Make your own “war games” battleship-like game from Modern Mechanix 1932 You fight real, deadly battles on a small scale in these fascinating war games, which have all the strategic elements of nation-against-nation campaign. Exploding battleships, forts and tanks and an accurate long – range mortar compose your fighting forces, built as described in this […]
Back in the day post offices (in NYC) were connected with pneumatic tubes, Popular Science 1951 – Link.
Couple goodies from the past… Magnesium the BANTAMWEIGHT METAL. How Chemists Have Put It to Work as a Jack-of-All-Trades, Popular Science 1946 – Link. How to Handle a Rope, Popular Science 1942 – Link. More @ Modern Mechanix – Link.
Late at night you get a little lazy and maybe you’re soldering, clipping off wires and don’t feel like wearing safety glasses, but after a close call I always wear eye protection, this photo is a good reminder. Modern Mechanix 1932 – Link.
Look in to the future, from the past… a few maker-like projects from Modern Mechanix…. Neighborhood Streamliner (Jun, 1950) – Link. Batteries of Robots Scoop Power From Sea With Shovels (May, 1934) – Link. Torture Tests Tell The Truth (Sep, 1938) – Link. NEW ZEALAND BOYS COAST ON MUD (Mar, 1933) – Link. Motor Unit […]
Modern Mechanix does it again by digging up this exceedingly cool article about the one-wheeled tanks of the future! – Link Look familiar? That’s cause we included a bio of someone doing almost the exact same thing on their own in the Makers book!
Something every coffee drinker knows, the stuff can power trains… seriously – “Coffee beans are now being pressed into compact briquettes and used for fuel in locomotives and factories in Brazil. Due to conditions in Brazil, which produces most of the world’s coffee, there has been an enormous oversupply of the beans this year. Hundreds […]
