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Please Don’t Help My Kids

Dear Other Parents At The Park: Please do not lift my daughters to the top of the ladder, especially after you’ve just heard me tell them I wasn’t going to do it for them and encourage them to try it themselves. The article continues: They’re not …

Science and Mechanics, February 1946 – Another Future That Wasn’t

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Attractive, Unique Vintage Telephones

Fabulous Phones – Blasts from the Past! (Go ahead, call your mother) Chuck Palahniuk once said: “People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone”. Nowadays the same sentiment cou…

Travel Times in the 1800s

From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these maps paint the picture of transportation in the 1800s. Each line represents how far one could travel in some amount of time, starting from New York. For example, it took a…

Early Aerodynamic Design: “Tatra” Car & Other Aerodynamic Marvels

With top speed approaching 100 mph, efficient aerodynamic characteristics, weird triple headlights and an air-cooled engine in the back, this car sported radical looks and even more radical engineering. The only American car approaching it in term…

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