tech history
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Dishwashers of the Future Were Sometimes Supposed to Just Break Your Dishes
“The house of 1999 will be virtually maintenance free,” the narrator declares in his 1967 concept film. And while you can probably guess some of the technological advancements in the movie — like computers, fax machines, and even email — there’s one prediction from the short promotional film that didn’t quite pan out. It was…
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Here’s Some Lost Footage Of Einstein In A Flying Car
An archival science student stumbled upon an old cardboard box whilst working at the Lincoln Centre in new York City last year. Labelled ‘Godowsky Home Movies’, it contained a hidden that until now, had been a lost piece of history – a film canister titled ‘Einstein’. The footage inside depicts the 20th-century genius driving and…
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The 1930s Refrigerator-Radio Combo That Never Quite Took Off
By the late 1930s the vast majority of American households had a radio. So how were radio manufacturers supposed to expand their market? By insisting that the ideal American home has a radio in every room. Sometimes that meant putting radios in the latest appliances — like right inside every American’s favourite new gadget, the…