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Tupolev Tu-144 was the world’s first commercial supersonic transport aircraft, premiered on 31 December 1968, just two months before the first flight of Concorde. The aircraft was introduced…
March, 2, 1969: The first flight of Concorde 001 F-WTSS. The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse and was in the air for just 27 minutes before the…
1969 Bizzarrini Manta This concept car by Giorgetto Giugiaro was built on top of a P538 chassis, a car designed by Giotto Bizzarrini.
1967 OSI Silver Fox Prototype (OSI goes for Officina Stampaggio Industriale SpA, an Italian car manufacturer founded in 1960). The Silver Fox featured a 1.0 litre Renault Alpine…
01 Nov 1947, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA Howard Hughes makes preparations for the historic flight of the Spruce Goose. Designed to be used during World War…
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…
Helen Soros works the new pneumatic tube system to take cash at Marshall Fields store in Chicago, November 26, 1947.
N.Y. Post Office Pneumatic Tube, c. 1912. The first pneumatic tube mail system was installed in New York City in 1897. Each tube could carry between 400 and 600…
The War Office Sub-centre despatch room, London, 1925. Pneumatic messaging blows cylinders carriers inside tubes and was developed in London in the 1850’s as a way to handle…