Jacksonville in Popular Science

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I read the following article on Wired.com today:

Gadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements.

Head over to the site and you’ll see a simple search box. Of course, the first thing I typed in was “jet pack”. This, naturally enough, returned plenty of results, including a rather dangerous-looking hydrogen peroxideâ€"powered contraption with a belt-mounted controller. The article was printed in the December 1962 issue.

You can’t go directly to an issue to browse, but once you have arrived somewhere by search, there are no restrictions on scrolling around. You’ll also find a properly hyperlinked table of contents in each magazine. The early years are a little dry: I browsed an issue from 1902, and it made the average math textbook look like a Dan Brown novel (only better paced), so I’d recommend starting in the optimistic, tech-loving 1950s.

Oh, and did I mention it works great on an iPhone? Good luck getting any work done today.

http://www.popsci.com/archives


While I find this to be fascinating on many levels, I wanted to see what they had on Jax and there are several articles that are pretty interesting.

Here is an article reviewing Florida as a suitable climate for Consumptives (TB) from June 1883. The article states that Jacksonville is not the “best locality for invalids.“




Here is an article from July 1934 on Home Workshop Clubs. Apparently, Jacksonville had a great demonstration on faceplate turning and metal spinning ?!?!?






There are several more references and I will post anything that I find that seems interesting.

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That's some pretty neat stuff!

Some of the commentary about the city is still true today (ha)...