CITIZEN CARRIER 1420.4 MHz
✦ ASTRODYNE INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCES 1964 WORLD'S FAIR PAVILION EXPANSION IN FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY ✦ MODEL 9-A "HEARTH-GLOW" HOME GENERATORS NOW APPROVED BY ALL 50 STATE NUCLEAR UTILITY BOARDS ✦ SPECIAL TRAIN RESERVATIONS OPEN FOR SEATTLE CENTURY 21 EXPOSITION ✦ REPORT ANY UNREGISTERED GYROCOPTER FLIGHT CORRIDORS TO CIVIL AERONAUTICS DIVISION ✦ TODAY'S ATOMIC ENERGY QUOTIENT: 99.98% PURE TRANQUILITY ✦

ASTRODYNE

Tomorrow, Delivered Today
As Seen in the General Motors Futurama & Century 21 Pavilion

THE ATOMIC AGE IS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM!

Step boldly across the threshold of tomorrow. Astrodyne Industries liberates the modern suburban family from toil through civilian nuclear energy, domestic mechanical automatons, and personal stratospheric transit.

DISPATCH FOR COLOR CATALOGUE
GOLD MEDAL WINNER

Grand Prix of Space Aeronautics, 1962

RAD-OK
PATENTED RAD-SAFE SEAL

Guaranteed 100% Strontium-Free Housing

ASTRODYNE
✦ 100% DOMESTIC CLEAN NUCLEAR ENERGY
✦ 40,000 MILES PER FUEL CAPSULE
✦ ZERO HOUSEHOLD TOIL FOR THE MODERN HOMEMAKER
✦ WORLD'S FAIR PREVIEW TICKETS COMPLIMENTARY
The Vanguard of Household Science

PRODUCTS OF PROGRESS

Every unit manufactured in our pristine Cleveland, Ohio nuclear-assembly hangars. Engineered for simplicity, warranted for two decades of suburban leisure.

ASTRODYNE POWER DIVISION SPECIFICATION SHEET 9-A
WORLD'S FAIR 1962 GOLD
HEARTH-GLOW 9-A

THE "HEARTH-GLOW" HOME ATOMIC GENERATOR

Safe, Quiet, Radiantly Clean Energy for the Modern Split-Level!

Say goodbye forever to soot-blackened chimneys and utility meter-men trampling the hydrangeas! The Hearth-Glow 9-A nestles serenely in your recreation room, delivering uninterrupted electrical abundance from a thimble of fissionable pellet.

  • 40,000 Kilowatt-Hours per thimble of enriched uranium oxide.
  • Lead-Plated Plexiglass containment safe for children, collies, and parakeets.
  • Thermal Tap Attachment heats driveway to melt winter blizzard snow automatically!
REACTOR CORE REGULATOR OUTPUT: 100% NOMINAL
48.2 kW
✂ CLIP & MAIL FOR HOME SURVEY
$1,249 or $34/mo on Atomic Layaway
AERO-DYNAMICS DIVISION CIVIL MODEL 400
COMMUTER CLASS CAA CERTIFIED

THE "AERO-DART 400" PERSONAL GYROCOPTER

Why Endure Asphalt Turnpikes When the Stratosphere Beckons?

Fly directly from your driveway to the 42nd-floor office landing pad! Featuring our patented Hover-Matic gyro-stabilizer and twin contra-rotating magnesium rotors, the Aero-Dart handles as intuitively as the family station wagon.

  • Fits in Standard 2-Car Garage with fold-back rotor wings.
  • Radar-Link Auto-Pilot maintains suburban air-corridor altitude.
  • Push-Button Ejection Chute for serene peace of mind.
FLIGHT ELEVATION TELEMETRY ALT: 2,400 FT
142 MPH
✂ REQUEST COMPLIMENTARY FLIGHT TRIAL
$2,895 F.O.B. Burbank Aerospace Hangar
NUTRITIONAL ALCHEMY LABS PRODUCT BULLETIN V-12
ATOMIC PURITY 100% CALORIE
VITA-NOURISH ✦ Prime Rib ✦ Asparagus ✦ Baked Alaska

"VITA-NOURISH" CONCENTRATED MEAL PILLS

A Complete 7-Course Banquet in Three Sugar-Coated Morsels!

