1930s
Follies of the Madmen #616
Is this why mermaids come to the surface? Hard to smoke underwater?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 19, 2025 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, 1930s
Railroad Worker Sign Language
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 23, 2025 -
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Category: Languages, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1930s
Amazon Puppy Delivery
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 13, 2025 -
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Category: War, Air Travel and Airlines, Dogs, 1930s
Anti-Thumb-Sucking Glove
This doesn't look safe.Patent No. 2,035,210 granted to Elizar Zinner of Germany.
Popular Science - May 1938
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 21, 2024 -
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Category: Babies, Patents, Clothing, 1930s
Equine Hitchhiker
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 20, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, Animals, Death, 1930s, Cars
Early TiVo for Radios
Completely portable!The source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 01, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Radio, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #609
Too much nicotine causes the user to hallucinate that the cigarette is talking to them.Source of ad.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 28, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
The Birth of the Robot
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 26, 2024 -
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Category: Robots, Stop-motion Animation, 1930s, Cars
An Optical Poem
Creator's Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 21, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Movies, Stop-motion Animation, Music, 1930s
The Sonata of Sleep
The Sonata of Sleep wasn't a musical composition. Instead it was a building designed (but never built) in the 1930s by Soviet architect Konstantin Melnikov. He envisioned it as a place where Soviet workers could enjoy scientifically-enhanced sleep. Details from Cabinet magazine:At either end of the long buildings were to be situated control booths, where technicians would command instruments to regulate the temperature, humidity, and air pressure, as well as to waft salubrious scents and “rarefied condensed air” through the halls. Nor would sound be left unorganized. Specialists working “according to scientific facts” would transmit from the control centre a range of sounds gauged to intensify the process of slumber. The rustle of leaves, the cooing of nightingales, or the soft murmur of waves would instantly relax the most overwrought veteran of the metropolis. Should these fail, the mechanized beds would then begin gently to rock until consciousness was lost.
Model of Melnikov's Sonata of Sleep
image source: interwoven
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 20, 2024 -
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Category: Architecture, Sleep and Dreams, 1930s, Russia
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