Thursday, April 9, 2026

The Future of Transportation!

Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938

 But hadn't we already eliminated Zeppelins a few years earlier?

3 comments:

  1. My great-grandpappy lost the family fortune investing in the Trans-Continental Tethered Zeppelin Line. Basically they were gonna cable airships to freight trains and pull them from New York to LA. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

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  2. "...airships crashing every day into the bay..." (Be Bop Deluxe)

    Bicycles are for the plebs, don'tcha know?

    D.

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