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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Toy Shop + +Author: Henry Maxwell Dempsey + +Illustrator: Brey + +Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22966] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOY SHOP *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 308px;"> +<img src="images/001.png" width="308" height="200" alt="TOY" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<div class="cpoem"><p> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">The gadget was strictly,</span><br /> +beyond any question, a toy.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Not a real, workable device.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;">Except for the way it could work</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;">under a man's mental skin....</span><br /> +</p> + +<h2>BY HARRY HARRISON</h2> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 388px; margin-bottom: 2em;"> +<img src="images/002.png" width="388" height="199" alt="SHOP" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<p>Because there were few adults in +the crowd, and Colonel "Biff" Hawton +stood over six feet tall, he could +see every detail of the demonstration. +The children—and most of the +parents—gaped in wide-eyed wonder. +Biff Hawton was too sophisticated +to be awed. He stayed on because +he wanted to find out what the +trick was that made the gadget work.</p> + +<p>"It's all explained right here in +your instruction book," the demonstrator +said, holding up a garishly +printed booklet opened to a four-color +diagram. "You all know how +magnets pick up things and I bet +you even know that the earth itself is +one great big magnet—that's why +compasses always point north. Well +... the Atomic Wonder Space +Wave Tapper hangs onto those space +waves. Invisibly all about us, and +even going right through us, are the +magnetic waves of the earth. The +Atomic Wonder rides these waves +just the way a ship rides the waves +in the ocean. Now watch...."</p> + +<p>Every eye was on him as he put the +gaudy model rocketship on top of the +table and stepped back. It was made +of stamped metal and seemed as incapable +of flying as a can of ham—which +it very much resembled. Neither +wings, propellors, nor jets broke +through the painted surface. It rested +on three rubber wheels and coming +out through the bottom was a double +strand of thin insulated wire. This +white wire ran across the top of the +black table and terminated in a control +box in the demonstrator's hand. +An indicator light, a switch and a +knob appeared to be the only controls.</p> + +<p>"I turn on the Power Switch, sending +a surge of current to the Wave +Receptors," he said. The switch +clicked and the light blinked on and +off with a steady pulse. Then the +man began to slowly turn the knob. +"A careful touch on the Wave Generator +is necessary as we are dealing +with the powers of the whole world +here...."</p> + +<p>A concerted <i>ahhhh</i> swept through +the crowd as the Space Wave Tapper +shivered a bit, then rose slowly into +the air. The demonstrator stepped +back and the toy rose higher and +higher, bobbing gently on the invisible +waves of magnetic force that +supported it. Ever so slowly the power +was reduced and it settled back to +the table.</p> + +<p>"Only $17.95," the young man +said, putting a large price sign on the +table. "For the complete set of the +Atomic Wonder, the Space Tapper +control box, battery and instruction +book ..."</p> + +<p>At the appearance of the price +card the crowd broke up noisily and +the children rushed away towards the +operating model trains. The demonstrator's +words were lost in their +noisy passage, and after a moment he +sank into a gloomy silence. He put +the control box down, yawned and +sat on the edge of the table. Colonel +Hawton was the only one left after +the crowd had moved on.</p> + +<p>"Could you tell me how this thing +works?" the colonel asked, coming +forward. The demonstrator brightened +up and picked up one of the +toys.</p> + +<p>"Well, if you will look here, +sir...." He opened the hinged top. +"You will see the Space Wave coils +at each end of the ship." With a pencil +he pointed out the odd shaped +plastic forms about an inch in diameter +that had been wound—apparently +at random—with a few turns of +copper wire. Except for these coils +the interior of the model was empty. +The coils were wired together and +other wires ran out through the hole +in the bottom of the control box. +Biff Hawton turned a very quizzical +eye on the gadget and upon the demonstrator +who completely ignored this +sign of disbelief.</p> + +<p>"Inside the control box is the battery," +the young man said, snapping +it open and pointing to an ordinary +flashlight battery. "The current goes +through the Power Switch and Power +Light to the Wave Generator ..."</p> + +<p>"What you mean to say," Biff +broke in, "is that the juice from this +fifteen cent battery goes through this +cheap rheostat to those meaningless +coils in the model and absolutely +nothing happens. Now tell me what +really flies the thing. If I'm going to +drop eighteen bucks for six-bits +worth of tin, I want to know what +I'm getting."</p> + +<p>The demonstrator flushed. "I'm +sorry, sir," he stammered. "I wasn't +trying to hide anything. Like any +magic trick this one can't be really +demonstrated until it has been purchased." +He leaned forward and whispered +confidentially. "I'll tell you +what I'll do though. This thing is way +overpriced and hasn't been moving at +all. The manager said I could let them +go at three dollars if I could find any +takers. If you want to buy it for that +price...."</p> + +<p>"Sold, my boy!" the colonel said, +slamming three bills down on the +table. "I'll give that much for it no +matter <i>how</i> it works. The boys in the +shop will get a kick out of it," he +tapped the winged rocket on his +chest. "Now <i>really</i>—what holds it +up?"</p> + +<p>The demonstrator looked around +carefully, then pointed. "Strings!" he +said. "Or rather a black thread. It +runs from the top of the model, +through a tiny loop in the ceiling, +and back down to my hand—tied to +this ring on my finger. When I back +up—the model rises. It's as simple as +that."</p> + +<p>"All good illusions are simple," +the colonel grunted, tracing the black +thread with his eye. "As long as +there is plenty of flimflam to distract +the viewer."</p> + +<p>"If you don't have a black table, a +black cloth will do," the young man +said. "And the arch of a doorway is a +good site, just see that the room in +back is dark."</p> + +<p>"Wrap it up, my boy, I wasn't born +yesterday. I'm an old hand at this +kind of thing."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Biff Hawton sprang it at the next +Thursday-night poker party. The +gang were all missile men and they +cheered and jeered as he hammed +up the introduction.</p> + +<p>"Let me copy the diagram, Biff, I +could use some of those magnetic +waves in the new bird!"</p> + +<p>"Those flashlight batteries are +cheaper than lox, this is the thing of +the future!"</p> + +<p>Only Teddy Kaner caught wise as +the flight began. He was an amateur +magician and spotted the gimmick at +once. He kept silent with professional +courtesy, and smiled ironically as +the rest of the bunch grew silent one +by one. The colonel was a good showman +and he had set the scene well. +He almost had them believing in the +Space Wave Tapper before he was +through. When the model had landed +and he had switched it off he couldn't +stop them from crowding around +the table.</p> + +<p>"A thread!" one of the engineers +shouted, almost with relief, and they +all laughed along with him.</p> + +<p>"Too bad," the head project physicist +said, "I was hoping that a little +Space Wave Tapping could help us +out. Let me try a flight with it."</p> + +<p>"Teddy Kaner first," Biff announced. +"He spotted it while you +were all watching the flashing lights, +only he didn't say anything."</p> + +<p>Kaner slipped the ring with the +black thread over his finger and started +to step back.</p> + +<p>"You have to turn the switch on +first," Biff said.</p> + +<p>"I know," Kaner smiled. "But +that's part of illusion—the spiel and +the misdirection. I'm going to try +this cold first, so I can get it moving +up and down smoothly, then go +through it with the whole works."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 593px;"> +<img src="images/003.png" width="593" height="550" alt="" title="" /> +ILLUSTRATED BY BREY</div> + +<p>He moved his hand back smoothly, +in a professional manner that drew +no attention to it. The model lifted +from the table—then crashed back +down.</p> + +<p>"The thread broke," Kaner said.</p> + +<p>"You jerked it, instead of pulling +smoothly," Biff said and knotted the +broken thread. "Here let me show +you how to do it."</p> + +<p>The thread broke again when Biff +tried it, which got a good laugh that +made his collar a little warm. Someone +mentioned the poker game.</p> + +<p>This was the only time that poker +was mentioned or even remembered +that night. Because very soon after +this they found that the thread would +lift the model only when the switch +was on and two and a half volts +flowing through the joke coils. With +the current turned off the model was +too heavy to lift. The thread broke +every time.