{"id":5573,"date":"2014-11-26T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2014-11-17T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:40:38","slug":"the-electrical-experimenter-on-the-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/the-electrical-experimenter-on-the-internet-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electrical Experimenter on the Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"electricalexperimenterv7\"Are you hankering for some easily digestible, perhaps incorrect and outdated, home science and hopelessly optimistic paleo futurism?\u00a0 Then the Internet Archive’s collection of the Electrical Experimenter<\/a> is for you.\u00a0 Read articles from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Hugo Gernsback, and Frederick Finch Strong.<\/p>\n

What, you say you’ve never heard of paleo futurism before?\u00a0 You’ve never toured through the worlds we were supposed to have if the idealistic scientists of yesterday had their way?\u00a0 Then I also recommend Paleo Future, <\/a>where you will find countless examples of how clean, peaceful and advanced we should be living today if all predictions had come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you hankering for some easily digestible, perhaps incorrect and outdated, home science and hopelessly optimistic paleo futurism?\u00a0 Then the Internet Archive’s collection of the Electrical Experimenter is for you.\u00a0 Read articles from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Hugo Gernsback, and Frederick Finch Strong. What, you say you’ve never heard of paleo futurism before?\u00a0 You’ve… Continue reading The Electrical Experimenter on the Internet Archive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[208,123],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-archive","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1498,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/in-library-ebook-lending-program-expands-to-1000-libraries-internet-archive-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":5573,"position":0},"title":"In-Library eBook Lending Program Expands to 1,000 Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs","author":"leems","date":"July 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The internet archive finally did it - or did it while I wasn't looking.\u00a0 If you are not aware of the internet archive then I suggest checking it out.\u00a0 There are tons of public domain books, recordings, and videos there as well as the way-back machine.\u00a0 Ever wonder what a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4903,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/the-console-living-room-at-the-internet-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":5573,"position":1},"title":"The Console Living Room at the Internet Archive","author":"leems","date":"January 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I have the Atari system I fondly remember set up in the kitchen of my Dad's house.\u00a0 It is all packed up in a box in my closet.\u00a0 I have not yet found the adapter that will make it work with my new flat-screen TV. 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