Technology
The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book
This is one of those volumes you pack away for when civilization collapses, as it give the formulas for making from scratch glass, nitroglycerin, glue, and a thousand other handy things.
Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 13, 2020 -
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Category: Science, Technology, Books, Nineteenth Century
The Chelsea Flash Pistol
Source of first pic.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 22, 2020 -
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Category: Death, Destruction, Photography and Photographers, Technology, Nineteenth Century
Hand Taser, 1935
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 21, 2020 -
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Category: Crime, Inventions, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Technology, 1930s
Mystery Gadget 87
This device measures something. What?
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 19, 2020 -
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Category: Technology, 1900s
Mystery Gadget 86
What's going on here?
Answer at the link, or beyond the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 01, 2020 -
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Category: Technology, 1930s
Accidental Prophets
From 1966.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 31, 2020 -
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Category: Fashion, Technology, Telephones, Zeitgeist, Advertising, Anomie, Exhaustion, and General Malaise
Telemeter: 1960s Pay TV
Pay TV in the 1950s and 1960s? Yes, it was a thing, as the article below explains.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the topic.
Here's a good article on the Canadian version.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 24, 2020 -
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Category: Regionalism, Technology, Television, 1950s, 1960s
Digital Rubik’s Cube
A toy that seemed utterly immune to becoming digital...was not.Review and details here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 12, 2020 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Technology, Toys
Human-Powered Flight
"Vélocipède aérien," proposed by Jean Jacques Bourcart, Paris, August, 1866
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 11, 2020 -
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Category: Death, Flight, Technology, Nineteenth Century
Mystery Gadget 85
What's happening to this poor woman?Answer is here.
Or behind the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 06, 2020 -
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Category: Technology, 1930s
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