137 Years of Future

By Alexander Rose @zander

Mar 9, 02010

Boing Boing notes that Popular Science has put up their whole 137 year historical archive on line in partnership with Google. While you cant search by issue, you can do keyword searches. I hope more long standing publications follow suit, this is a real treasure trove, especially the advertisements…

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Thanks to Chaz for sending this in.

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