Popular Science Monthly 



167 



Foiling the Pickpocket and Protect- 

 ing Your Watch 



AVERY simple device to prevent 

 your watch from falling out of 

 your pocket has been invented by 

 Carl Anton Nord of New York 

 City. It consists of a case 

 stamped from sheet metal 

 and lined with soft fabric. 

 The case, which is fast 

 ened securely to the 

 pocket, has a notch at 

 the top, which is 

 rounded to admit the 

 stem of the watch. 

 The stem of the watch 

 is pushed down inside 

 of two prongs which 

 project slightly above 

 the case. 



These prongs require 

 some effort to separate 

 them, so that the watch 

 can not fall out or be 

 easily pulled out by a 

 pickpocket, without the 

 owner being immediate- 

 ly aware of it. 



The watch is held 

 securely in 

 which is fastened 

 inside the pocket 



southern California when motoring off the 

 main highways in the mountains or deserts, 

 as it is sometimes necessary to do 

 there as well as in other sections 

 of the country. 



To demonstrate the possibilities 

 of an invention to be used when 

 the car is mired, a Los Angeles 

 automobile dealer carried out 

 the test shown in the illus- 

 tration below. The rear 

 end of a car weighing 

 2,250 pounds and equip- 

 ped with a 24-horse- 

 power engine was lift- 

 ed high above the floor 

 by means of ropes at- 

 tached to the floor 

 beams above and 

 passed around hub 

 drums fixed to the rear 

 wheels. 

 In actual practice the 

 ropes will be led 

 forward to heavy 

 stakes or other ob- 

 jects strong 

 enough to resist 

 the pull. 



Testing a Car's Power to Pull Itself 

 Out When Stuck 



GETTING stuck in mud, soft sand or 

 snow — the particular circumstances 

 depending on the season of the year — is one 

 of the vicissitudes to be guarded against in 





Test designed to demonstrate the power of an automobile 

 to pull itself out of mud, soft sand or snow by means of 

 power from its engine and ropes wound around hub drums 



Take Good Care of the Eggs This 

 Year— You Will Need Them 



THE United States Department of 

 Agriculture has called attention to the 

 fact that carelessness in handling eggs 

 causes an annual loss of over thirteen 

 millions of them. The loss 

 is due to small cracks in the 

 shells. Once an egg Shell 

 is cracked even so slightly 

 that the eye cannot detect 

 it, the delicate, protective, 

 gelatinous coating which Na- 

 ture provides as a lining for 

 it becomes exposed to the 

 attack of germs and mold 

 forms, lessening the keeping 

 quality of the egg. 



Five per cent of all cold 

 storage eggs, the specialists 

 find, spoil because of these 

 small, scarcely perceptible 

 cracks. Just a little more 

 care in handling the eggs on 

 the farm and in their transit 

 to market and to the con- 

 sumer will greatly lessen this 



important wastage. 



