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Gleaming
rockets and autogyros abound in a shiny, efficient world that's
just around the corner; automobile and airplane manufacturers
muse about solar power and the Back in the 1920's and 1930's, America was still largely rural. The flight to the cities was in full force by the Depression years, but even when they were on the move, these new urbanites were still farmers and the families of farmers. They were used to making their own goods and repairing their own equipment - and the core technologies of that period - the internal combustion engine and the radio, for example - were both relatively simple and general. If you could build a boat, you could probably build an car or an airplane. Or anyway, you thought you could. This was the magazine for you. Modern
Mechanix & Inventions was one of many long-gone magazines for
the home tinkerer. It's full of designs for little devices, bigger
devices, and even the cars, boats and airplanes mentioned above.
It seems as though anyone who could maintain a Model T Ford was
able to take a couple of old condensers and a coil and, at the
end of the weekend, have an electric-eye-guided vacuum cleaner
with, probably, a snowplow welded on the side.
We're betting that they'll still do something like that for you today. Use the links in the left menu, below "Modern Mechanix & Inventions", to see the shirts, mugs, cards and posters. |
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WPA POSTER ART
| 1939 WORLD'S FAIR
| CRATE LABEL ART
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