Popular Science - One and a Third Centuries of It - Free

"Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free"
Gadget Lab, Wired (March 4, 2010)

"Gadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements...."

I must be a "gadget nerd." I grew up with Popular Science. Not as a subscriber - but I'd buy an issue now and again from a newsstand. Apparently the collection is searchable - but with limitations. There's a bit more detail in the (short) article.

I won't be going there tonight - or, probably, tomorrow. There's too much in my schedule, and if I started browsing, I'd probably stay too long.

There's a bit of advice from the article that I'll pass along: start in the issues from the fifties.

Enjoy.