|
Title: RDF 1930s style Post by: WQ9E on April 04, 2011, 08:13:48 PM These old Popular Science magazines put up by Google books could easily become highly addictive. The story about federal agents running down bootleggers via RDF starts on P. 13: http://books.google.com/books?id=NygDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=&rview=1#v=onepage&q&f=true
Warning, there are a lot of good radio stories in the 30s era Popular Science so you too may become an addict. Title: Re: RDF 1930s style Post by: N0WEK on April 05, 2011, 04:01:42 AM Scary tip on tempering red hot drill bits in mercury was my favorite in that issue!
Title: Re: RDF 1930s style Post by: WQ9E on April 05, 2011, 08:51:42 AM And did you notice Professor Theremin also made an appearance with his soon to be famous electronic instrument? AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
There was some pretty scary stuff back then. One of the previous issues showed a researcher in Missouri who was going through corn fields with his portable X-ray machine to see what impact it had on corn. I have a feeling he didn't live long enough to benefit from the social security program started later during the depression. |