Popular Science L-7-4

What's New in the World of Today and Tomorrow!

8.0

|1948|10 min

At Arcata, California, testing technology for landing planes in fog. Also: a high-tech barber shop in Westwood Village, California; manufacture of precision steel gauge blocks in Eskilstuna, Sweden.

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