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Passenger air travel in the 1920s and 30s was a uniquely exhilarating experience provided you could afford it. But for those of us stuck in a world where flying has become a mundane and sometimes excruciating ordeal, we can at least live vicariously through the past. A website called The Passion of Former Days has collected some promotional cards which give us a peek into the world of flight in the 1920s.

Twenty-five cards produced by the Arents Cigarette company are now in the New York Public Library's collection. It wasn't uncommon for companies of the early 20th century to include promotional cards in their foodstuffs and tobacco products. Futurism and the latest technological advances were common themes for the cards.

These cards are undated but the Argosy aeroplane was introduced in 1926. So the fact that the postcards mention the aircraft as new means that they're probably from the mid to late 1920s.

Of particular interest to paleofuturists might be the land lighthouses that would guide Imperial Airways planes approaching London at night. We looked at the rough American equivalent (our Highway of Light system) last year.

Check out the website The Passion of Former Days for more cards from this collection and special thanks to Slate Vault for the heads up.

Images: NY Public Library via The Passion of Former Days

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The hoverboard from Back to the Future: Part II is one of the most iconic artifacts of 20th century futurism. But surprisingly, the hovering toys were originally envisioned to be much larger than what made it on screen. That's according to John Bell, the visual effects art director on the classic 1989 film.

"The early designs for those hoverboards were much bigger," Bell told Uproxx. "More like wake boards and they had a lot more power devices on them, a lot of personalization that [Griff's] gang would have done to them. They were much more elaborate. But they kept evolving and whittling back till it became the minimal boards."

The Uproxx interview with Bell has plenty of other behind-the-scenes trivia from BTTF2 including his marching orders from the producers: "We don't have a script. All we know is they go 30 years in the future and there's something called hoverboards. So come up with some stuff."

And come up with some stuff they did, creating a movie that left an entire generation enthralled with the years to come and more than a little disappointed that we still don't have our hoverboards.

You can read the entire interview with Bell over at Uproxx. He talks about surveillance, hologram sharks, and the fashion of 2015. Bell's reflection on his own childhood in the 1960s and the optimistic futurism of that era is particularly fascinating.

"I grew up as a kid in the '60s and all the images of the future back then were optimistic," Bell told Uproxx. "We're going to be having jet packs and cars and city under bubbles and there would be peace and no bigotry. A lot of wonderful things and a lot of that hasn't happened."

In the end it would seem that Bell's legacy as a Baby Boomer was to pass the torch of optimistic futurism to Gen X and Millennial kids around the world, only to set us all up yet again for disappointment that the world is still so broken.

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Astronaut Barry Wilmore and the first 3D printed part in space. (Credit: Made In Space/NASA)

The International Space Stations newly-installed 3D printer made history on Tuesday by manufacturing the first object ever 3D printed in space.

NASAs 3D printer was developed under a contract with the startup Made In Space, which was founded in 2010. The purpose of the 3D printer is to experiment with the possibility of manufacturing crucial replacement parts on on the station, foregoing the expense of shipping them via rocket.

This first print is the initial step toward providing an on-demand machine shop capability away from Earth, said NASAs Niki Werkheiser, project manager for the International Space Station 3-D Printer, in a press release.

The printer was delivered to the space station in September via a Space X Dragon capsule. It was installed on the station on November 17, and the first in a series of calibration prints was made. More calibration prints followed over the next few days.

On Tuesday, November 25, the first actual part was manufactured by the 3D-printer a faceplate for a printhead extruder on the printer itself. The teams at NASA and Made In Space are currently looking at the data from the part to see how it conforms to expectations.

As we print more parts well be able to learn whether some of the effects we are seeing are caused by microgravity or just part of the normal fine-tuning process for printing. When we get the parts back on Earth, well be able to do a more detailed analysis to find out how they compare to parts printed on Earth, Werkheiser said in the release.

More importantly, this demonstrates that Made In Spaces printer works which means that 3D printing could become an important part of the research being conducted on board the International Space Station, both for NASA and the commercial space industry.

This project demonstrates the basic fundamentals of useful manufacturing in space. The results of this experiment will serve as a stepping stone for significant future capabilities that will allow for the reduction of spare parts and mass on a spacecraft, which will change exploration mission architectures for the better, Made In Spaces Mike Snyder said in a statement.

The information from these experiments will help as the team at Made In Space works on its next 3D printer, which is expected to be delivered to the ISS in early 2015.

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