Today on Modern Mechanix we have 1947 article heralding the miracle of RF (radio frequency) heating, or to us, microwaves. These miraculous inventions include a microwave oven that’s “smaller than a refrigerator” as well as a handy dandy Speedy Weeny hot dog vending machine. In 1929 paper milk cartons were a brand new invention, though one they hadn’t quite gotten right since you had to cut off a metal cap to actually get at the milk. We also look at the 1939 debut of the recently retired Columbia cyclotron, a sci-fi looking Nazi robot leg, and a giant harmonica played by 7 children. Lastly, creative, anthropomorphic taxidermy was the latest fad in 1933.
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The Speeny Weeny machine looks vaguely like an iPod Classic
That’s from back in the 50′s when iPods were powered by thousands of vacuum tubes and the songs were stored in stacks of punch cards. That’s just the controller, of course, and the 3 inch think multi-conductor controller cable snakes back into the warehouse-sized computer room…
The taxidermy article was genuinely creepy.