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Show THINGS TO COME A square television bulb that will permit the viewing of 100 of the transmitted picture .... Any. portable electric saw can be turned into a fixed bench saw by use of a new clamping de-. vice. called "Saw-Gide" . . . .' Windows can now be frosted just like cake. Sapolin Paints, Inc.; has developed a paint which can be sprayed or brushed brush-ed on to Imitate a- frosted-glass pffect .... The same outfit has also, announced a coating that produces a hand-rubbed finish on furniture or woodwork, without with-out rubbing! .... Now comes a machine to lay 8 to 12 bricks at one time. Tsk, tsk hasn't the inventor ever heard that there's a union which concerns itself with such matters as minimum min-imum and maximum numbers of bricks which shall be laid on the job per day? At any rate, it is said this machine will enable an untrained man after 30 minutes min-utes . of practice to put down 2,000 to 3,000 bricks in an 8-hour 8-hour day, thus saving builders up to 36c a square foot. "Any reasonable acceptance" of the device by the construction industry in-dustry could cut - at ..least $100 million a year from building costs, the inventor suggests . . . A lamp, for reading in bed. that can be clamped right onto your hook:. . . . A , broom -with , Dlasv ti? bristles, particularly, good for sweeping up water, it-is. said,, be cause the bristles themselves do hot absorb water, ..: . : . |