Flying To The Moon In 1920

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[@yallainrite3658]

Imagine being part of a generation that saw the introduction of electricity to society, the first automobiles, airplanes, radio, television, antibiotics, the first vaccine, and the landing of astronauts on the moon. I miss my grandparents!

[@2150dalek]

The twenties seem like an era full of wonder. Those drawings, blueprints are intriguing. Thank you for researching these interesting historical articles.

[@kurtb8474]

My grandparents were in their 20s by this time. I'm sure that at the time they heard a lot of ideas like this about traveling to the moon. By the time I was a child in the 1960s, only one of my grandparents was still living. My grandmother Anna. I was 9 when the first men landed on the moon and walked around. We sat in our living room and watched. My grandma did too and I remember wondering what she thinking. It must have been something to see for her, as it was for the rest of us.

[@sherirobinson6867]

I think the same thing about my grandmother. Who saw her brother in 1913 ran over by a car when there weren't even hardly any cars in the world at that time. They did all their farming with horses and buggies. To go on and see the advancement of machinery, assembly lines, world wars and then to go on to space and to live until the technical revolution began with cell phones and computers in the homes. I often wonder what it was like for her to see this much in her nearly 100 years of life.

[@darrellcook8253]

That is family values right before our eyes. Gathering around the tv and watching history being made. I was born in 1954 and I watched that space program developing into the technology we take for granted now. My parents were obsessed with that sort of thing and encouraged me to pay attention to the changing world. Family.

[@matthewsenn]

Motorcycles on the moon? God I wish

[@calvinkatt662]

I hope they remembered to adjust the carburetors to compensate for the lack of air.

[@darrellcook8253]

That seem really doable. And light electric motorcycles already exist, all they would need is to be modified with fat tires, vacuum safe batteries and other stuff like seat covers, grips and wiring. Suits would have to be redesigned to take a fall without exploding or leaking. It's kinda clumsy with fat gloves and limited vision. But fun.

[@geraldking4080]

Can you find any '20s wildlife films shot from biplanes flying low over the African rivers and savannahs? Elephant herds as far as they could see....

[@Ordinaryguy82]

I love this channel, thanks for always sharing truly interesting information that has wonderful imagination and thought. Genuinely love this.

[@mah6183]

Poor guy handling that radium... probably died of cancer and had no idea why.

[@mystikgleam9541]

actually the real first man on the moon was a wizard and his team of astronauts where they shot the moon in the eye and discovered rare intergalactic species living on there totally true it happened in 1902

[@susansanchez4794]

This was very interesting and how research was done to try to get to the moon and back, love the illustrations, especially the one that showed all the equipment and supplies needed, interesting that motorcycles would be used to explore the surface of the moon, these articles from the '20's are great, thank you for sharing this with us all, love your channel, hello from Orange County, CA 🤗👋🌝🚀🪐

[@orbyfan]

This article appeared a month after the New York Times published an editorial ridiculing Dr. Goddard's belief that a rocket could reach the moon. The day after the launch of Apollo 11, they printed a correction, stating "The Times regrets the error."

[@DJSockmonkeyMusic]

Arthur C Clarke wrote a pop science book describing the practical mathematics of achieving orbital and translunar flight in 1952 (published in 53). It also describes things like computer systems that needed to be developed, oxygen, water, probable conditions on the lunar surface that were incredibly accurate and a host of other things about rocketry and space flight. I know it's not the 20s, but it was still 15 years before the first lunar landing, and makes for a fascinating read given what we now know. This article was very cool though. I'm a real sucker for futurism of the past. I wish we still had that kind of social optimism.

[@darrellcook8253]

They had a future to look forward to not dread. Something vital is weak or missing. That's how it feels now. Then theres Star Trek. Cell phones. Satellite tv. Me able to express this. The future is now. WHERE'S MY ATOMIC FLYING CAR?

[@Muonium1]

That last shot of the man supposedly (I have my doubts), holding a capsule of 1 full Curie of radium (1 Curie of activity = 1g radium by definition) is actually fairly terrifying. It would have been producing enough radiation to be slightly physically warm to the touch and emitting enough gamma radiation to give a dose rate of at least several hundred REM on contact. If it was in fact real, and he held it for any significant amount of time, he would have experienced notable skin burns on his hands as a result. I would like to know more about that image. Was the "glow" added in as a photo edit later? If it was under water and the image taken in darkness it actually could have been Cherenkov radiation genuinely imaged by the camera.

[@darrellcook8253]

That's a great idea! Handling radioactive material with zero protection has consequences, bad consequences. So little was known about radiation and atomic dangers. Still...those were interesting, the use of atomic power to fly a rocketship is mind boggling. But what caught my eye was the ability of the camera to catch the glow. That stuff was HOT! A lucky photo. Dreamers.

[@ohppig1]

The Max Fleisher short mentioned must be "All Aboard For a Trip to the Moon" (1920) which apparently still exists in a partial state. Some shots may be in "A Trip to the Planets (192?) In the Prelinger archives

[@Doodle1678]

Retro futurism is always something that has fascinated me it’s just interesting how people imagined stuff in the future would look and some of the ideas are quite fascinating sci fi seems like an era of wonder

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Back then going to the moon was a fantasy. People couldn't imagine what would happen in 1969.

[@warjunkie8242]

Lol I love these programs the past is so interesting

[@iplaymytele]

More info like this… Extremely entertaining and educational ….👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@redjupiter2]

I just stumbled upon your channel and very much enjoyed this video. I would only suggest that you try a little microphone proximity, getting closer to the microphone. This will take away quite a bit of the room resonance that exist in the audio portion of your videos. In actuality it kind of gives it an old-fashioned sound lol, but on quality sound systems it sounds like you’re talking inside of a jar. otherwise it’s fantastic. Keep up the good work.

[@jeffjohnson789]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@6omega2]

Well, as it finally came true, trans lunar injection burn had nothing to do with "radium," but it's interesting how many of the basic concepts were already being worked out.

[@darrellcook8253]

They were thinking about a lot of things that eventually made the grade and became reality. And some of their ideas were a hoot. There was a future to look forward to, not a future to dread. In 200 hundred years what is left of humans will be reading old newspapers and books and scratching their heads. WTF was WRONG with our ancestors? Yee haww!

[@majestic1222]

Awesome upload 👍

[@kennethoneal1641]

Such a hope for the power of radium, just a few years before the radium girls lawsuits…

[@johntyjp]

Much easier way of going to the moon, was to have as many of those newly invented cocktails. Doo whacker doo hic 😆🧐

[@darrellcook8253]

Everytime I fly to the moon I either get arrested or wake up in some field dancing with a headless store mannequin under the stars. Doesn't everybody? ???

[@alancranford3398]

Werner von Braun accomplished this dream of travel to the moon by selling his soul--twice.

[@bennorwood8433]

Did you just say Mac Fleischer

[@darrellcook8253]

Nobody understood orbital mechanics at that time at least one that allowed a landing on any planet in one piece. And radium powered? The exhaust would sterilize wherever it was turned on. They didn't understand atomics either. Someone's dreaming. Far ahead of time.

[@glennso47]

Science! Oh, Brother! 👎

[@kidmohair8151]

ah yes...the boundless faith in the application of unproven science. we have paid dearly for the rush to profit from new ideas that haven't been subjected to thorough testing.