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Post by slowroll on Dec 15, 2018 19:44:45 GMT -5

Lately i've been scrounging old mags in .pdf format off the internet. I'm fond of reading about what was considered high tech 100 years ago, and of course old aviation and electrical mags. Here's a link to a popular science msg of long ago. books.google.com/books?id=ICkDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Popular+science+1915&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHp4SXoo7fAhWSo1kKHV7XBAY4ChDoATAHegQIARAf#v=onepage&q=Popular%20science%201915&f=true

Here's one for old electrical mags,
www.americanradiohistory.com/Electrical_Experimenter.htm
Piles of stuff on the Smithsonian website also. Things like popular science and popular mechanics can be found by just googling the mag name and a year -- eg: popular science 1920 for example, will turn up tons available on Google play books.

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pepesdad1 Pro Member Posts: 11,771 First Name: Walt Favorite Pipe: RdPipes Favorite Tobacco: "old" Condor, VaPers, Lakelands Location:	Old magazines... Dec 15, 2018 20:45:13 GMT -5 Ronv69 and Legend Lover like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 15, 2018 20:45:13 GMT -5 Remember the cool stuff you could order...rockets and guns and all kinds of cool stuff...steam engines that worked even decoder rings...those were some wonderful days.

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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 15, 2018 20:54:38 GMT -5

I had a subscription to Popular Mechanics and Popular Science from age 10 until I moved out of my mom's house. I wish I still had some of those old ones. Their invention predictions were right on the money.

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Dec 15, 2018 20:54:38 GMT -5 Ronv69 said:

I had a subscription to Popular Mechanics and Popular Science from age 10 until I moved out of my mom's house. I wish I still had some of those old ones. Their invention predictions were right on the money.

...I worked for the science editor of Popular Mechanics magazine many moons ago in NYC... lots of typing involved...

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Dec 15, 2018 20:45:13 GMT -5 pepesdad1 said:

Remember the cool stuff you could order...rockets and guns and all kinds of cool stuff...steam engines that worked even decoder rings...those were some wonderful days.

A bunch of us guys were sitting around the cigar shop the other day yukking about Spanish Fly and Liquid Pheromone ads. Some of my favorite memories from childhood were looking at girly magazines at the barber shop. Hef was the guy I wanted to be when I bought my first pipe at 14.

I love old magazines. We liked to gift birth month magazines like Life and others to our parents, aunts and uncles.

I'm a hoarder and every time I go down to clean up the davecave I end up sitting around in my old rocking recliner for hours looking through my "collections" of pipe and cigar magazines.

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