Funny Vintage Ads (62)
Advertising has always been an interestin g way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "Magic" in this case meant psilocybin, a naturally-occurring psychoactive and hallucinogenic compound. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "Edison's Veriscope" was actually invented by Enoch Rector in 1897. In order to accommodate large reels of film for lengthy viewing times, the camera required three operators. Those operators and the camera equipment had to be housed in a large box that acted as a dark room. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 The Friden EC-130, one of the first fully transistorized electronic calculators, first sold in 1964 for about $1,695. That's equivalent in purchasing power to about $15,500 today -- a lot for a device that could only add, subtract, multiply and divide. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Imagine spending your ...