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Glimpse the future - from 1939

By Daniel Smith on Apr 30, 10 06:13 PM

April 30, 1939, saw the launch of the New York World's Fair.

It gave visitors a glimpse of "the world of tomorrow" and shape industrial design, pop culture and the way the future would envision the future.

Here's The New York Public Library will some of their keepsakes from the event.

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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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