Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread! (1930)
The Mk V was a Fighter design in the form of a sesquiplane (a biplane having one wing of less than half the area of the other) with straight lower wing and no tail. The experimental craft was fitted with a 600 hp Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine and two Vickers machine guns. While it demonstrated equal capability to conventional fighters of the day, other issues prevented it from going into production. It was first flown from Andover in May 1934.
An operator in Chicago in 1928 announces the time every 15 seconds
Elektro the Moto-Man, built by Westinghouse, performs 26 human-like tasks at the World’s Fair, New York City 1939
Various imagery and sketches showing how Fritz Lang’s Metropolis came into being.
Continue reading “Making Metropolis, 1926”
Steam Tractor by Jerome I. Case Threshing Machine Company, Wisconsin
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Born out of the need to protect from German attacks on night convoys, this unnamed soviet night vision prototype would provide truck drivers and soldiers visibility out to approximately 100 feet. The weight of the device was about 20lbs.
Continue reading “Soviet Night-Vision, 1941”
A map of how North America would look if the area of each state were proportional to its number of homes with radios.
Marian Marsh posing on an Ingo-Bike. The bike had a springy foot board and no pedals. The bicycle was propelled forward by a combination of pulling on the steering bar and body movement.
