Starting about 1920, Popular Science turned into a glorious magazine with all kinds of fantastical cover illustrations, and articles which breathlessly told us about the wonders soon to arrive (many of which have failed to ever show up). This all ended sometime in the late 1960s, with only occassional flashes of the old brilliance showing up. Those of us fascinated by the old issues have hunted them in second hand shops and eBay. Now, it turns out, Google's put all the back issues online. Sadly, you can't download any of the old issues, and searching through them is a bit hit or miss, but there's still plenty of fascinating stuff to keep you occupied for hours, clicking through the old issues.

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Cool... I used to save mine and occasionally go back and compare the predictions with reality. Moving from one house to another some years back, I donated about 20 years worth to the library starting with Nov 71. So now I can still look back.
Hey; dig the guy with the plaid pants and checkered tie

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Some friends of the family bought a house, and found underneath it some old Popular Science magazines (1920', 30's old). They were a bit moldy, and you had to be careful pulling the damp pages apart, but it was really cool.

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It's still a pretty good magazine, in my humble and often disagreed with opinion.

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Here are some articles that go back to the 1920s and '30s.

The search engine works for specific topics:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/index...opular+science

They've now added Popular Mechanics

Dig this lunar rocket cover from 1930!

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It looks just like the one from Woman on the Moon.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Did you look at p. 386, caption:

"Striking photograph of rocket scene from German Film 'The Woman in the Moon' [...]"

Who wrote all over that issue? Looked like someone was really into writing in the margins -- names, addresses, manufacturers. I wonder why. Seems like there was a lot of look-ups done. I can't even fgure out how you'd do that then -- maybe in a library with all the major cities phone books? That's work!

Or was this part of the production product of Popular Mechanics, a step done by collecting notes from the reporters, maybe to archive?

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I'm thinking that's the case. The scans of the various issues I've looked through for both magazines are all of nearly pristine copies. There's been a few minor page tears here and there, but in general, they're in better shape than you'd find in most public libraries (where someone would be liable to rip out articles/pages).

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Tuckers! Automotive Oddities! Building my hot rod with the help of the intarwebs Those who would delay scientific progress for a little temporary prosperity shall have neither. MachineCast Save the planet, by leaving it!

"FRAU IM MUND" (1929):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVLaD4vfBc

I did... after I'd made my post.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song