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Wow, amazing pictures
nice. last one must be from world war one.
did you know this one ?
http://hippopotable.blogspot.com/2006/03/lhippopotable-conseille_09.html
Uh, those "personal massage devices" were not just for "scalp and foot massages". That's just how they had to advertise them.
Hey, that "mystery image" on the right? That's the female robot for the new Transformers movie, right?
World War One, France: a radiographer wearing protective clothing and headpiece. Photograph by H. J. Hickman, ca. 1918. Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Paul: the "radiofrigo" is a keeper. Gorgeous; merci.
I always forget, somehow, that you younger guys missed out on so much cool stuff. The '60s and early '70s were amazing in terms of sound equipment. In the '50s the hippest thing going were tiny "portable hi-fi's" that only played 45 rpm discs, which had a 2-inch hole in the center. There were competing ideas about whether it was better to have an enormous spindle or just little plastic (or much hipper, metal) inserts that snapped in and had a standard spindle-sized hole in the center.
In the '60s you could get STEREO!! players that had 45, 33, and 78 rpm speed choices, and some even had 16 rpm gearing as an option. This meant you could play standard 33 1/3 rpm albums at 78 and produce chipmunk noises, or play them at 16 for the Quaalude effect. Hours of fun.
And I well remember discovering "massagers" in about '68 or so, to my wife's delight.
Zoooom! Whoosh!
I think part of our modern problems stem from the unfulfilled promises of mid-century design. The World's Fair imagery was so wonderful, yet so far from what could really be engineered for consumers, that the gap between marketing and product grew too wide for trust.
The zoomy 60's "telecom room" -- what was with the "Time Tunnel" aesthetic? (groovy rounded control panels set in a cavernous darkness)
The Soviet phones -- Yum!
"Da, tovarich! - The Party will reach out and touch you!"
Soviet stuff is so cool because of the USSR's Russian heritage and closed system - giantism and science joined to weird copycat and original engineering.
I actually have the drill, as advertised by the DIY super smiley couple, I had no idea it was that old.
I wonder if you have ever come across a radial layout on an instrument panel? It seems that grid layout rules even in times when other geometric or unusual layouts would fit the style. I would love to see some examples of radial or other exotic layouts. got any?
...What are described as, "steam irons" are in all actuality...FIRE-irons! ...where one would insert hot, burning-coals into these Dante-onian devices...designed to really, really put a pressed 'n' smoked meaning behind the back then, all to common phrase, "...darlin', you scorched my Eton...and are these...burn-holes!?!"
Yes, FIRE! "San-n-n-cer...the candles' are BURN-NING bright..."!
The one w/the FUEL-bulb...burned kero!
Ahh, th' GOOD, ol' days...
Thanks for a really excellent article. Obviously it's mostly image-driven but still a great retro-tech article.
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