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Weather Domes - 1956
Gleefully inspired from vintage_ads, the idea of a weather dome probably seemed far-fetched when this magazine ad was published in 1956. The image shows up cropped online without attribution, but a...
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Los Angeles and Unbuilt LA
International Marketland – 1959 – WL CouverlyPacific Ocean Park, A hotel off the coast of Santa Monica – 1969 – Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall (DMJM)Grand Avenue – 1979 – Barton Myers, Pelli, Gehry
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Pierre Cardin's Bubble Palace
Usually known for his futuristic fashions, Pierre Cardin lived his ideals with this fascinatingly futuristic home designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag and located on Massif de L’Esterel on the...
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Radio Controlled Farm of the Future, 1939
(from Popular Mechanics )Tomorrow's farmer, if a diorama at the New York World's Fair prophesies are right, will be rather a radio navigator and dispatcher than a tiller of the soil. The diorama...
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Videotape Recorder, 1951 USA
Charles Paulson Ginsburg (July 27, 1920 – April 9, 1992) was an American engineer and the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders.***19631973
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2001: A Space Odyssey
rare Hungarian movie poster, 1979Original Soundtrack, 1968 01. Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra02. Ligeti - Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, 2 Mixed Choirs & Orchestra03. Ligeti - Lux...
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British book art. Cyril Power (1872-1951)
The Tube Station, 1932The Tube StaircaseThe escalator, 1925The Sunshine Roof
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Tomorrow's living, view from 1944
1944 (undated) Kitchen of Tomorrow1945-09-03 The Supermarket of the Future1945-03-12 Office of the Future1945-02-12 Tomorrow`s Automatic Sleep Comfort
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Seagram`s men plans beyond tomorrow )
1943 - Chemical Bomb Will Destroy Fires1944-03-20 Lighting Electrical Storm Future Power Plant1945-01-22 Fog-melting headlights1946 - Radar saves lives tomorrow
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"Tomorrow's life in Yesterday's ads" (1942-47)
the middle-class lifestyle of the future1945-10-01 Luxurious air cruises 19461945-05-07 Travel Center - Future Airport & Train Station. Lurelle Guild Art1943-11-29 Tomorrow's Helicopter
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1947. Yesterday's Ads Predicted Today's Tech
1947-06-23 Jet-engined boats1947-03-17 Man-made snow1947-04-12 Skyway delivery1947-01-20 Light plane parachute
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Futuristic City in 1940s`s ads
1943-04-12 High-speed amphibious cars 1943-05-17 Turning Solar Home1944-02-21 Health centers1945-06-25 Futuristic Moving Sidewalks
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"Floating islands" in the middle of the Atlantic, early 1930s
In the February 1931 issue, Popular Mechanics reported on the dawn of transatlantic flight.* * * Pan American plane passing a steamer during a test many miles from shore. Flying boats like this speed...
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Prediction 1954: The Television You Can Hang On Your Wall
General Electric scientists predict your TV-picture screen in 1964 may be so thin that it can be hung like a painting on the wall or mounted like a vanity mirror in a table model.* * *
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