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>"I still think it's a screwy idea," +the young man said. "One week getting +fallen arches, demonstrating +those toy ships for every brat within +a thousand miles. Then selling the +things for three bucks when they +must have cost at least a hundred dollars +apiece to make."</p> + +<p>"But you <i>did</i> sell the ten of them +to people who would be interested?" +the older man asked.</p> + +<p>"I think so, I caught a few Air +Force officers and a colonel in missiles +one day. Then there was one official +I remembered from the Bureau +of Standards. Luckily he didn't recognize +me. Then those two professors +you spotted from the university."</p> + +<p>"Then the problem is out of our +hands and into theirs. All we have to +do now is sit back and wait for results."</p> + +<p>"<i>What</i> results?! These people +weren't interested when we were +hammering on their doors with the +proof. We've patented the coils and +can prove to anyone that there is a +reduction in weight around them +when they are operating...."</p> + +<p>"But a small reduction. And we +don't know what is causing it. No +one can be interested in a thing like +that—a fractional weight decrease in +a clumsy model, certainly not enough +to lift the weight of the generator. +No one wrapped up in massive fuel +consumption, tons of lift and such is +going to have time to worry about a +crackpot who thinks he has found a +minor slip in Newton's laws."</p> + +<p>"You think they will now?" the +young man asked, cracking his knuckles +impatiently.</p> + +<p>"I <i>know</i> they will. The tensile +strength of that thread is correctly adjusted +to the weight of the model. +The thread will break if you try to +lift the model with it. Yet you can +lift the model—after a small increment +of its weight has been removed +by the coils. This is going to bug +these men. Nobody is going to ask +them to solve the problem or concern +themselves with it. But it will +nag at them because they know this +effect can't possibly exist. They'll see +at once that the magnetic-wave theory +is nonsense. Or perhaps true? We +don't know. But they will all be +thinking about it and worrying about +it. Someone is going to experiment +in his basement—just as a hobby of +course—to find the cause of the error. +And he or someone else is going +to find out what makes those coils +work, or maybe a way to improve +them!"</p> + +<p>"And we have the patents...."</p> + +<p>"Correct. They will be doing the +research that will take them out of +the massive-lift-propulsion business +and into the field of pure space +flight."</p> + +<p>"And in doing so they will be making +us rich—whenever the time +comes to manufacture," the young +man said cynically.</p> + +<p>"We'll all be rich, son," the older +man said, patting him on the shoulder. +"Believe me, you're not going to +recognize this old world ten years +from now."</p> + + + +<div class="trans1"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b><br /> +This etext was produced from <i>Analog</i> April 1962. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Toy Shop + +Author: Henry Maxwell Dempsey + +Illustrator: Brey + +Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22966] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOY SHOP *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: TOY] + + The gadget was strictly, + beyond any question, a toy. + Not a real, workable device. + Except for the way it could work + under a man's mental skin.... + + BY HARRY HARRISON + +[Illustration: SHOP] + + +Because there were few adults in the crowd, and Colonel "Biff" Hawton +stood over six feet tall, he could see every detail of the +demonstration. The children--and most of the parents--gaped in wide-eyed +wonder. Biff Hawton was too sophisticated to be awed. He stayed on +because he wanted to find out what the trick was that made the gadget +work. + +"It's all explained right here in your instruction book," the +demonstrator said, holding up a garishly printed booklet opened to a +four-color diagram. "You all know how magnets pick up things and I bet +you even know that the earth itself is one great big magnet--that's why +compasses always point north. Well ... the Atomic Wonder Space Wave +Tapper hangs onto those space waves. Invisibly all about us, and even +going right through us, are the magnetic waves of the earth. The Atomic +Wonder rides these waves just the way a ship rides the waves in the +ocean. Now watch...." + +Every eye was on him as he put the gaudy model rocketship on top of the +table and stepped back. It was made of stamped metal and seemed as +incapable of flying as a can of ham--which it very much resembled. +Neither wings, propellors, nor jets broke through the painted surface. +It rested on three rubber wheels and coming out through the bottom was a +double strand of