We at ForeverGeek approve. And thus, prepare for hours and hours of wanton geekery in front of your computer screen. Popular Science has posted scans of their complete archive on the Internet allowing anyone access to the annals of what made technology fun. That’s 137 years of history published in partnership with Google Books.

So I did a search for “Death Ray” and got entries from way back in the 1960′s. Wow A Death Ray Bomb — not only does it explode, it also houses a “death ray” that kills you off if the bomb doesn’t do you at once. Here you go.

The best part for me — the advertising. I’ve gone through stashes of comics from the 60′s and it’s interesting to see the what items were being marketed during that era, and even more interestingly, HOW they were being marketed. For some reason, during that period in the 60′s there was a prevalence of advertising with binoculars and telescopes.