Popular Science article from 1949; photos of fleet boats and GUPPY boats
 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WCQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA98&dq=popular+science+1 949+%22U.S.S.+Tusk&hl=en&ei=U-zgTNfqO4vonQeX9Y2xDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result &redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true

Came across the link on Wikipedia; it wasn't very well hidden so I apologise if this has already been posted.

that glider train looks amazing lol, there are just so many amazing things we see from the past

Pretty cool! :sunny:

The one that made me smile was the "Phone of the future". That was the exact phone I grew up with, and of course now is long since the "Phone of the past."

Love it. Page 160 has an article about an airdrop torpedo testing tank, too.

Contents are on page 2; first article is on 97. That's 95 pages of utterly breathless adverts for things like baby shoe metallizers, horse training courses, "HAMSTERS! The new wonder animals from Syria!", leather carving courses, hypnotism courses, flight schools (boy... what a lot of flight schools), diuretics...

Then there's Victor T. Hoeflich's radio hat on page 119, the model train delivering radon canisters sound a hospital on page 111 and the unputdownable Know Your Hinges on page 187.

Next Month: Will Atomic Engines Be Mobile????? Er... no, not really.

Cool link. Thanks for sharing! :up: