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Vintage fax machines

Vintage fax machines: Document transmission technology conquering all in its path (1989)

25 things most people under 25 have never seen in real life

25 things most people under 25 have never seen in real life (and probably can’t name)

Coca cola drink with cocaine -1901

Cocaine-laced Coca-Cola introduced (1886)

Autistic boy looking at school through a fence

What did people think of autism in the 1960s? Here’s a look back at some of the attempts to understand

Retro futuristic butler's pantry seen from 1906

Predictions from 1906 about what life & technology would be like in the future year 2006

Science and Invention magazine 1923 - Cars from 1973-001

See how people 100 years ago imagined cars would look in the future (and how wrong they were)

LIFE Feb 17, 1958 Telephones

How to use a vintage rotary dial telephone: Top tips for callers from 1957

1963 Pretty mother with her toddler son - autism

Mom: Autism is not your fault, and other good advice from 1963

Swatch The new wave of watches on wrists in the 1980s

Swatch: The new wave of watches on wrists in the 1980s

IBM Selectric typewriter 1965

Vintage IBM electric typewriters from the ’60s, including the Selectric with swappable round print heads

The future Your own personal flying cars, powered by electricity

The future: Your own personal flying cars, powered by electricity (’50s & ’60s)

Live Jetsons-style in the home of tomorrow! Ideas for retro-futuristic space-age inventions (1958-1961)

Jell-O Salad Gelatin Would you eat jello in celery mixed vegetable flavors (1964)

Jell-O Salad Gelatin: Would you eat jello in celery & mixed vegetable flavors? (1964)

Orange and green vintage Space Fidgit - Fidget toys

Space Fidgit – the cosmic color-changing disc toy from the ’70s and ’80s

Amerigo Vespucci - Martin Waldseemüller map in color

How did America get its name? Find out, plus see some of the oldest maps of the United States

How cats helped create the first iron lung machines for polio victims (1938)

Nikola Tesla electricity

Inventor Nikola Tesla: The legendary genius explained why science would win the next war (1916)

Wall-mounted refrigerator GE 1956

Forget kitchen cabinets – install a wall-mounted refrigerator! (Yes – this was really a thing in the ’50s)

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison says that people work too hard and worry too much (1913)

Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

Everyone’s favorite instant pets: The (not so) amazing live Sea-Monkeys

Nikola Tesla on an iPad - Click Americana

100 years ago, did Nikola Tesla predict the iPad, Skype, mobile phones & more? (1915)

Thomas Alva Edison holding an incandescent lightbulb c1911

Thomas Edison says electricity will cure everything (1914)

Hula Hoop revival 1972 woman with toy

The ’50s Hula Hoop fad gets millions twirling and whirling (1958)

Marie Curie - Madame Curie - Scientist

Marie Curie tells how she discovered radium (1921)

Observation car on a deluxe overland limited train2

Inside vintage train cars: See a Deluxe Overland Limited Train (1910s)

Meet Josephine Garis Cochrane, inventor of the dishwasher (1892)

Michael Landon for Kodak cameras - 1977

Michael Landon for Kodak cameras (1977)

Silly Putty Wonder toy of the 20th century (1951)

Silly Putty: Wonder toy of the 20th century (1951)

Pinball wizards: Vintage pinball machines of the 1940s

How to care for cassette tapes - Tech tips from 1975

Now hear this! