137 Years… That’s how far back PopSci’s magazine archive now goes. PopSci + Google Books = Hours of interesting reading

Popular Science (PopSci) - New! Browse the Complete PopSci Archive

“We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. And today we're excited to announce you can browse the full archive right here on PopSci.com.

As you will soon see, it's an amazing resource. Aside from bringing back memories for longtime readers, as a whole the archive beautifully encapsulates over a century of PopSci's fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. Tracing our dreams and visions of the future back through time, you'll see that not a lot has changed. Some things we projected with startling accuracy, and others remain today what they were then--dreams. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

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Google Books – Popular Science (PopSci)

I found the oldest set, from May, 1872 to be the more interesting;

I used to spend hours in the library looking through the old archives of magazines. Checking out the stories, style and ad’s. It was like having my own personal time machine.

Google and PopSci have now brought that time machine back into my life and onto my computer. How cool is that!

BTW, I’ve found that browsing the back issues a little easier via the native Google Book UI. PopSci currently only has the search exposed.

Hum, a WPF or SilverLight client would be cool, wouldn’t it?… hum…

(via Slashdot - Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives)