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.