Modern Mechanix Round-UP

Today on Modern Mechanix we have this bizarre contraption designed to torture teach your baby how to walk, a “compact” gauge to measure the speed of baseball pitches, a round up of cool gadgets used in store windows to attract shoppers, a 1965 ad for Bell’s Data-Phone which appears to be an early modem and a big truck that can transform into a complete airport. We also looked at Mechanix Illustrated’s vision of future peace keepers in “Space Cops to Enforce World Peace“. One commenter pointed out the similarity of this idea to the plot of H.G. Wells’ 1936 movie “Things to Come”. You can read a Modern Mechanix article about it here. Or watch the whole movie at archive.org.