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RADIO Movies in Color (Nov, 1929)
This one was another surprise, apparently Bell Laboratories had a working color television in 1929. It’s pretty damn impressive that someone managed to make an electro-mechanical color television. It sort of reminds me of a reverse version of a DLP chip.

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Pay Per View TV (Oct, 1947)
This is the earliest example I’ve seen of Pay Per View TV. The picture would come in blurred from the station and the receiver would get the decoding frequencies over your phone line and the charge would appear on your phone bill.

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Color VCR and Flat Screen Television (Sep, 1954)
This article from Colliers magazine has a bunch of stuff that was really ahead of it’s time, but the two best are this picture on the left of the playback from a color VCR and this amazingly modern looking flat screen television on the right. Seriously, doesn’t that look like a 23″ LCD?

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Flat Screen TV in 1958 (Jan, 1958)
While the flat-screen above looks pretty amazing, the article was a little short on the details of how it worked or if it actually worked at all. The one below is the real deal, check out the article and the linked 1996 interview with the inventor, William Ross Aiken.

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Recorder stores TV stills (Jan, 1964)
Well, it’s not exactly pausing live television with a Tivo, but this nifty device from 1964 could record up to 10 still frame grabs on a big metal foil disc spinning at 3,000 RPM.

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Sun Furnace May Vaporize Diamonds (Aug, 1931)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1931

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Modern SCIENCE Predicts Made-to-Order Weather (Jul, 1934)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1934

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SKYSCRAPERS DOOMED by UNDERGROUND CITIES? (Jul, 1934)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1934

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NEW ELEVATOR WORKS WITHOUT CABLES (Sep, 1934)
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1934

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New Russian Monorail RUNS IN TROUGH ON BIG SPHERES (Feb, 1934)
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1934

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Biggest Post Office TO BE BUILT IN CHICAGO (Aug, 1931)
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1931

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NOVEL NEW MACHINES for PULLING POWER from the SKIES (Apr, 1933)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1933

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Gyroscope Monorail Car to Travel 300 Miles per Hour (Feb, 1934)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1934

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This is the Supersonic Barrier (Feb, 1947)
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1947

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“SEA SLUG” Liner Floats on WORM DRIVE (Oct, 1935)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1935

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Has Russia the Atom Bomb? (Mar, 1948)
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1948

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Should we then, attack Russia now before she has the bomb - wage a “preventive” war against her - to protect ourselves against possible future atomic attack?

The answer is emphatically “No!”

The reasons are many.

First, such a course would be morally wrong. We would be putting ourselves in the same class as the Nazis we hanged in Germany. We cannot attack another nation merely because we are afraid.

Danas više nemaju takvih moralnih skrupula.
 
How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race (Dec, 1953)
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1953

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