Tag: Machines

Andrée’s Polar Expedition (1897). A found expedition camera (1930) [via Tekniska museet].

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1955: George Sidney, left, while directing swimmer and actress Esther Williams on the set of his film "Jupiter's Darling." The cameraman is wearing scuba gear.
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Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the “Spruce Goose”) at Long Beach, California 1947. This plane, the largest flying boat ever built and with the largest wingspan of…

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The Beach Pneumatic Subway Tunnel under Broadway, 1873. New-York Historical Society # 70265 In 1869, folowing the use of pneumatic tubes for postal communication, Alfred Ely Beach started…

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“What to do for a splitting backache…automated caveman gets a rear-end drive”, Popular Science, January 1964

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Movie Slot Machine Shows Pictures of Latest News Events Illustration taken from Modern Mechanix, Nov. 1932 MOTION-PICTURE newsreels are on view for a nickel in a modern version of the…

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Variable Density Wind Tunnel arriving by rail to Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on February 3, 1922 from the Newport News Shipbuilding.

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Alfred C. Loonam. Beach Pneumatic Tunnel Under Broadway, ca. 1870. Museum of the City of New York.  

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El gabinete de mecanoterapia del Dr. Bartrina Costa, Madrid (?), 1919.