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From our archive: a reporter's LSD trip, a guide to getting high during Prohibition, and more
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From the Popular Science archives, the hurricane house, the seismograph camera, the forest-fire-fighting dirigible, and more.
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The car has greatly evolved over the past century, and Popular Science has been along for the transformational ride.
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