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Category: Technology
It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread! (1930)
Autos: Past & Future, 1931
From the article”What will Your Next Car Look Like?” Modern Mechanix, Feb, 1931
One Day Soon, 1952
17 years later, they did…
From Space, Time and Rockets, by Rheta Randolf and Catherine Barry. Illustrated by Stain, Jacque.
Wireless Private Phone, 1930
A view of what communications could look like in the future.
Turbine Rocket Ship, 1931
Prof. Goddard’s Turbine Rocket Ship For Flight To Moon, from Popular Science, December 1931
L.W. Witry Tractor Patent, 1930
Lightning Test, 1940s
Westinghouse Electric Corporation testing the effects of lightning on an automobile, where 3 million volts strike the roof of a steel-topped car.
Infrared Fog Light, 1934
Floating Mid-Ocean City, 1931
A proposed $2,000,000 mid-ocean city to be established midway between Bordeaux, France and St. Johns, Newfoundland. The outer steel network would act as a breakwater, and the harbor inside would serve as a trans-Atlantic hydroplane station.
