February 2021
February 3, 2021
Wearable buildings
New from Louis Vuitton for its Fall 2021 menswear collection: 3D Skyline Puffer Jackets.At least they look warm. So not entirely impractical.
More info: today.com
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 03, 2021 -
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Category: Fashion
American Look
Your head will be spinning with Midcentury Modern designs by the end of this film. A Utopia that never was.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 03, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Design and Designers, Recreation, Interior Decorating, 1950s, Cars, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
February 2, 2021
Groundhog Detector
Feb 1947: the residents of Quarryville, Pennsylvania used strange, new technology in an attempt to detect and communicate with groundhogs.
Chairman of the Hibernating Groundhog Lodge in Quarryville, Pa. calibrates the "ultra-secret invention" that will be used to contact "10,672 registered groundhogs in Lancaster County" on Groundhog Day.
image source: Temple University Library
Louisville Courier-Journal - Feb 2, 1947
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Feb 2, 1947
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 02, 2021 -
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Category: Holidays, Inventions, 1940s
“The Great Society” Comic Book
Read the whole thing here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 02, 2021 -
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Category: Humor, Parody, Politics, Comics, Superheroes, 1960s
February 1, 2021
The Pyrophone
The pyrophone or "flame organ" is a musical instrument "in which musical sounds are produced by the vibration of flames of hydrogen gas with glass or other tubes." It was invented in 1871 by Frederic Kastner, who was only nineteen at the time.One of these would look way cooler than a piano in the living room.
More info: Nature's 1882 obit of Kastner, his 1875 patent for the pyrophone
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 01, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Patents, Nineteenth Century
Mystery Gadget 92
What's it for?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 01, 2021 -
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Category: Technology
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