Popular Science

[JCsman]

They have made well over 100 years of the magazine available on-line with search capability.

Here's an example:

http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=8iUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=98&query=motorcycles+rolls+royce

I thought the R-69 might be of interest......

Or the Salt Flats from times gone by:

http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=nCEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=111&query=salt+flats+motorcycle

You can scroll up or down to see the pages of those issues. Vintage ads and all.

[1MPH]

Bill you beat me to it. Nice find.

The Popular Science Site says it best:

We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives.

Every issue from their 137 years is there to browse. They're still working on more search functions. You can't go directly to individual issues yet, but I entered the year I was interested in and started browsing. Very easy to get caught up in the tech of the day, and awed by how far we've come in so little time.

Fun way to pass some time.

[1MPH]

Popular Science Site

[Deans BMW]

Wow, that is fantastic. I love Popular Science.

[DarthRider]

I subscribed to PS and Popular Mechanics when I was a kid and had years of old issues stashed under my parents house when I went out on my own. Along with tons of Hot Rod & motorcycle magazines, a great rock collection, WWII souvenirs and other stuff. Good stuff!
Years later when I had room, I went back to retrieve all that. It was gone.
My dear mother gave my rock collection to my most un-favorite cousin and sold the rest in a garage sale...argghhh!

Now at least I can re-read my lost treasures...thanks Bill.:eusa_clap:

[Griffon]

It's funny that so many things are archived online. We are getting to the point where anyone with a browser is all but omniscient, or at least has no excuse for complete ignorance.

Thanks for the link Bill!

[BobFV1]

It's funny that so many things are archived online. We are getting to the point where anyone with a browser is all but omniscient, or at least has no excuse for complete ignorance.

Thanks for the link Bill!This is causing some very interesting legal arguments with reference to copyright, open domain, and reasonable charges. Some collections will be part free and start to incur charges after a certain point, the revenue going in to a general fund and not directly to the copyright holders. Big legal issue for the English-language print industry outside the United States.

Popular Mechanics was always a fun read, and always just that "popular" mechanics, not anything rigorously peer reviewed. I liked it, and it was always lying around the barber shop with "True", "Argosy", and "Saga" - plenty of hours of my youth spent reading about bigfoot sightings and hovercraft!

[panthercity]

Anyone else having trouble with those URLs?

[NoRRmad]

Yeah, one is malformed and the other takes you directly to the article. Try this:

http://www.popsci.com/