Technology
Atomic Seeds
From the American Legion magazine for May 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 31, 2017 -
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Category: Nature, Technology, 1960s
Automatic Devil Dog Car Alarm
Contrary to the delightful ad, alarm did not speak phrases, but merely sounded the horn, as with modern car alarms.
See the actual device here, with explanation.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 13, 2016 -
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Category: Crime, Technology, 1930s, Cars
Railroad Velocipedes
I imagine you could cobble together such a rig fairly easily, if you had the right skills, and do a lot of illegal rail-riding even today.
Original foto here.
Essay from which above foto drawn is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 11, 2016 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Technology, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Just Imagine
The uproarious laughter by the human executive at the antics of Tommy Telephone, a plainly impossible vision, proclaims that the fellow is gratefully descending into the dark swamp of insanity due to the high stresses of his job.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 10, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Communications, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Technology, Telephones, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, 1940s, Brain Damage
Electromechanical Arcade Games
Barring pinball and skeeball, how did primitive youngsters amuse themselves in arcades before computer-chip video games?With electromechanical games.
As in the videos below.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 06, 2016 -
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Category: Technology, 1960s, 1970s, Videogames and Gamers
Steam Wagon Leaves for World Tour
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 02, 2016 -
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Category: Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Motor Vehicles, Technology, 1970s
The Gizmotron
Weird noises from your guitar.The history is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 29, 2016 -
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Category: Music, Technology, 1970s
Mystery Gadget 42
Purpose? The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 24, 2016 -
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Category: Technology, 1970s
Newspapers by Radio Fax: 1930s
Newspapers transmitted into your living room by radio waves!
Get the whole fascinating history here. More fotos also at the link, but not the one above, which I found independently.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 16, 2016 -
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Category: Journalism, Radio, Technology, 1930s
Mystery Gadget 41
What is the output of this machine?
The answer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 10, 2016 -
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Category: Technology, 1900s
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