Weird

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Entries 61–70, oldest first.

№ 0061

Klim powdered milk advertisement, The Saturday Evening Post (1920)

Advertisement for Klim powdered milk from the April 10, 1920 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, credited to the Merrell-Soule Company; an 827 by 559 pixel scan.

240 KB · 827 × 559 · archived here

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Public domain, per the file's own licence record on Wikimedia Commons.

№ 0062

Accident Investigation Report: American Airlines Flight 6780, Elizabeth, New Jersey, January 22, 1952

Civil Aeronautics Board report SA-253, twelve pages, adopted April 25, 1952, on the crash of a Convair 240 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, that killed all twenty-three aboard and seven people on the ground.

877 KB · 12 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: rosap.ntl.bts.gov

Rights belong to someone else. The copy here supports the commentary on this page, and comes down on request.

№ 0063

A Review of Criticality Accidents, 2000 Revision (LA-13638)

Los Alamos National Laboratory report LA-13638, 158 pages, cataloguing documented criticality accidents for the use of criticality safety practitioners.

3.6 MB · 158 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: www.nrc.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0064

R. Bryan Erb oral history, Johnson Space Center, 1999

Oral history transcript, 69 pages, of R. Bryan Erb, interviewed by Carol Butler for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project in Houston on 14 October 1999. It begins with his boyhood in Calgary and his path to AVRO.

196 KB · 69 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: www.nasa.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0065

W. L. (Bud) Rusho oral history, Bureau of Reclamation, 1995

Oral history transcript, 142 pages, of W. L. (Bud) Rusho, recorded in Salt Lake City in 1995 by the Bureau of Reclamation's senior historian and published in 2008.

252 KB · 142 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: www.usbr.gov

Rights belong to someone else. The copy here supports the commentary on this page, and comes down on request.

№ 0066

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (Unimark International, 1970)

A 1970 standards manual for the New York City subway, produced by Unimark International, setting out the grid, colours, typeface, arrows and route bullets for every sign in the system.

14.6 MB · 182 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: archive.org

Rights belong to someone else. The copy here supports the commentary on this page, and comes down on request.

№ 0067

A Delphi Forecast of Technology in Education (Washington University, NASA grant, 1973)

Report T-73/1 by Burke E. Robinson, August 1973, 140 pages: expert panel forecasts of the uses and social effects of satellite educational telecommunications, funded by a NASA grant.

3.5 MB · 140 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: ntrs.nasa.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0068

NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System: Seventh Quarterly Report (NASA TM-78528, 1978)

Quarterly summary of voluntary pilot and controller reports received October to December 1977, 60 pages, with a study of conflicts at uncontrolled airports and alert bulletins.

3.5 MB · 60 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: ntrs.nasa.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0069

At 60 Miles An Hour (Rolls-Royce advertisement, 1958-1962)

Rolls-Royce print advertisement, run 1958 to 1962, whose headline sets the loudest noise at sixty miles an hour against the dashboard clock. Copy by David Ogilvy.

no copy here

Read about it · source: swiped.co

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№ 0070

The Eclipse Project (NASA SP-2000-4523, Tom Tucker, 2000)

NASA History Division monograph, 179 pages, on a Dryden flight research program that tested towing as a way to launch rockets, with Tucker's narrative and the program's working documents.

6.2 MB · 179 pages · archived here

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Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).