Mechanical ride thumber speeds hitch-hikers across country
Ah, back in the good ole days, when all you needed to get across the country was a map and a mechanical thumb. From Popular Science 1938 – Link.
Modern Mechanix
Propeller driven bicycle
Propeller driven bicycle, Popular Science 1936 and surely coming soon to a Critical Mass ride – Link. Related: Bicycle projects @ MAKE – Link. Bicycle archives @ MAKE – Link. From the pages of MAKE: The Rocketman’s Garage, rocket powered bicycles! Meet Minnesota’s celebrated thrill-machine maker. MAKE 05 – Page 154. Subscribers–read this article now […]
Trained roaches smuggle smokes, universe in a dish, watch-case phonographs…
Trained Cockroach smuggles smokes, nice hack – Link. Inventors on the air, it’s like “American Inventor” but on the radio from the 1930’s (and I bet a lot better) – Link. How the universe was formed (experiment!) – Link. Watch-case phonograph – Link. More future, back then @ Modern Mechanix – Link.
Plumber's tree
Modern Mechanix » Plumber’s Tree, Popular Mechanics 1950 – Link.
Surprising tests with household ammonia
Some fun experiments to extend your knowledge with your home laboratory, from Popular Science 1933 – Simple Experiments and Home-made Apparatus Extend Your Knowledge and Speed the Work You Can Accomplish in Your Own Laboratory It is surprising what the amateur chemist can do with a fifteen-cent bottle of ordinary household ammonia. Being a mixture […]
Bicycle made from a bed
From Popular Science 1938 – a fantastic bicycle made from a bed frame! Link.
One wheeled homemade tractor
One wheeled homemade tractor from Popular Science 1933 – With a power plant that is suspended securely inside of a big ring-shaped wheel, a garden tractor has been built largely from odds and ends by R. D. Read of Akron, Ohio. It operates like the unicycle automobile developed in England. (P.S.M. May, ’32, p. 63.) […]
