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 […]
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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 […]
Amazing Vintage Photos of Hughes H-4 Hercules, The World’s Largest Flying Boat That Flew for Only 26 Seconds
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1942, the U.S. War Department needed to transport war materiel and personnel to Britain. Allied shipping in […]
Cantilever Bridge Human Model, And Amazing Photographs of Scotland’s Forth Bridge Under Construction From the 1890s
This post was originally published on this siteTo illustrate the design principle behind the Forth Bridge, engineer Sir Benjamin Baker offered a personal demonstration. Sir […]
The Only Known Photo of Albert Einstein With His Energy-Mass Equation, 1934
This post was originally published on this siteAt a public lecture in Pittsburgh in 1934, four hundred lucky students were privy to a lecture by […]
In the 1920s, Fiat Factory Workers Race on the Rooftop for the Test Track in Turin
This post was originally published on this siteThe Lingotto building in Turin, Italy, once housed a Fiat factory. Construction started in 1916 and the building […]
The Last Known Photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Boarding the Space Shuttle on January 28, 1986
This post was originally published on this siteThis is the last known photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew boarding the space shuttle on January 28, […]
27 Vintage Snaps Capture People Watching TV in the Past
This post was originally published on this siteBefore internet, here is what people often did in their freetime in the past. See more »
Can It Be Done? These Vintage Ideas From the 1930s That Seem to Have Been Implemented Today
This post was originally published on this siteThat television newspaper + the car phone = the smartphone, right? And how about Skype for intramural television? […]
In 1968, Computers Got Personal: How Douglas Engelbart’s "Mother of All Demos" Changed Personal Technology Forever
This post was originally published on this siteIn the America of 1968, computers weren’t at all personal. They were refrigerator-sized behemoths that hummed and blinked, […]
20 Vintage Photographs of People With Their Commodore 64, One of the Most Beloved Home Computers of All Time
This post was originally published on this siteThe 8-bit home computer Commodore 64 (commonly known as the C64 or C=64), introduced by Commodore International in […]
Amazing Portraits of ’80s Geeks
This post was originally published on this siteIn computers and the Internet, a geek is a person who is inordinately dedicated to and involved with […]
Assembly Mercedes-Benz 190 SL, February 1958
This post was originally published on this siteThe Mercedes-Benz 190 SL is a two-door luxury roadster produced by Mercedes-Benz between May 1955 and February 1963. […]
Long Before Facetime, These 22 Cool Pics That Show People Using Picturephones in the 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteBell Telephone’s Picturephone went on display at the 1964 World’s Fair, and it went into actual commercial use […]
Margaret Hamilton Poses Next to a Huge Stack of Code She Wrote by Hand That Took Humanity to the Moon in 1969
This post was originally published on this siteHalf a century ago, MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s […]
22 Old Photos That Show What Telephones Looked Like in the 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteIn the USA, at the start of the 1960s, telephones were generally the desk model with a rotary […]
A Gallery of 20 Photos of Philco Predicta TV Sets, the Most Iconic of American Television Designs
This post was originally published on this siteThe Philco Predicta is a television made in several cabinet models in a 17” or 21” screen by […]
36 Most Amazing Spy Gadgets From the Cold War Era
This post was originally published on this siteCold war era is Famous for the espionage and spying operations by the world’s two biggest spy organizations […]
The Lost Art of Cassette Design
This post was originally published on this siteSteve Vistaunet’s Pinterest is a treasure-trove of photos of exuberant cassette spine designs from the gilded age of […]
Cross Section of the Midship Section of the HMS Olympic (1909)
This post was originally published on this siteCross section of the HMS Olympic, giving an idea of her tremendous size and capacity. This cross section appeared […]
Here’s What a Publishing Company’s Office Space Looked Like in the Mid-1980s
This post was originally published on this siteThe July 1986 issue of a color computing magazine called Rainbow offers some dynamite photographs of life in […]
1940s Printing Technique: When Printing Photos on Fabric Was the Next Big Thing
This post was originally published on this siteIn the 1940s, men and women had been pushing the technical limits of photography ever since the medium […]
Behind the Scenes From the Making of 2014 Dove Chocolate Commercial With Audrey Hepburn
This post was originally published on this siteThis is a commercial ad of Galaxy chocolate which was released in March 2014 in United Kingdom, under […]
Closer Than We Think: 40 Visions of the Future World According to Arthur Radebaugh
This post was originally published on this siteFrom 1958 to 1962, illustrator and futurist Arthur Radebaugh thrilled newspaper readers with his weekly syndicated visions of […]
A Woman May Be President! And What Experts in 1950 Predicted for 21st Century Life
This post was originally published on this site The December 27, 1950 Robesonian (Lumberton, NC) ran an Associated Press article titled, “How Experts Think We’ll […]