Why spend four sweltering hours in a kitchen when synthetic gastronomical physics can compress a Thanksgiving spread into the palm of your hand? Formulated with pure vitamin radiation to banish housewife exhaustion.

  • Zero Pots, Pans, or Dishes to scour after dinner!
  • 2,400 Balanced Calories with synthetic gastric satiety enzymes.
  • 12 Gourmet Menus including Lobster Thermidor & Peaches Flambé.
MOLECULAR DISPENSER SELECTOR MENU: ROAST TURKEY
✦ Calories: 2,400 • Weight: 1.4 grams • Dissolves in 30 seconds.
✂ SAMPLE DISPENSER TIN INCLUDED
$4.95 Canister of 90 Banquets
CYBERNETICS SERVO-DIVISION MARK IV "VALET-O-MATIC"
ASIMOV GRADE-1 SAFETY POLITE

THE "AUTOMATON MARK IV" ROBOT VALET

He Does Not Tire. He Does Not Complain. He Mixes the Perfect Martini.

Bring the gracious elegance of Victorian domestic service into the supersonic era! The Mark IV boasts a vocabulary of 350 deferential phrases and stainless steel gyroscope stabilization that never spills a drop of vermouth.

  • Precision Cocktail Shaker Arm with calibrated gin-to-dry ratios.
  • Ultrasonic Feather Duster disintegrates dust mites without scratching teak.
  • Polite English Accent Filter calibrated for high-society receptions.
BUTLER DISPATCH CONSOLE STATUS: AT YOUR SERVICE, SIR
✂ REQUEST FACTORY IN-HOME DEMONSTRATION
$1,850 Includes Silver Bowtie & Shaker
"THE JOURNAL OF SUBURBAN ATOMIC PROGRESS AND COSMIC COMMERCE"

THE ASTRODYNE CHRONICLE

VOL. XIV... No. 42 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1962 FINAL METROPOLITAN EDITION — PRICE 15 CENTS

LUNAR COMMUTING TO COMMENCE BY 1968: ASTRODYNE UNVEILS TRANQUILITY ESTATES

President Vance Outlines 45-Minute Orbital Shuttle Schedule for Subdivided Crater Communities; Modern Split-Levels Under Pressurized Geodesic Domes.
BY PRESTON C. HOLLINGSHEAD — SCIENCE EDITOR AT FLUSHING MEADOWS

NEW YORK — Speaking yesterday from the revolving sky-terrace of the Astrodyne Pavilion at the World's Fair Preview, Dr. Thaddeus Vance confirmed that civilian colonization of the Sea of Serenity is no longer the province of pulpy dime-novels. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 1968, commercial shuttle rockets will transport American families to fully air-conditioned subterranean neighborhoods.

"The Earth's turnpikes are crowded," Dr. Vance proclaimed before a gathered gallery of senators and foreign dignitaries. "Man was not designed by Providence to sit idly in bumper-to-bumper carbon-exhaust on the Long Island Expressway. Why suffer forty miles of commuter gridlock when you may breakfast on Earth and inspect your lunar mineral holdings before the noon luncheon?"

SUBDIVISION TRANQUILITY I
ARTIST'S CONCEPTION: A typical four-bedroom ranch home situated under Astrodyne's pressurized fluoride dome on the Moon, with the Earth visible in the twilight sky.

Each lunar residence will feature Astrodyne's closed-loop oxygen synthesizer and artificial gravity flooring calibrated to a comfortable 0.85 Earth-normal. Initial mortgages will be backed by the Federal Aerospace Home Loan Board at a modest 3.25 percent interest.

