April 1, 1962: Sweden Was Convinced It Could View Black and White Television in Color
This post was originally published on this siteColor television wasn’t widespread until 1966, but some Swedes armed with nylon stockings tried to get it four […]
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On 26 March 1976: HM Queen Elizabeth II Became the World’s First Monarch to Send an Email
This post was originally published on this siteWhile visiting the Royal Signals & Radar Establishment, HM Queen Elizabeth II sent her first email on 26 […]
Flu Mask of the Future, 1919
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1919, a woman wears what was most likely considered the “flu mask of the future” — a […]
Amazing Vintage Footage Shows the Legendary Finnish Icebreaker Tarmo Working in Helsinki in the 1920s
This post was originally published on this siteThis video shows opening shots from Peter von Bagh’s 2008 documentary “Helsinki, ikuisesti” (“Helsinki Forever”). It shows a […]
Amazing Vintage Photos of a Very Young Bill Gates in 1984
This post was originally published on this siteThese amazing photographs captured a very young Bill Gates in 1984 when he was still not yet 30, […]
Cool Snaps Capture Little Kids With Their Headphones in the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteWhen Sony unveiled the Walkman in 1979, it transformed the way we see and experience the world as […]
UFO Detector Ad From the 1960s (With a 100% Money Back Guarantee)
This post was originally published on this siteRemember when they detected all those UFOs with these things? And at only $17.95 it’s a bargain! Runs […]
Mac the Mechanical Man on Venice Beach, California, ca. 1935
This post was originally published on this siteMac the Mechanical Man was created by inventor Leighton Hilbert. The alleged robot reportedly weighed 250 pounds and […]
20 Amazing Vintage Photos of the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound, 1974
This post was originally published on this siteWeighed over 70 tons, comprise dozens and then hundreds of amps, speakers, subwoofers, and tweeters, stand over three-stories […]
A Ham Radio Operator Using a Teletype Model 15, 1963
This post was originally published on this siteHere’s a picture of a ham radio operator using a Teletype Model 15 paired with a Morse key. […]
Controlled Impact Demonstration: In 1984, NASA Made Airliners Safer by Crashing a Boeing 720
This post was originally published on this siteThe Controlled Impact Demonstration (or colloquially the Crash In the Desert) was a joint project between NASA and […]
Saab 99 Test Mules: When the Swedish Company Used Their Prototype ‘Paddan’ and Labeled It “Daihatsu’ to Test a Car
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1966 SAAB was secretly developing a new model. They took a body from the old 96 model […]
This Sixteenth Century Clockwork Monk Is Fully Operational
This post was originally published on this siteThe 15-inch-tall clockwork Padre, the figure of the well-known miraculous monk San Diego de Alcalá, was made of […]
Dec. 30, 1953: The First Compatible Color TV Sets Go on Sale for $1,000 (Around $9,500 Today)
This post was originally published on this siteOn June 25, 1951, CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. Unfortunately, nearly no one could […]
A Man Sold His VHS Player on eBay and Got a Heartwarming Letter Back From the 86-Year-Old Buyer
This post was originally published on this siteThey say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. One 31-year-old St. Louis man learned that in the […]
December 26, 1982: TIME’s “Man of the Year” Is a Computer
This post was originally published on this siteTIME magazine had been naming a “Man of the Year” since 1927, but broke with tradition in 1982 […]
Amazing Color Pics Document the Production Line of Porsches in Zuffenhausen in 1970
This post was originally published on this site” In 1970, I was able to tour and photograph the ‘production line’ for Porsches in Zuffenhausen, near […]
Zenith Flash-Matic, the First Wireless TV Remote
This post was originally published on this siteChannel surfing was born more than six decades ago. The first TV remote control, called the “Lazy Bones,” […]
Cool Snaps That Defined Television Styles of the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteHere is a cool photo set that shows television styles in the 1970s. See more »
50 Years Ago: Amazing Photographs of Apollo Families’ Tears and Ecstasy During Moon Landing Mission in 1969
This post was originally published on this siteFifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made history when they became the first humans to […]
12 Interesting Facts About Nikola Tesla You Probably Didn’t Know
This post was originally published on this siteNikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and […]
Interesting Vintage Photos of Men With Computers at Workplaces in the 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteComputers in the 1980s were rather different from computers of today. They could do the fundamental things a […]
These Vintage Photos of Men at Computers Show We’ve Come a Long, Long Way!
This post was originally published on this siteComputers truly came into their own as great inventions in the last two decades of the 20th century. […]
Manufacturing Concorde, the World’s First Supersonic Passenger Jet
This post was originally published on this siteConcorde remains one of the most iconic and most beautiful aircraft ever to take to the skies and […]
25 Cool Pics That Show People With Technologies in the Eighties
This post was originally published on this siteIf you lived through the 1980s, then you know it was an amazing decade. It seemed like every […]