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To: Roccus
Imagine if YouTube How-to videos had been available to kids in the 50s. Just think of the terror we could have unleashed on our neighborhoods building our machines from just junk!

From 1951 to 1957 or so we had "Watch Mr. Wizard" on analogue black and white TV.

Don Herbert was great! Quite a few episodes on youtube.

70 posted on 04/20/2019 12:03:45 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Good show. I watched it after we got a TV in ‘55. But it didn’t show me how to build my soap box glider. Or how to add a brake or put in an operating steering wheel instead of two ropes. Or how to build a four shot carpet gun. You know....important stuff! lol


74 posted on 04/20/2019 12:34:12 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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