Tag: magazine

Be a Practical Motorist

First published in 1934 by George Newnes, British car magazine Practical Motorist became an essential guide for generations of car owners who preferred the “do-it-yourself” approach to vehicle maintenance.
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More than just a technical manual, Practical Motorist captured the spirit of post-war motoring culture, fostering a community of enthusiasts who took pride in the grease under their fingernails and the reliability of their well-maintained vehicles.

[Click for larger pics. More practical covers here via Memo of the Air.]

Space Bimbo Traffic Cop

[March 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine. FUSF was published from 1953 through 1960. More space bimbos here.]

The Girls of Pre-Revolution Iran

[1970s fashion magazines predating Iran’s Islamic Revolution found here. There’s a huge collection of magazines and models (with their names) from the same era here.]

Para Fumetas

Un amplificador se convierte en un armadillo y se estrella contra el
piso. Tiene sentido.

[From Revisto Pelo, ca. 1970, found here, comic artist unknown.]

MODERN MACHINES AND INVENTIONS MAGAZINE

These retro-future fictitious covers are the work of Chet Phillips.

Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918

Related posts here. Complete archived issues of Electrical Experimenter may be viewed and downloaded here.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

 

1919 Amusement Park Ride Allows You to Die in a Sitting Position

From Electrical Experimenter magazine, December 1919:

“In the circus we are used to seeing a person “loop-the-loop” or turn a somersault in mid-air while in an automobile, the vehicle and its passengers landing right side up on a properly inclined platform, down which it glides to earth. Our artillery experts can compute with extreme accuracy the trajectory of various projectiles, both large and small, and thus it should be quite possible, with the aid of modern mechanical engineering technique, to build one of these aerial passenger rocket amusements successfully. The gun out of which is the shell or rocket, with its human cargo is shot, may be operated by compressed air, by powder, or it may be an electromagnetic gun.”

[Found here. Click the link above for .pdf of the issue.]

1988 vs. 2021

[Images from a FB post.]

Schokkend

Apparently she “appears every fortnight.” Consider yourselves warned.

[Found here.]