THE KITCHEN THAT CLEANS ITSELF

Ultrasonic Vaporizers and Food Synthesizers Promise Complete Homemaker Liberation.
BY MARJORIE CRANE — DOMESTIC SCIENCE

CLEVELAND — Housewives who have spent their youth over porcelain sinks with raw, dishwater hands may soon rejoice. Astrodyne's Consumer Products Laboratory has unveiled the "Sonic-Scour 2000."

Dinner plates placed within the chamber are struck by 45,000-cycle sound waves that atomize roast grease and gravy residue into harmless gaseous nitrogen in 12 seconds flat. No soap, no scalding water, and zero towel-drying required.

"The woman of 1965 will have ample time for bridge, oil-painting, and civic astronomy," noted Mrs. Vance during yesterday's demonstration.

SMOKE "ASTRO-FILTER"

Filtered with genuine rare-earth cerium crystals for cool atomic throat protection!

✦ Endorsed by Stratospheric Jet Pilots ✦

WALL STREET REPORT

Astrodyne Shares Rally as Asteroid Mining Dredge Completes Space Trials.
BY H. G. STERLING — FINANCIAL GAZETTE

Trading on the New York Aerospace Exchange reached dizzying heights this morning as ASTRODYNE INDUSTRIES (NYSE: ATD) surged four points to close at 148 1/2.

Institutional confidence was bolstered by news that the company's autonomous orbital refinery, anchored in low-Earth trajectory, has successfully extracted 400 tons of industrial-grade cobalt from an intercepted Apollo-family asteroid.

JUNIOR RAD-CADET CLUB

Boys! Earn an authentic aluminum Geiger counter badge and model rocket kit by saving coupons from Astrodyne meal canisters. Over 250,000 cadets already enrolled nationwide!

From an Akron Machine Shop to the Stars

ANNALS OF ASTRODYNE

Follow our journey through history — and into the projected glories of the 21st Century. Select an epoch below to inspect historical dossiers.

HISTORICAL LOG ENTRY #1944
PATENT NO. 2,411,892 — HIGH-PRESSURE REGULATOR

1944 A.D.

The Crucible of Akron

Working out of a converted two-car carriage house in Akron, Ohio, Dr. Thaddeus Vance patents the frictionless hydraulic valve for Allied stratospheric bombers. Astrodyne Tool & Die Company is officially incorporated with eight machinists.

MILESTONE: Contract Awarded by Army Air Corps Materiel Command.
Celestial Showroom Telemetry

ASTRO-NAV DEALER CONSTELLATION

Consult our celestial coordinate planisphere. Click any star cluster node to inspect localized showroom inventory, authorized flight hangars, and pneumatic routing codes.

NEW YORK (SECTOR 1) ★ CLEVELAND (HQ) CHICAGO (SECTOR 2) HOUSTON (SECTOR 3) BURBANK (SECTOR 4) SEATTLE (EXPO)
COORDINATES: 41.4993° N, 81.6944° W

CLEVELAND FOUNDRY & CENTRAL HQ

Astrodyne Tower, 1962 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH
TUBE ROUTE #01-CLE-MAIN
Col. Arthur Sterling, USAC (Ret.)
4 Gyrocopters Model-400 12 Hearth-Glow Generators 8 Robot Valets Mk-IV 120 Cartons Meal Pills
High-Velocity Correspondence

PNEUMATIC TUBE INQUIRY

Transmit your request directly to our central routing exchange. Depress the brass valve to propel your capsule through 400 miles of vacuum tubing at 900 feet per second.

ASTRO-01
✦ CAPSULE RECEIVED AT CENTRAL ROUTING TERMINAL #4 ✦

Telemetry confirmation: Your dossier has arrived via vacuum pressure. A field representative in a company Gyrocopter will deliver your 32-page full-color stereoscopic prospectus within 48 hours.

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