15 Some brief disclosures of the House itself as it will appear in the market.
2Separately marketable building products.
3 In the automobile industry accessories were at first left off and tendered to the consumer as fitting Xmas presents or other tokens of esteem, selfish or otherwise. Today the automobile industry ‘‘builds in’’ its accessories in their logical functionary place, properly proportioned to the scale of the particular car. No Fords are now being marketed to which Locomobile sized bumpers are ridiculously applied. The fitting bumper is ‘‘built in’’. So will the new industrial home, taking a page from the graph of progress, build in its accessories. In the old days, when but a few had fine linen and cut glass, was it the mode to self-consciously, or ostentaciously exhibit them upon the table. Now these are no longer marks of individualism in themselves, outside of their indication of decency, and are subject to rapid replacement, when as pleasant forms are substituted embodying less drudgery or waste.
4 Those familiar with the antics of the furniture business, which daily leaps more rapidly to present a freak so much more freakish than anything else previously devised as to be hopeful of affording a moment of quantity production, will realize the knot that the furniture industry is unnecessarily tying about itself. One furniture manufacturer has lately ‘‘hit’’ upon a wonder that none other had thought of, - the glorification of the wicker furniture. So light and economical as to manufacture and handling, with so small a cost of blatent decorative features has this turned out to be, that its manufacturer finds himself one year behind in production. By the law of economics such light weight, low cost furniture will be the style until the new home, with its built in furniture is marketed.
5 Weighed one against the other, and considering the delight of the solution, will we still insist in making beds, lest we provide bed-bug incubators, when we find bed coverings to be no more necessary than sweeping or laundrying? When the atmospheric condition of our house is found to be completely under control, is it seen that we may sleep on our pneumatic couch with all the volume and soft flowing pleasantness of springtime air about us, free of dust or offensive odor, embodying the proper proportion of moisture and delivered about us, as no draughty, uncontrolled, window admitted, current can ever hope to do. With such air properly temperatured will we have no more need of cover than we would in lying beside a summer pool. We need have no covers to chafe, bind or impede complete relaxation in our soundproof bed chamber, with its pneumatic floors and partitions. The beds are finished in highly decorative linen, washable silk or paper development of counterpane only. This single covering is fitted over the pneumatic bed inflated to the exact compression that is neither too hard for comfort or too soft to prevent proper airiation about the body. Will the family object to such drudgery proof features, when they make possible so much more time for recreation and on the other hand provide such excellent conditions in themselves?
6 The 4-D drudgery-proof home, erectable in one day, complete in every detail, with every living appliance known to mankind, built-in, such as have been available hitherto only in hotels, hospitals, liners, and other points where mass purchase has made them possible, 100% improved by delicacy of 4 D design.
7 Complete Grill with electric-vac cooking, fireless cooker, electric refrigerator, dishwashing machine, sink, and indirect lighting storage for pots, dishes, and foods all within glass front and glass shelved cases; with grill counter for hurried meals, as well as table in grill for formal meals. (The bestial Bacchanalian feature of the latter is economically dying though more intensely practiced than ever by dwindling feudalism).
8 Complete laundry unit including washer (electric) centrifugal wringer, hot air drier, electric ironing equipment, all similar to industrial laundry reduced to home capacity for production, with tub for fine laundering, it being arranged that instead of storing dirty linen awaiting the drudgery of washing, that dirty linen be immediately thrown in the laundry machine which will automatically wash, rinse, wring, and hang the linen in the hot air drier until the householder is ready to iron at convenient times, thus preventing clothes from deteriorating from dirt and rot. The sanitary considerations are obvious. Clothes will be increasingly devised that obviate the necessity of the ironing drudgery for fallacious desirability of ‘‘flatness’’, the very word fiat, whether applied to living quarters or plain nothingness, is truly flatulent.
9 Garage complete with compressed air for tire inflation and air brushing, washing gear, etc., lathe, tools, vice, etc., machine shop, laboratory, etc., all built in; trunk storage in ceiling of garage, on chain hoist platform.'Then latter gear for hoisting car or airplane when house is on high tower.
10 The rooms of the house are ideal for babies. No floor cracks, hard or cold floors to bump on - draughts - or splinters - or furniture to fall down.
11 In living room combination, desk, filing cabinet, typewriter, calculating machine, telephone, radio-television receiver, dictaphone, stationary and book, and valuable safe and phonograph, all in one factory- assembled ‘‘utility of choice unitary’’.
