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by dredmorbius
3586 days ago
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This trope is stunningly older than I'd have thought. 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+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=%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..." |
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