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Joel Johnson

AT 11:32 AM
Wednesday December 12, 2007

RetroRobots

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Mechanical Monster Building in Post-War America (1947)

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Modern Mechanix has a doozy of a scan today: a five-page spread from the May, 1947 issue of Mechanix Illustrated about George Harold Messmore, an engineer who built mechanical dinosaurs for display in expositions and the like.

Man of the Monsters (May, 1947) [Modern Mechanix]

Previously: Video: The Inassailable Awesomeness of Overdrift [BBG]

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