I picked up a December 1928 copy of Popular Mechanics the other day. This publication came out one year before the Great Depression, when electricity, cars, and airplanes were new. The magazine has an *astounding* number of ads for get-rick-quick correspondence schools, and a pretty big article, with illustrations, of the Great Things to Come from the Graf Zeppelin, which would be flying between Friedrichshafen, Germany and Lakehurst, New Jersey.
I wonder how that worked out?
Of particular interest is the last picture which shows the first radio transmission of a picture — a Zeppelin on its maiden test inflation. I think this was, essentially, the first fax.
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