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Says headlines in 1950s Popular Mechanics, and annually since then...
by krazydad 10y ago
Says headlines in 1950s Popular Mechanics, and annually since then...
- dredmorbius 10y agoThis trope is stunningly older than I'd have thought. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=flying+car&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cflying%20car%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=flying+car&yea... Starts in the 1750s, though some of that is simply justipostion of the words "flying" and "car", often with intervening punctuation. A 1923 article: https://books.google.com/books?id=BcIrAQAAMAAJ&q=%22flying+car%22&dq=%22flying+car%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4qKL5-ejOAhXDFx4KHfZ7BBQQ6AEIUjAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=BcIrAQAAMAAJ&q=%22flying+c... "future flying car will weigh far less than our present-day cars. The entire upper part of the body will be enclosed in an unbreakable, unburnable, glass-like substance. This is quite necessary, particularly for the ..." And from 1810: https://books.google.com/books?id=P_AOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3&dq=%22flying+car%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrq8r0-ejOAhVMmx4KHRKJDFoQ6AEIJjAA https://books.google.com/books?id=P_AOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3&dq=%22... "likewise instructions and plans, for making a flying car with wings, in which a man may sit, and, by working a small lever, cause himself to ascend and soar through the air with the facility of a bird..."