12 Exterior walls of house to have the 4-D vacuum panes of ultra-violet-admission, thermal-and-sound- exclusion, unbreakable, transparent, translucent, or opaque glass.
13 Atmospheric condition - house to be automatically ventilated, with all dust removed from air and correct humidity provided and proper proportion of new air provided constantly, with temperature controlled at desired degree at all times, day or night, winter or summer, in the tropics or the polar regions no bed covers necessary. Revolving doors - all atmospheric transfer accurately controlled.
14 All floors to be of the 4-D steel-piano-wire-tension, air-arch-compression, pneumatic type, leather fabricoid covering (Similar to walking on football), sound proof and shock proof, of room temperature.
15 Partitions to be also pneumatic with transparent, translucent, or opaque outer casing, absolutely soundproof and unshatterable. All doors to be of overhead roller, inflation, or revolving type.
16 All ceilings to be of 9 foot height;
17 All artificial lighting to be indirect and of any intensity from complete darkness to exquisite brightness, and of any colour desirable, from central lighting system, through refraction by mirrors and prisms through the ceilings of all rooms;
18 Same centralized lighting system to provide heat radiation (instead of wasting intense light as in furnaces). Central light at each floor height in center of room clusters, heat to be blown out by air ventilating system through ceilings into rooms, and drawn off around edges of floors by vacuum intake lines, thus circulating all heat downward for efficient diffusion, and drawing smoke and dust down and away from nostrils and out of room, no offensive odors possible.
19 Compressed air outlets at every room (similar Allemite plugs) for air brush connections. Roof of vacuum panes also.
20 Two bath rooms, complete with shower, tub and every appurtenance, even to scales, violet ray light, direct sun light from overhead in bathrooms through ultra violet ray glass, and vacuum electric hair clipper and vacuum tooth brush, chinning bar, etc.
21 Every home complete with own sewage disposal tanks, fuel oil tanks, diesel engine, electric generator, storage batteries, motors, artesian well, water pump, water softener, water heater, with thermal mixing valve (Can set dial at any temperature desired) (Fahrenheit scale at outlet and will spout at that temperature). Air compressor and vacuum motor, with vacuum and compressed air tanks, air filters and humidifiers, chemical air gas filters, electrical clocks in all rooms (soundless).
22 No cellar, house to be mounted on central base, in which are septic tanks and oil storage below ground, house to be supported by central caisson mast (similar to cage mast of battleship, or lighthouse, or airship tower) securely bolted to base.
23 House or floor levels may be suspended at any point in elevation on the central tower, if in flood regions extra sections of mast to be provided to place living quarters above danger zone; in dry country house may be on ground level, though high tower houses, with elevators may also be had for view purposes.
24 House absolutely proof against earthquake, flood, fire, gas attack, dirt, pestilence, and cyclone. To the extent that any of these dangers have yet demonstrated themselves.
25 Radio burglar alarm and television connection to be ultimately provided, being on metallic tower can also be left with ‘‘live’’ wire protection.
26 Where local sewerage, water and power connections are available, and rates satisfactory, credit will be given for the elimination of any units, but the house is absolutely self-supporting, lacking these facilities.
27 Where oil supplies are limited, Fletner air mill may be provided for power storage in batteries.
28 A minimum of heat and energy loss is obtained there being only the loss through air changing over metallic heat transfer fins between incoming and outgoing air.
29 Operating cost extremely low. All metal used is rust or corrosion proof, no inflamable material in the whole composition of house.
30 House designed on a module basis, everything being of this unit, that is, all structural units and connections of utility units manifolded so as to be interchangeably connected;
31 No pointing, plastering, or adjusting to be done on final location of house, all done in factory. No plastering at all. Every unit universally serviceable and replaceable by improved unit as they are developed.
32 House to be delivered by its service station first planting the tank base and drilling the artesian well, then delivering and raising the caison mast (6 x 6 x 24’ a truck and railcar transportable size), rigging out the head trusses and hanging the floors and partitions and utility units. All arterial pumping and filtering units or nervous system affixed in caisson mast at factory.
33 All functions have been segregated as in human body. Skeleton tower of size necessary only to carry weight, all else depended therefrom independently, nothing piled or stuck together. All materials or units interchangeable commercially, and therefore a house with second-hand value equivalent to the value of the elemental materials themselves, provided design is originally correct and honest and uncheapened by stylistic bunk.
34 There will come the time in the not distant future when the new home will be delivered by air over the straight-line route to the attractive and usually inaccessible points. This is well considered by 4th Dimensional design.
