How Ad Men Invented The Future Post-war artists sold us a vision of a luxurious, automated suburban lifestyle.

15 Completely Ridiculous Inventions (X-Post WTF)

c.1970: GE ‘Orbiter’ Radio

A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station in 1961.

The bike of the future:

A 1924 article imagines “radio-tele-mechanics”-controlled police automatons to quell riots [xpost r/robotics]

East India Company confrontation with Mysorean rockets came in 1780 at the Battle of Guntur, India.

1957 Chrysler Ghia Super Dart 400.

Pretty accurate portrayal, she even has a pre-roll in her hand!

Lancia Stratos Zero

Introducing Nopia

Radio controlled police “automatons” of the future – 1924, Gernsback

Awful blobfish-looking A90 Supra

The galactic portal from “THEY LIVE” – 1988. Excellent scene in an excellent film.

Bicycle of the future in 1946

Happy belated (June 13) to Ralph McQuarrie, the artist whose concepts were the first images Mark Hamill saw for Star Wars

A Corvette Mako Shark II, 1965 x-post /r/OldSchoolCool

On a long journey. Oil painting by me

Anthropomorphic Robot Faces

Soviet turbojet train (abandoned)

You’ll breeze right over cross-town traffic by 1960 – Life magazine, August 30, 1937

This was the ‘Bicycle of the Future’ in 1946

1986 • Oldsmobile Incas

70s Sci-Fi Art David Schleinkofer.

some groovy matte work from “Battle Beyond the Stars” – 1980. Grow yer own affordable housing.

Nailed it

Space couple from the “Tomorrowland” attraction in Disneyland (1960).

A desk fan from the 1930s

Some of Ralph McQuarrie’s Concept Art for Star Wars

Space couple from the “Tomorrowland” attraction in Disneyland (1960).

Collier’s Motors, built 1948. Image from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45379817@N08/5498153890

Hello everyone! This is one of my works, based from a comic/manga I’d like to publish, enjoy! :)

1958 Golden Sahara II w/ Goodyear Illuminated Neothane Glow Tires

Frisky robot, there’ll be time for that later!!! From the 1979 version of “The Shape of Things to Come”

Space suits with so much cool they MUST be Italian. From “Planet of the Vampires” – 1965. How I want that jacket…

Neural interface from “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine” – 1965. Happy birthday, Vincent Price.

Old Diving Suits Are So Cool

A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station in 1961

Metropolis (1927) Set Preserved in the German Cinema Museum

1947 18-Window Frankenstein Buick Hearse (from r/creepy)

Yacht of the Future by Arthur Radebaugh

1989, Honda CO-29 concept.

A German concept of an aircraft named Focke-Wulf Triebflüegel

The Future That Never Came

Cafe “Kosmos” in Minsk, Belarus, 1985

L’Impératrice – Odyssée cover

Space Rangers EVA Suit.

Syd Mead’s amazing artwork, including Blade Runner and a future tranportation design

Retro Roomba

Destination Moon (1950)