JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 948
The following illustrations are all taken gloriously out of context from ads appearing in the Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, published in 1957-1958.
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A quick glance and this caught my eye: "Filling the gap in freedom's fence."
To be completely free we must be completely fenced in?
Posted by: Jeff Donlan | February 24, 2010 at 01:58 PM
Sometimes a fence is just a fence. But not in this case, evidently, what with allowing tactical bombers in through the gaps. Maybe we were fencing people "out"?
Posted by: John F. Ptak | March 08, 2010 at 08:01 PM