Today on Modern Mechanix (the blog) we look at this article from the very first issue of Modern Mechanix (the magazine) in 1929 about the inventor of the photo booth and the $1,000,000 payout he got just six months after it’s premiere. This 1902 Scientific American description of the Hollerith punch card tabulating machines used in the 1900 census is a little bit wordy. However it’s well worth taking a look at just to see some of the machines that launched the computer age in America. We also looked at a wireless receiving station for Zeppelin broadcasts that seems to be almost entirely composed of batteries, a nifty looking watercycle a rather modern looking 1935 tennis racket, and a mechanical baggage smasher.
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The person who invented the baggage smasher must’ve made so much money, since they seemed to have employed the idea at US Postal Service and every airport for very thorough testing of every box and every bag.
Just a question, not meaning to interfere:
Why are there so many MM updates on this blog? The people who like MM have probably all put the feed in their readers, so are the daily updates really necessary?