Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

When Western Union Center first half-tone photograph over telephone lines in 1921, it wasn't

the first time the world had seen photos sent by phone.

The same holds true for the boom in the travel trailer industry in the 1930s.

Many had already been there, seen that.

This, and many other examples, is true because of the exploits of one Tom Swift, the heroic

young adult prodigy created by writer and publisher Edward Stratomire.

In Tom Swift and his photo-telephone, the idea of sending pictures by telephone predates

the actual invention by 13 years.

Similarly, Tom Swift and his wizard camera, featuring a portable movie camera, was 11 years

ahead of its time.

And one more for good measure, Tom Swift and his diving sea-copter, which sounds like science-fiction

today, but came true with the creation of the Flying Submarine, produced by the Department

of Defense four years after the book was published.

And either Edward Stratomire was actually a genius, or he had friends in all the right

places.

Whatever the case, reading any Tom Swift novel became like seeing the future, albeit in the hands

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