Here at Paleofuture we often take a facial expression at the most fantastical visions of the future : jetpacks , flee cars , meal pills , robot gigolos …
More seldom do we look at downplay delineation of the time to come in chronicle , but because they tend to come along quite ordinary to mod eyes . This illustration byHarry Grant Dart — a man who was no unknown to thecartoonishand thefantastical — record the U.S. airpost avail in the not - too - distant future tense . The image appeared on the May 31 , 1919 cover of Literary Digest and prove mail bag impound to chute , which are then drop by airplane ; all eyes of a little township fixated on this postal payload from the sphere .
While the first aerial post service in the United State was tested in 1911 , it was n’t until May 15 , 1918 that thefirst chain mail routefrom New York to Washington D.C. was established . A few month later theU.S. Postal Service took over airmail duties from the U.S. Army , but regularly scheduled ill-tempered - country airpost did n’t set about until 1924 .
As one might expect , it took a tenacious time to modernize airmail Robert William Service , but Dart ’s image — however quaint it appears today — depicts one rotatory step forward in have our reality feel that much modest .
This post in the beginning appear atPaleofuture.com .
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