The pre-Google pre-Car ~Google ~Car (1892)

JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post 

In the four hundreds years since Columbus' first voyage we find in the pages of Scientific American Supplement (July 23, 1892) a new mode of transport/exploration/recorder--the bike camera. Or, well, a bike with a camera-holding capacity.  Or a bike with a tripod on which a camera could be placed. I know this is a lot less glamorous than a pre-Google pre-car, but in a sense, it is.  

 

Which reminds me of an earlier post:

   

[Popular Mechanics for April, 1916.]

 

And this:

[Image source: Popular Mechanics, volume 44, October 1925]