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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. And today we're excited to announce you can browse the full archive right here on PopSci.com.

As you will soon see, it's an amazing resource. Aside from bringing back memories for longtime readers, as a whole the archive beautifully encapsulates over a century of PopSci's fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. Tracing our dreams and visions of the future back through time, you'll see that not a lot has changed. Some things we projected with startling accuracy, and others remain today what they were then--dreams. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

In the future, we'll be adding more advanced features for searching and browsing, so stay tuned.

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Cool. I have been checking these out on google for awhile now but good to know that all issues are now available.

Great job.

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This is a cool deal, but I generally have issues. If I do any amount of flipping through various issues, it errs out.

Google tells me that it is worried about automated surfing. Then it gives me one of those hidden letter tests -- only it just keeps repeating that step.

Hope that gets fixed. It's a great site.

this is great! thanks for posting these! i lost *hours* yesterday browsing the older issues. there was one 1930 issue with a great article on airships that was particularly fascinating.

it really could do with a better search though. even an index of issues by chronology labeled by date and cover story would be most helpfull. the google search is a real pain.

The magazines are so cool there so retro futuristic reminds me of Fallout 3.

@Abremms @ford2go A browse-by-issue-cover interface is currently in the works. We wanted to get this feature out to readers as soon as possible in any form, so it's limited to search at the moment. But we're going to be improving it, bear with us!

As for the automated surfing suspicion error from Google, we've passed that on to them. Thanks for reporting.

Very cool, thank you for providing this for free!

I look forward to the browse-by-issue interface.

This is AMAZING! All this for free? As a WW2 enthusiast it's great to read through the magazines of 1935 to 1950 and see how the stories change to military tech!

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A great idea! Dam it must have been a lot of hard work to do 137 years!

Wow! I am worried about how much time I am going to spend here. This site is GREAT! I have already spent a LOT of time. I actually remember reading a LOT of these articles when they first came out.

Thanks John.
Have always saved my old issues.
Past trouble was to find what I remembered.
Had tried email to ask, got no reply.
This is a fix.

This is probably the one of the most important contributions to science and education I can conceive of. Being able to access material from a few months to year gives me a way of looking back on something I may remember and be able to find it in Pop Sci. Space, cars, military, ships, projects, etc could fill a bunch of storage arrays and need its own search engine.
Management of Pop Sci should be commended for their contribution of their property to the public domain. But Pop Sci has always been forward thinking and imaginative. We should all thank them for this gift.
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I love this! The articles about how to build things like tube radios and chemistry experiments and schematics on how things work. This is the example of how a magazine should be.

I love this! The articles about how to build things like tube radios and chemistry experiments and schematics on how things work. This is the example of how a magazine should be.

This is absolutely fantastic. Please do yourself a really big favor and charge for it. You have to start charging for content. Capitalism is not a bad word. The only way to survive in the world of the internet is to CHARGE FOR CONTENT. I browse your magazine daily and I do it for free
it's not right and you are really dumb for letting me do it. More importantly, I WOULD buy a subscription if you gave me no alternative, but that's what it's going to take.

This really is fantastic I've been fascinated by your magazine for sixty years and I want to review old memories.

I'm confused. I thought the archives were already online and you could browse through them. I did that last year sometime. What is the difference now and why are you unable to browse through the issues as you could previously?

I don't get it. For some reason, I can't browse/search for anything at popsci.com. I do a search and tons of titles display, but once I click on them I receive nothing but a message that states:

"Use the magnifying glass controls to zoom in and out on the page, and the search field inside the viewer to search for text in the currently visible issue."

But, I don't have anything to zoom in on. I am using Firefox and I tried in IE and still nothing. Now, I am able to go to Google Books and browse.

Any ideas?

Ditto cmairn

I've used Google Chrome (which I figured would work since this is a Google part) and IE. Both give me the same message you get. I don't get to see anything beyond search results.

I'm with cmairn and kbajan.
Nice tease, with some articles I'd like to read, but blank screens when I try to do it!
What gives???

I sent a complaint to PopSci's webmaster last month about not being able to locate any past issues. I never heard back and was about to follow up on my unanswered complaint when I saw this NEW FEATURE. It's about time! COOL!!!

Everyone who ran into the error of seeing a blank page when clicking on a search result this morning--that issue has now been fixed. Sorry for the brief outage. Thanks everyone for the kind words, glad you're enjoying the archive.

@John Mahoney

Thank you kind sir! I did try to find somewhere to report this. I'm glad you were monitoring it.

I definitely plan to look around.

You've made my Dad a happy man. He's busy reading "Gus Wilson's Model Garage" columns.

Now - since the search engine isn't firing on all cylinders yet - can someone point me directly to which issue has the plans for "Leon and Ickle who run on a trickle"???? These were WW2 go-kart type things that were legal for the street during gas rationing.

Many thanks.

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The archives have taken me back to my childhood. I had forgotten about the Model Garage and Gus. 45 years later I find that I based my career as a machine repair mechanic on the teachings of Gus. Look for the obvious, it's probably the problem. Thanks.

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