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

Off the Rails · 11-27-12, 02:01 PM

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.

11-27-12, 02:39 PM

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

Sailor Steve · 11-27-12, 03:17 PM

Pretty cool!

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."

Off the Rails · 11-27-12, 04:41 PM

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.

Fish In The Water · 11-28-12, 02:23 PM

Cool link. Thanks for sharing!

11-27-12, 02:01 PM	#1
Off the Rails Seaman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 35 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	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.

11-27-12, 03:17 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Pretty cool! 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." __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-28-12, 02:23 PM	#5
Fish In The Water Prince of the Sea SUBSIM Welcome Committee Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Watching over U-253 Posts: 3,527 Downloads: 98 Uploads: 2	Cool link. Thanks for sharing! __________________ "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell.

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11-27-12, 02:39 PM	#2
Webster Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	that glider train looks amazing lol, there are just so many amazing things we see from the past

11-27-12, 04:41 PM	#4
Off the Rails Seaman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 35 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	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.