Cover of Russian magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for Youth)
Category: Weird Science
Secret Pyramid Base, 1967
Portable Radio Hat, 1931
Bumblebee Craft, 1933
The bumblebee craft was the product of a Belgian inventor. It was a flying machine with an immense air-sack at the rear, looking like the segmented abdomen of an insect. In landing, the machine was supposed to drop backward to the ground, striking on this air-bag, the segments of which would telescope together to break the fall!
Modern Mechanix, Sept, 1933
The Invisible Man
Solar Powered Aerial Landing Field, 1934
Modern Mechanix, October, 1934. Art by Norman Saunders
Japanese Concept Vehicles, 1936
Eric RUR the Robot, 1928
Japanese Snowcruiser
Warfare spreads into the Antarctic, obviously inspired by Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser “Big Bertha”