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1930's Sci Fi or Fact? Alpha The Robot Killer Drones German Rocket Mail The Modern Boy Comic Album

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Channel: creamofcardstv · 2013 · Science & Technology

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See the latest technology from 1935 on these trade cards that came with The Modern Boy comic. It includes cards featuring Alpha the Robot, Flying Flea, a German scientist's proposal to use rockets to send mail to the United Kingdom, romote controlled aircraft and much more.

Series Title: Mechanical Wonders of 1935
Issuer: The Modern Boy (Amalgamated Press comic/periodical)
Includes: New 2,000 HP LMS Turbomotive; "Flying Flea", The Smallest Plane Yet (Mignet Pou-du-Ciel designed by Henri Mignet);  Half Mile Down (Bathysphere was designed by Otis Barton for the naturalist William Beebe); Wiley Post's Stratosphere Flight (Wiley Post the first pilot to fly solo around the world); Robot Lays Track In Sections; 200MPH On The Open Road, Stanley Woods Wins TT By Four Seconds, Living Maps In Signal Boxes, Skiing With A Parachute (Hubert Garrigue invented this sport), Ships See Ahead In Fog, Comet Wins Australia Race, Full-Sized Planes Tested In Tunnel, Robot That Obeys Human Voice(Alpha the Robot was designed by Professor Harry May); Normandie Rides Atlantic Storm; Latest Air-Liner Has No Wings; Building A Bridge Under Water; Parachutist Films His Own Drop; Ten Million Volt Man-Made Lightning; Paris Beacon Can Be Seen From Croydon; Electric Eye Times Races; Aeroplane That Splits in Two; Streamlined Record-Breaker; Air Mail Lands on City Roofs, "Queen Bee" Piloted by Radio; Trains That Take To the Air; Signals Talk To Engine Driver; The Queen Mary In The World's Largest Dock, London To Paris for 6/-, Rocket Carries The Mail ( Rocket Mail proposed by Gerhard Zucker), Models Used In Film Air Crash, Fighting Fires At Dizzy Heights, Lost Plane Found By Radio

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