thin insulated wire. This white wire ran across the top +of the black table and terminated in a control box in the demonstrator's +hand. An indicator light, a switch and a knob appeared to be the only +controls. + +"I turn on the Power Switch, sending a surge of current to the Wave +Receptors," he said. The switch clicked and the light blinked on and off +with a steady pulse. Then the man began to slowly turn the knob. "A +careful touch on the Wave Generator is necessary as we are dealing with +the powers of the whole world here...." + +A concerted _ahhhh_ swept through the crowd as the Space Wave Tapper +shivered a bit, then rose slowly into the air. The demonstrator stepped +back and the toy rose higher and higher, bobbing gently on the invisible +waves of magnetic force that supported it. Ever so slowly the power was +reduced and it settled back to the table. + +"Only $17.95," the young man said, putting a large price sign on the +table. "For the complete set of the Atomic Wonder, the Space Tapper +control box, battery and instruction book ..." + +At the appearance of the price card the crowd broke up noisily and the +children rushed away towards the operating model trains. The +demonstrator's words were lost in their noisy passage, and after a +moment he sank into a gloomy silence. He put the control box down, +yawned and sat on the edge of the table. Colonel Hawton was the only one +left after the crowd had moved on. + +"Could you tell me how this thing works?" the colonel asked, coming +forward. The demonstrator brightened up and picked up one of the toys. + +"Well, if you will look here, sir...." He opened the hinged top. "You +will see the Space Wave coils at each end of the ship." With a pencil he +pointed out the odd shaped plastic forms about an inch in diameter that +had been wound--apparently at random--with a few turns of copper wire. +Except for these coils the interior of the model was empty. The coils +were wired together and other wires ran out through the hole in the +bottom of the control box. Biff Hawton turned a very quizzical eye on +the gadget and upon the demonstrator who completely ignored this sign of +disbelief. + +"Inside the control box is the battery," the young man said, snapping it +open and pointing to an ordinary flashlight battery. "The current goes +through the Power Switch and Power Light to the Wave Generator ..." + +"What you mean to say," Biff broke in, "is that the juice from this +fifteen cent battery goes through this cheap rheostat to those +meaningless coils in the model and absolutely nothing happens. Now tell +me what really flies the thing. If I'm going to drop eighteen bucks for +six-bits worth of tin, I want to know what I'm getting." + +The demonstrator flushed. "I'm sorry, sir," he stammered. "I wasn't +trying to hide anything. Like any magic trick this one can't be really +demonstrated until it has been purchased." He leaned forward and +whispered confidentially. "I'll tell you what I'll do though. This +thing is way overpriced and hasn't been moving at all. The manager said +I could let them go at three dollars if I could find any takers. If you +want to buy it for that price...." + +"Sold, my boy!" the colonel said, slamming three bills down on the +table. "I'll give that much for it no matter _how_ it works. The boys in +the shop will get a kick out of it," he tapped the winged rocket on his +chest. "Now _really_--what holds it up?" + +The demonstrator looked around carefully, then pointed. "Strings!" he +said. "Or rather a black thread. It runs from the top of the model, +through a tiny loop in the ceiling, and back down to my hand--tied to +this ring on my finger. When I back up--the model rises. It's as simple +as that." + +"All good illusions are simple," the colonel grunted, tracing the black +thread with his eye. "As long as there is plenty of flimflam to distract +the viewer." + +"If you don't have a black table, a black cloth will do," the young man +said. "And the arch of a doorway is a good site, just see that the room +in back is dark." + +"Wrap it up, my boy, I wasn't born yesterday. I'm an old hand at this +kind of thing." + + * * * * * + +Biff Hawton sprang it at the next Thursday-night poker party. The gang +were all missile men and they cheered and jeered as he hammed up the +introduction. + +"Let me copy the diagram, Biff, I could use some of those magnetic waves +in the new bird!" + +"Those flashlight batteries are cheaper than lox, this is the thing of +the future!" + +Only Teddy Kaner caught wise as the flight began. He was an amateur +magician and spotted the gimmick at once. He kept silent with +professional courtesy, and smiled ironically as the rest of the bunch +grew silent one by one. The colonel was a good showman and