Radio Shack catalogs from 1939 to present via BBG. This website is dedicated to America’s technology store… RadioShack. For almost 65 years RadioShack has produced a catalog to rival no other electronics and technology company. Through the years, this catalog expanded to contain a mix of hi-fidelity stereos, amplifiers, radios, phonographs, speakers, televisions & antennas, […]
Dear Big 3, there is good news and bad news – the good news is, you’re getting a bail out – the bad news you can only make propellor cars from now on…
Interrobang Letterpress posted some lovely and illuminating photos of their letterpress printing process to the MAKE Flickr pool. I was trained as a printing and ran a shop for years (in the late ’70s). Trained in offset lithography, and ever-the-futurist, I turned my nose up at quaint tech like letterpress. Oh how times and aesthetics […]
What was new in 1955… a modded bike for taking the family around town.
OMG. I love these Photoshopped portraits of the original Enterprise crew as Victorians! Victorian / Steampunk Star Trek Wallpapers More: Steam-Wars LEGO contest R2-S2 (R2 Steam Too) – The steam powered R2-D2
I love this retro/deco/steampunk-looking desk fan designer/artist Clive Batkin made from a redundant computer cooling and some copper, brass, and wood. He was inspired by the look of the heat sink fins and the overall design of the original fan. He’s got some other really nice pieces on his site, including The Optimus desk lamp […]
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician… Nightingale created many novel graphics to present statistics that would persuade Queen Victoria of the need to improve sanitary conditions in military hospitals. The area of each region shows the number of soldiers who died of wounds, disease, or other causes, during each month of the Crimean War– When Florence […]
