Technology
Hot Meal Vending Machines
In 1968 (perhaps even earlier), an inventor had the notion of serving hot meals from a vending machine.
Lo and behold, today his dream is a reality. Would you sample such fare?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 07, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Technology, 1960s, Asia
Alternative Flight Simulator
Gadget-maker Alex Shakespeare has built an "alternative flight simulator, from a passenger's perspective." This allows him to pretend he's flying on a plane, without actually being on one.He needs to put a row of seats a few inches in front of him to create the full, no-legroom effect.
More info: Alex Shakespeare's website
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 02, 2022 -
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Category: Technology, Air Travel and Airlines
EMAG-3
I did a science fair project in high school, but I put so little effort into it that I'm now embarrassed thinking back on it. The topic I chose was "The Electrolysis of Water." I basically just had some electrodes splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.David Ecklein, however, had an extraordinary high school science fair project. Back in 1959, he built a computer, which he named EMAG-3, that was capable of playing "an interesting and reasonable game" of checkers. It was made from 3200 vacuum tubes and three miles of wiring. It stood 15 feet tall.
On his website, he notes that he designed it to fit the science fair floor space requirements, knowing that the regulations had omitted to mention anything about how high a project could be. Height restrictions were introduced the following year.
More info: MIT Museum
Great Falls Tribune - Apr 17, 1959
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 13, 2022 -
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Category: School, Technology, Computers, 1950s
Mystery Gadget 102
Automatic fingernail painter? What's your guess?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 15, 2022 -
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Category: Technology, 1950s
Mystery Illustration 108
What's extra-special about this submarine?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 18, 2022 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Technology, 1950s, Weapons
The Teppaz Transistradio
Besides having an unpronounceable name and being ugly, this French radio-turntable looks like very kludgy tech.The entry at the Radio Museum.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 08, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Radio, Technology, 1960s, Europe
World’s Largest Collection of 8-Track Tapes
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 09, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Kitsch and Collectibles, Music, Technology
The Prayer
Text by Enrico Santus. More info: Diemut Strebe
Diemut Strebe has made a previous appearance on WU:
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 25, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Religion, Technology, AI, Robots and Other Automatons
Follies of the Madmen #533
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 22, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Technology, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Null-A Synthesizers
Synthesizers employing chaos patterns to produce very weird sounds.Purchase yours at their home page. There you will find many more sound samples like the ones below.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 13, 2022 -
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Category: Technology, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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