he had set +the scene well. He almost had them believing in the Space Wave Tapper +before he was through. When the model had landed and he had switched it +off he couldn't stop them from crowding around the table. + +"A thread!" one of the engineers shouted, almost with relief, and they +all laughed along with him. + +"Too bad," the head project physicist said, "I was hoping that a little +Space Wave Tapping could help us out. Let me try a flight with it." + +"Teddy Kaner first," Biff announced. "He spotted it while you were all +watching the flashing lights, only he didn't say anything." + +Kaner slipped the ring with the black thread over his finger and started +to step back. + +"You have to turn the switch on first," Biff said. + +"I know," Kaner smiled. "But that's part of illusion--the spiel and the +misdirection. I'm going to try this cold first, so I can get it moving +up and down smoothly, then go through it with the whole works." + +[Illustration: ILLUSTRATED BY BREY] + +He moved his hand back smoothly, in a professional manner that drew no +attention to it. The model lifted from the table--then crashed back +down. + +"The thread broke," Kaner said. + +"You jerked it, instead of pulling smoothly," Biff said and knotted the +broken thread. "Here let me show you how to do it." + +The thread broke again when Biff tried it, which got a good laugh that +made his collar a little warm. Someone mentioned the poker game. + +This was the only time that poker was mentioned or even remembered that +night. Because very soon after this they found that the thread would +lift the model only when the switch was on and two and a half volts +flowing through the joke coils. With the current turned off the model +was too heavy to lift. The thread broke every time. + + * * * * * + +"I still think it's a screwy idea," the young man said. "One week +getting fallen arches, demonstrating those toy ships for every brat +within a thousand miles. Then selling the things for three bucks when +they must have cost at least a hundred dollars apiece to make." + +"But you _did_ sell the ten of them to people who would be interested?" +the older man asked. + +"I think so, I caught a few Air Force officers and a colonel in missiles +one day. Then there was one official I remembered from the Bureau of +Standards. Luckily he didn't recognize me. Then those two professors you +spotted from the university." + +"Then the problem is out of our hands and into theirs. All we have to do +now is sit back and wait for results." + +"_What_ results?! These people weren't interested when we were hammering +on their doors with the proof. We've patented the coils and can prove to +anyone that there is a reduction in weight around them when they are +operating...." + +"But a small reduction. And we don't know what is causing it. No one can +be interested in a thing like that--a fractional weight decrease in a +clumsy model, certainly not enough to lift the weight of the generator. +No one wrapped up in massive fuel consumption, tons of lift and such is +going to have time to worry about a crackpot who thinks he has found a +minor slip in Newton's laws." + +"You think they will now?" the young man asked, cracking his knuckles +impatiently. + +"I _know_ they will. The tensile strength of that thread is correctly +adjusted to the weight of the model. The thread will break if you try to +lift the model with it. Yet you can lift the model--after a small +increment of its weight has been removed by the coils. This is going to +bug these men. Nobody is going to ask them to solve the problem or +concern themselves with it. But it will nag at them because they know +this effect can't possibly exist. They'll see at once that the +magnetic-wave theory is nonsense. Or perhaps true? We don't know. But +they will all be thinking about it and worrying about it. Someone is +going to experiment in his basement--just as a hobby of course--to find +the cause of the error. And he or someone else is going to find out what +makes those coils work, or maybe a way to improve them!" + +"And we have the patents...." + +"Correct. They will be doing the research that will take them out of the +massive-lift-propulsion business and into the field of pure space +flight." + +"And in doing so they will be making us rich--whenever the time comes to +manufacture," the young man said cynically. + +"We'll all be rich, son," the older man said, patting him on the +shoulder. "Believe me, you're not going to recognize this old world ten +years from now." + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Analog_ April 1962. Extensive research + did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this + publication was renewed. 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