1935 experimental ‘streamlined’ tube train, between South Ealing and Acton Town on the Piccadilly line.
Komazawa Olympic Park Control Tower in Tokyo – 1964. Architect Yoshinobu Ashihara. Ultraman lives here.
The Grand Tour is the first of Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Vision of the Future posters an invites to a space-touristic tour to some objects in our stellar system as well as to exoplanets.
Bersey Electric Cab aka The Hummingbird, an EV taxi cab from 1897! Lasting only 2 years due to the high cost of upkeep we could have had the EV boom more than a century ago!
Sadly this car was never going to be made, it was just an advert for a bank…but damn it’s so cool!!!!
A giant drill well to the earth’s mantle from Nat Schachner’s ‘Pacifica’ from Astounding Stories July 1936. Artist uncredited
An abandoned rocketship landing tower in R. DeWitt Miller’s ‘The Virus’ from Astounding Stories July 1936. Art by Flatos (whose full name I haven’t been able to find anywhere)
AGAT, 1983 first Soviet popular 8-bit computer that used the same MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor as Apple II and BBC Micros.
Just stumbled upon this beautiful retro futuristic website poolsuite.net Their whole online presence screams the 80s and it’s brilliant!
A Combine (no not that one) starship coming into port in Warner van Lorne’s ‘Australano’ from Astounding Stories July 1936. Art by Elliott Dold. Caption unrelated
Second Generation Flyback Booster for the Space Shuttle, a futuristic concept studied by NASA in 2000.
One Last Omnibot Post (Until I’ve Got Something Else Cool to Show You Folks) – I think It Threatened Us at the End
StarTram Generation 2 launching a spacecraft, a megastructure with an elevated launch tube 22 kilometers above sea level.
A vision of a 1975 car appeared in the June 1940 issue of Popular Science, predicting autonomous vehicles nearly 80 years before they became reality. The idea of atomic-powered cars was less accurate, but drawing power from a road-based grid is now being explored.
Ancient astronauts rocket over Nibiru. Oil painting by me. This shows what rockets could look like on a planet with greater gravity than on Earth.
Artist concept of the Rockwell X-30 aerospace plane flying through Earth’s atmosphere on its way to low-Earth orbit (1990)