35 Thus is provided a home wherein the real individualism of man and his family may be developed, as minimum of time is given to what he has to do, willy nilly, eat, sleep, and be clean. With so much time and such perfect privacy of the most minor member of the family, when desired, the minds will be turned to a more philosophical and rhythmical contemplation of life. There will be no more the selfishness and deceit born of the uncontrollable desire for the avoidance of drudgery. Creation will set in as never before. People will, by attending to their job or duty to others, and decent saving, be able to retire within a short period and to subsist unwastefully, which is the eventuality of our industrial progress and elimination of work or temporal slavery. Time will be given to travel, research, artistic creation and contemplation, and athletics as never before, not one of which is a time wasteful pursuit in itself.
36 All 4-D Utility Units as they will be known, are combinations of complete solutions of the separate things which we do in life: i.e., what we have to do, EAT, SLEEP, and CLEAN ourselves - CLEAN our clothes, CLEAN our home and CLEAN our equipment; what we choose to do WORK or PLAY, mentally or physically.
37 Particularly in the things we have to do is there a best logical arrangement of functions, just as much as there is in a factory. We therefore have a definite problem to solve in each of these departments. This has been done, and though there will, even as in all things, be improvements in composition from time to time, the characteristic features, just as essentially characteristic as our eyes, ears, and noses, and just as logically relative in location, have been worked out, and patents broadly applied for covering the manufacture, distribution, and sale.
38 Utility units are manufactured and delivered in toto, for modular, manifold hookup and no further adjustment. Their floors are of course integral with these utility units; and all of them being cleaning or assortment points, the avoidance of floor cracks will be obviously advantageous. The UNIT ARTERIAL SYSTEMS, THE UNIT SUPPORT TOWERS for standard areas of clusters of rooms (one or more clusters can easily be combined). THE PNEUMATIC FLOORING SYSTEM, AND THE ISOLATION PANELS, for ail vertical surfaces are for isolation purposes of one kind or another. All these standardized modular patented units can and will be sold by already organized vested interests, licensed by 4 D for individual sales on a royalty basis by those vested interests, under the 4 D trademark, they being perfectly marketable units in themselves, for incorporation into large city building and renovation of antiquated structures.
39 By segregation of these functionary units the business for all concerned will be multitudiously increased, beyond the conception of anyone connected with organized industry today. Families will be able to afford several homes in different parts of the world. Transportation, distribution, or broadcasting systems, ethereal, or material, are all organized and waiting for the decentralization and standardization of homes. They will develop miraculously. Even localism and nationalism will soon disappear.
40 Progress must be by creation, by debunking, by industrially enforced recognition of the fact, that individualism of character and expression is not of material things, but of the world of abstract things, thoughts, words, rhythm, love, education, will or won’t, truth or deceit, all of which are abstract. Those are the things which we can choose or be individually expressive in. Material affairs can be handled in but one best mechanical way, as science is so rapidly teaching us. These reasons account for the prophecy that eventually the stock market will become the voting place, by virtue of purchase or sale, of all material or temporal affairs. Industry must replace politics for the law of economics demands that all activity must be progressively profitable. Politics is neither profitable nor universally beneficial. All law will eventually resolve itself into the natural laws, for you cannot legislate truth, or individualism. All that can be done positively is to harmonize, and negatively to make discordant.
41 The world rightfully craves and fights for its individual expression, but it is still so self conscious or selfish, or so lacking in faith in God, or, in more worldly expression, so busy minding the other fellows business, and so afraid nature is going to put one over on it, that it fails to observe that nature, or the material world of God, which is billions of years old has in the course of time solved every mechanical problem, and completely segregated every function and material in the construction of the human being, and therefore they are as materially alike as two peas, none with noses in the middle of the back, etc. Slowly nature has centralized production through industry, and taken the one best mechanical way of doing something, originally available to the few only, and made it available to all who will. Hats are the same, shoes are the same, stockings are the same, always becoming lighter and lighter, and wearing better and better, but always more alike, except in color, texture, odor, etc., the harmonic properties. The home is the same. The house and all its functions are material and therefore solvable in but one best way. What makes a house into a home is the spiritual and abstract. This fact is bursting through all over the world, amongst the non-stylistic, hopeful ‘‘young moderns’’, the marvelous outgrowth of the flapping age of undescernability. No more keeping up with the Jones about them; no bunk; no secrets; speaking the truth unconsciously; knowing the mechanical truths unconsciously, born in them. The dawning of a great and new age.