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History of the Future: Super-sleek Tubular Ark, 1936

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There’s very little to go along with this image that I found in the April 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics, save that the massive ship will have no portholes, it will carry 7,000 and that the decks are enclosed (“sealed and air-conditioned”).  So, basically, the ships is a tube with a few above-deck exposures and not much else. 

It looks a little bit like an ark.

Future ocean liner080
With coming events of the next few years, this ark would have been very busy had it ever been constructed.

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