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the FUTURE
will disappear. The interior of the car of the fu- lows in the Scientific American:
ture v,ill look Ilka a little ?!«a«irp house, not the "lTipt*»ad of the nroppller-shaped blade, the
engine room of the U-boat. The engine—whether present device is composed of sheets of metal
electric, gas or steam, or located under the hood or rolled in a cylindrical,shape, one cylinder being
the rear seat—will deliver and store enough power within the other. The action of this fan when
TO fln pverythijis about the car that manual labor attached to a motor in the ceiling is to draw the
A
LL glass enclosed, power plant at point ot now does. The air brake displaced hand bracing «ir upward with a gentle draft, iiidieau oi! b'OTrlug
power application, driven from anywhere by on the railroad train, making greater speeds and
a small control board, no clutch, gears, safety possible—it has started, with its rival, the
transmission, gear shift lever (that's not a prophe- electric brake, to do &e same for the motor.
"Steam or electric steering has displaced hand
cy, there is a magnetic-drive now that eliminates steering on all great ships—why should you sit
those four nuisances)—will sit low, have a small humped" over a much-in-the-way-of-your-comfort
clearance, ride easily over perfect roads, carry steering wheel, when your engine can supply the
BO spare tires because possessing pnnctureless or muscle and all you need to supply is the brala?
"The New Car Will Be All Glass-Enclosed and Controlled Entirely by a Set of Push "The motor car of the future will be low. You
airless tires, have no exterior or interior excres- Buttons. It Will Have No Clutch, Gears or Transmission, Will Sit Low, Have Small won't climb into it—you will step into it Six-inch
cences and cost—like those of today, just whatever Clearance and Punctureless Tires." clearances will be ample, because the future won't
your pocketbook can afford to pay and a little bit have any bad roads. In any modern city any Car
more—that's the automobile of the immediate down the oiler, a man to pump the tires, a maa left as he pleas.es or even, on country roads, 03 could get along with a six-inch clearance.
future C. H. Claufiy describes in the Scientific to fill the oil lamps and a man to light them. It the rear seat. Driving will be, then, what it ought "Exterior, excrescences are doomed. Presgnt
was the same man, but the point is the engine to be, a mental, not a physical, exercise." practice runs fenders into bodies, and has cleared
American. didn't do anything hut pull htm around. He had As a basis of fact for the foregoing prediction the running boards of the boxes, battery cases,
Any one who has considered the rapid develop- to attend to all the rest of it himself. Mr. Claudy points to the push button electric gear spare tires, acetylene generators, etc., of a few
ment of the automobile will not he surprised, but "Today the engine- supplies power for lights, shift which displaces the manual work of moving years ago. Future practice will—and very soon—
interested, in Mr. CHaudy's predict?*™? power to start itself, power to pump up tires, pow- around a set of gears, and does the labor electrl- banish all such 'out-at-elbow' things as projecting
"The automobile of the future," says Mr. C!aa- er to pump its own oil, and power to putup its own. v.euiy, '..I'.?. i.n.cr£7 stored in the storag0 batter* by headlights, knobby tire carriers on the rear, gaso-
fly, "will be weather tight. The open car, the so- gasoline. the engine. "Of course." says Mr. Claudy, "the car line tanks that caliect uusi, license brackets with,
called 'touring model' -will never be as popular in "What is next? Power to stop itself, of course! the license hanging loose and all such!
the future as it has been in the past. Of course And here we are. on solid ground, for the vacuum "The car of the future will carry neither extra
there will always be as many, if not more, body brake, -svhich uses engine power to create suction tires nor extra wheels. In the first place, if the The Blades Are Rolled in Cylindrical Shape
models in the future as now, but they will all tend
toward one standard, just as most of the models
today tend toward the standard touring, roadster
and air pressure to apply brakes, is flready on the
market. So is an electrical brake, which uses the
stored engine energy in the battery to wind a cable
on a drum and ,iuts so much pressure on the brake
SAND SHOES
BRITISH troops while campaigning in the Sinai
non-puncturable tire doesn't arrive—which it will,
probably—and if the substitute for rubber is never
made—which it will be—why, some one will come
across with a substitute for air.
Which Cause the Air to Be Drawn Upward.
it violently downward from the upper part of the
room. The inventor claims that this results in
or limousine bodies. And this standard model will bands that the best practice is to keep them thor- ' - "The troubleless tire is on the way and the
be a. weather-proof affair. Probably it will be ail desert, in Palestine, were reported to have far more effective cooling, as the-- heated air is
oughly oiled. found a way of making their feet as sand- car of the future will have it. A spare tire in the nearest the eeiHng, while the cool air is near tha
glass sides, front, rear and roof. The entire trend "The car of the future will have no such thing future will be as extinct as the dodo and as un-
of the industry runs from clumsiness to refiae'- worthy as the camel's hy adopting the principle of floor. Hence to draw the cool" air upward gives
as a 'driver's seat.' All the seats in the car save the snowshoe. By -weaving a stiff network ot known as a spare engine, a spare gasoline can or the hest result, Th& action of the fan is so gentle
ment, and the present styles of bodies, modelled the rear one, wfll be moveable. Driving will be an extra top is today.
from long practice on the precedents of hundreds heavy wire and attaching it to their shoes, they that it does not tend to raise the dust from, the
done from a small control board, which can be "The dew-dabs designed to make a car ride floor, yet it effectively circulates the air and re-
of years of coach building, are far too clumsy to held in the lap. It wjll be connected to the easily will go, too, because all cars wilt ride easily
live. duces tbe temperature in short order. It has been
mechanism by a flexible electric cable. A small Toe Sand Shoes on good roads. Spring suspension win be easier, tried out with success in restaurants and offices
"The glass sides will come down, of course, for finger lever, not a wheel, will guide the car. An- lighter, less complicated, non-squeaking', more ef-
warm weather. Curtains inside will keep out glare, Resemble and is .adapted to factories, hails and other places
other will attend to speed changes, buttons will fective, because less will be demanded of it" where perfect ventilation is required.'1
and a roof curtain will keep off sun when shade light and warm the car, blow the horn, apply the Wire Traps.
is wanted. But frames, instead of being of heavy brakes—everything. The driver win sit right or
wood or metal, will approximate the framing now
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