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Updated 8:01 p.m. ETNEWTOWN, Conn. Nicole Hockley says she still finds herself reaching for her son s hand or
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stanley mugs omobile often comes with high-tech crash-avoidance systems. Parallel parking is a breeze when your car beeps to let you know when you ;re about to hit something. The people of yesteryear couldn ;t have imagined something like that, right Think again. In today edition of There Nothing New Under the Sun, we have
stanley quencher a Jazz Age invention that was going to make car crashes a thing of the past. Getting too close to another car would set off the car horn. From the August 1927 issue of Science and Invention magazine: The motorists of the future instead of operating the horns on their automobiles as done now will commission radio to perform this function automatically. A recent patent issued to Harry Flurscheim, of Paris, France, provides for a radio warning system to be used on vehicles. The body of the car prevents the reception of waves from the rear and also prevents radiation of waves to the rear. The apparatus for the emission and reception of the signals is mounted in a suitable box placed on the front of the radiator of the usual type of vehicle. Th
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