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Archive Gallery: Thrilling Trains of the Future
If only our Thanksgiving travel plans included rides on cross-country high-speed rails, propeller-powered monorails, and the mythical Long Island bullet train
Archive Gallery: The World Wars’ Most Formidable Warships
Giant guns, dirigible carriers, and old-fashioned battleships galore
Archive Gallery: Kitchens of Tomorrow, 1950’s Edition
One motion-activated kitchen, please, along with with a side of turkey roasted by a computerized oven
Archive Gallery: A Century of Progress in Renewable Energy
PopSci reminisces about the tornado turbine, the marine kelp farm, polar windmills, and other renewable energy generators that promised to overthrow conventional fuel sources
Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Favorite Flying Cars
Winged tanks, a torpedo-shaped aerobile, and flying cars designed by the 20th century's most renowned aviation minds
Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Fantastic Space Colonies
An igloo-shaped lunar base, a train on the moon, a satellite housing 20,000 residents, and other places to live and play in space
Archive Gallery: Science Fights World Hunger
To commemorate World Food Day, we look back on science's role in alleviating the hunger crisis. Whale breeding, desert sugar factories, and oyster soup capsules, yum
Archive Gallery: Wildly Experimental Medical Procedures
PopSci learns, over the decades, that cocaine anesthesia, radioactive drinking water, and cryogenic cancer treatments are actually not good for your health
Archive Gallery: The Science of Prohibition, 1919-1933
At the dawn of Prohibition, the future of happy hour looked bleak, but PopSci's archives reveal that within every speakeasy resides a science lab, and within every bootlegger, an unlikely inventor or chemist
Archive Gallery: The Twentieth Century’s Best-Kept Military Secrets
Death-ray bombs, giant flamethrowers, unclassified airfields, and more of history's deepest military secrets