Historic CBS

Caption: "PC Room - Next Event to Air display showing the start of Capt. Kangaroo in DLDN for the Midwest Network." Who would have known?


Caption: "The CBS Color Test Girl - Ann Palmer".


Caption: "First live camera being installed in a chopper for the live coverage of the John Glenn parade in NY."



Some interesting historical pictures to be found at the Retired CBS Engineers Association. Link…

Classic Typewriters

Some unusual early typewriters. Link…

Alfred Beach’s Pneumatic Subway

A tube, a car, a revolving fan! The beginnings of rapid transit in New York. Link…

Building the Halley VI

On MetaFilter back in 2005, I made a post about this winning design. The first module is complete. Link…

For reference - Antarctic blizzard.

The Otis King Calculator

What it says on the box. Link…

If you really want more, visit The Oughtred Society.

Cosmonauts

At work and play. Link…

Spy Bots

Announced yesterday, Team Stellar are the winners of the Grand Challenge. They had to produce 'an autonomous or semi autonomous system designed to detect, identify, monitor and report the position of a wide range of threats within a complex military urban environment, including within individual buildings'. Link…

Albert Robida

Visionary futurist, illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. 'A baby is washed up on a tropical shore and there adopted by monkeys. Saturnin Farandoul becomes king of the monkeys and undertakes, with their help the conquest of Australia, to reclaim his bride from a stubborn Melbourne aquarium keeper.' - The Monkey King [text only]. La vie électrique [html] and La Guerre au vingtième siècle [pdf]. Link…