Popular Science Archive now online – and free!

Yes, that’s right, 137 years of awesome issues of Popular Science magazine are now available online by searching the archive at the PopSci website. If you’re a science or gadget nerd, you’ll have lots of fun checking out the science frontiers of decades gone by, and even checking out the advertising and graphics styles for the original issues.

About the only drawback is that you have to enter a search term to get into the archives, as there is no browse function available so far. However, once you’ve searched on a term, such as “rocket pack”, you can browse around through the whole issue using the archive viewer’s navigation.

Via Wired