Modern Mechanix Round-UP

Today on Modern Mechanix we look at wonderfully illustrated exploration of what the scientists of 1951 thought aliens would look like, a tailless English plane, the biggest post office in the US, a locking bottle cap with a prestigious inventor, an eleven pound mushroom and an ad for IBM's new (in 1959) 1401 computer platform. Plus we learn how to loop the loop in a balloon.

This weekend we learned how industrial spies operate, how to make a Hollywood movie for $97, how to photograph the stars with a rocket, how to master your spin shot in ping pong and how to tell if someone is a Jew just by bending their knee. We also looked at an odd pair of single wheel roller skates, a serving tray for individual ice cubes, an early auto bumper and a pretty cool looking bicycle toboggan.