Dear Old Dad built rocket guidance systems at GE in the 50s and wanted me to be an engineer like him (he succeeded). He gave me a subscription to Popular Science around 1960 when I was nine years old. I absolutely LOVED the magazine and kept my subscription going for probably ten years. All the old issues were at Mom & Dad’s place and they must have sold them at a garage sale when they were downsizing around 1990.
I remember spending break time at the University going through the library stacks and looking at old magazines. I was thrilled to find Popular Science mags going back to around 1900. It was so cool to read about what was high-tech 70 years before my university time.
Do you remember the story about the guy who outfitted his Thunderbird with a full set of instruments, so the dashboard looked like the engineer’s console on a B-29?
I remember he had brake temperature gauges, one for each wheel.