Popular Science entire137 year archive for free viewing

[VinnyR11]

The Popular Science Site says it best:

 

We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives.

 

Every issue from their 137 years is there to browse. They're still working on more search functions. You can't go directly to individual issues yet, but I entered the year I was interested in and started browsing. Very easy to get caught up in the tech of the day, and awed by how far we've come in so little time.

 

Fun way to pass some time.

[AviP]

Very nice. Thanks.

[David]

I used to read that thing as a kid and it was a constant source of wonder.

[Paul Mihalka]

I've read a lot of Popular Science and I learned a lot of my American English reading Tom McCahill in Popular Mechanix. - "A Crossley Hotshot can go 70 mph, but it feels like going down the Niagara Falls in a barrel"

[russell_bynum]

I used to read that thing as a kid and it was a constant source of wonder.

 

Same here.

 

 

This is cool!

[bakerzdosen]

I used to read that thing as a kid and it was a constant source of wonder.

 

Same here.

 

 

This is cool!

+1.

 

I wanted to buy EVERYTHING advertised in back (eg hoovercraft projects etc). Kinda like Boys Life for slightly older boys.

 

I ended up with a subscription for our 9 year old. It's been good (and he does actually read it) except for when he comes up and says "Mom have you ever seen..." That usually means something along the lines of a pigs heart in mid-dissection and a grossed out wife, but it's a small price to pay.

[ltljohn]

Thanks for the time machine!!!!.

I just read an interesting article on brake fade from 1959. They also mentioned a fancy new thing from the Mercury and Edsel models that automatically adjusts your brakes when driving in reverse. There was also mention of an experimental thing that would ease the braking just before the wheel skids.

[VinnyR11]

Searching text within issues is surprisingly accurate. Considering that most of this was scanned vs. digital, and some of the text is odd fonts within ads, the text recognition is terrific.

 

Zillions of great quotes/old tech stories. Just read this one:

"You get a funny feeling when you climb into a '51 Ford and can't find a clutch pedal." Interesting article on one of the first practical applications for torque converters in cars.

 

 

 

 

[rocks]

Very cool,

My Dad always had a subscription while I was growing up...

Pretty amazing going back to the month and year of your birth and seeing how much has changed in a "short" time...

[ESokoloff]

....Pretty amazing going back to the month and year of your birth and seeing how much has changed in a "short" time...

 

 

OR NOT as was the case when I viewed my birth issue.

 

The idea of TPMS was conceived nearly 50 years before it became mainstream.