I guess sharing nostalgia depends on how old you are. Don't know if the subject will have any interest, so will let it die if there is none.
Anyway... hardly a day goes by, but that something tweaks the memory of "things" from the past. Yesterday I watched an old movie, with WWII soldiers in foxholes, and was reminded of the 1940's when I built a "razor blade foxhole radio" that used the bedspring as an antenna, and the steam radiator as a ground.
So, one thing led to another, and I remembered "The Boy Mechanic", an old book my grandmother gave me when I was 7 or 8 years old. It had hundreds of pages of things that a kid could make or do... having to do with mechanics, electronics (sic.) and making things like soap box racers.
When I looked it up online, I found it is in the public domain, and free to download. For guys, especially, this might be a fun thing to look at. It represented technology for kids, 100 years ago.
The boy mechanic : book 2: 1000 things for boys to do : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
So, do you have anything from anytime in your "distant" past that was/is particularly interesting to you?
Anyway... hardly a day goes by, but that something tweaks the memory of "things" from the past. Yesterday I watched an old movie, with WWII soldiers in foxholes, and was reminded of the 1940's when I built a "razor blade foxhole radio" that used the bedspring as an antenna, and the steam radiator as a ground.
So, one thing led to another, and I remembered "The Boy Mechanic", an old book my grandmother gave me when I was 7 or 8 years old. It had hundreds of pages of things that a kid could make or do... having to do with mechanics, electronics (sic.) and making things like soap box racers.
When I looked it up online, I found it is in the public domain, and free to download. For guys, especially, this might be a fun thing to look at. It represented technology for kids, 100 years ago.
The boy mechanic : book 2: 1000 things for boys to do : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
So, do you have anything from anytime in your "distant" past that was/is particularly interesting to you?
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