Wooo. Popular Science is all I had to read when I was a kid. It's precisely the reason I got into science and engineering.<p>Now I have something to read for the next year :)
May 1920, p. 27: "Dare We Use This Power? Sir Oliver Lodge says atomic energy will supplant coal"<p>..."I hope that the human race will not discover how to use this energy," he says, "until it has brains and morality enough to use it properly, because if the discovery is made by the wrong people this planet would be unsafe."
I think I still own the paper copy of this one:<p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rAAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=rAAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1...</a><p>Perhaps now I'll finally be able to bring myself to throw it out.
I'm a color junkie so I started poking around in the 1920s and it's really cool to see there have always been ads to become this or do that to make more money.<p>Rollerblades are in this issue too.