Electric airships , hoagie , and other futuristic vessels were the master attractions on the covers of a pulp novel series called Frank Reade Weekly Magazine : Containing Stories of Adventures on Land , Sea & in the Air .
TheSmithsonian Libraries ’s tumblrhas just post some of the skillful example of these paleofuturist transportation devices . They excuse :
The Frank Reade Weekly Magazine was a serial publication of punk and colorful dime novel bring out at the turn of the 20th C take at a vernal , predominantly male hearing . They spun story of adventure in exotic setting – often in opposite regions — with the artificer zep traveling in futurist airships and submarines .
you’re able to readtwelve issuesof the magazine online , from the digital collections of the Smithsonian Libraries . Here are all the cover containing awesome artwork , showing bold sight of future transportation .
“Searcher”, a Snow locomotive
“Ranger”, an electric ice ship
“Explorer”, a submarine boat
“Kite”, a flying sailboat
Four-wheeled airship
The Engine of the Clouds
“Dolphin”, an electric submarine
Treasure hunter deep sea divers, and a submarine boat in the background
“Dart”, an airship with butterfly sails
An airship called “Spectre”
“Dart”, a submarine boat
“Sea Diver”, an electric submarine boat
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