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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That is an impressively accurate-looking future TV for something drawn in 1934. TVs of the time looked something like this:

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This looks a LOT like a 1930s radio, combined with a microfilm viewer, which was very much available at libraries everywhere in the 1930s (and can still be found in archives today).