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Modern Mechanix

Scanning pages from musty old magazines doesn't exactly sound like a winning concept for a web site. However, this blog creates a compelling experience from ancient articles in the realms of science and technology. You'll be transported back in time to a world where a speaker phone loomed ominously over an entire room, huge gorillas were preserved through "sculpturdermy," and tobacco had no nicotine. You'll marvel at the oddities dreamed up by mid-century inventors and find that everything old is new again. Either way, you'll enjoy this trip down memory lane. Just don't expect the monorail to pick you up anytime soon.

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