Modern Mechanix

I filed today's entry under Education, but it could conceivably go a whole bunch of other places, as well.

It's called Modern Mechanix: Yesterday's Tomorrow Today.

If you ever enjoyed reading an old Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, or Mechanics Illustrated, or just dig old stuff, you will LOVE this site!

It was a lot of fun for such magazines to predict the future back in the 30's. Here's an example:

As handy as a fountain pen, an electric vaporizer that works like a flashlight has been designed as a "pocket relief" for colds. In the head of the tiny metal case is a special bulb with two openings. A few drops of a nasal inhalant are inserted from the side. When the thumb switch is pressed, the "flashlight" batteries generate heat in the filaments of the bulb and vaporize the liquid, which is then inhaled from the top of the bulb, acting on congested nasal passages.

Now THERE's an object we're not all carrying in the 21st century!

There are hundreds more entries. Prepare to wast a lot of time.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/

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