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]