Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free

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Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free

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 peroxide–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.

Search the PopSci archives:
http://www.popsci.com/archives



We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

In the future, we'll be adding more advanced features for searching and browsing, but for now, enter any keyword into the box below and dive in.



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[Occulus]

1. Holy Jumping Jesus H. Christ on a TRAILER HITCH

:wow:

AWESOME!!

[eShirl]

2. hot dang

k&r

[pleah]

3. K&R Cool! n/t

[Geek_Girl]

4. awesome!

nt

[Yuugal]

5. K&R

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. goodbye DU...

:-)

[DiverDave]

7. Too COOL!

Just spent some time digging around, I can see that this will take up alot of my time.
Thanks for the link!

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Uh oh

I foresee a great deal of time suckage in my future - as if I didn't have enough of that already.

[Gman]

9. I found an old ad for Prince Albert in a can

somebody better go let him out!

[ThomWV]

10. Oh Fuck Yes! Time to build that homemade rocket-pack to fly to the store with.

Anybody know which issue the plans are in?

[OnyxCollie]

11. Cool!

I'll have to let my dad know about this.

[NecklyTyler]

12. High Tech written so a 10 year old could understand it

I wish there was a source like Popular Science to educate the deniers about global warming

[NecklyTyler]

13. K&R

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. I used to LOVE reading my grandpa's Popular Science mags back in the 60's.

Damn, I had such a long to-do list today, too...