Today on Modern Mechanix we look at an ad for this 1902 Holley Motor Bicycle which proclaims it’s usefulness in navigating “hilly districts”, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1930 plans for an eighteen-story, all-glass building in New York’s East Village, a man who is very excited about his new telephone holder, French plans for a 2,300 ft. “pleasure tower” accessible by car via a giant spiral ramp and an airplane propelled by pulsating wing bladders. Also check out this 1937 Popular Science piece that tells everything a civilian needs to know about poison gas, primarily that they shouldn’t worry about it.
This weekend we looked at 1928 designs for a rocket trip to mars, a bizarre exercise machine, a dubious 1960 domestic/firefighting robot, a compact farm “computer“, gas-masked paratroopers on skis, an entertaining ad for Dentyne gum, German cops who shoot at movies to hone their rifle skills, artificial plastic eyes, how the U.S. trained army aviators before WWII and a 1936 piece about allergies titled “Food or Poison?” which, surprisingly, mentions soy milk as an alternative for people with dairy allergies.
