central Fire Station is a glorified Rube Goldberg invention, functioning with the precision but with hardly the complication of that noble gentleman's infernal machines.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cambridge Fire Station, Opened Sunday, a Nest of Scientific Appliances Rivaling Rube Goldberg Machines | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

As the doors open for the apparatus, another mechanism turns the traffic signals that are situated like beacons at the apexes of the triangular site of the station, from green to red. Traffic pulls over to the side and the engines roar out through the doors. After a minute and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cambridge Fire Station, Opened Sunday, a Nest of Scientific Appliances Rivaling Rube Goldberg Machines | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

The first term of the first U. S. President was just ending when the New York Stock Exchange was founded under the buttonwood tree in Wall Street in 1792. No broker ever became President and few much of anything else. But in the last 142 years the members of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Read the Bill! | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

UPTON Sinclair, prophet extraordinary, has been telling the world what it was coming to for thirty years; and, despite his unorthodox economics and occasionally almost unbelievable naivete, he has usually succeeded in striking the gong with uncanny precision. His latest assumption of the role of seer, however, is not likely...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/6/1934 | See Source »

Cars for the Classes. If cars for the masses are bread & butter to the Industry, cars for the classes represent the cream of the machine age. Polished instruments of beauty and precision, the high-priced models always draw the most pop-eyed crowds. Pierce-Arrow last year exhibited a special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: At the Council Rock | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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