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Friday, January 24, 2014

"Land, Sea or Air-- springs take you there."

We recently came across a book of bound magazines for the spring (yes, like a slinky) industry from the 1940's-1960's, called The Mainspring  ("Published in the interest of a better understanding of the design and application of springs in mechanical progress." )

You wouldn't think that there's all that much that could be said about springs, especially over twenty years in a regularly published periodical.  Wrong!
The Mainspring features beautiful graphics with vibrantly colored backgrounds, and often shows spring humor.
A spring cocktail?

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

As Seen on 60 Minutes

On the Abebooks' booksellers' forum there's been a discussion of the recent announcement by Amazon that they plan to use drones to deliver packages.  One person posted this: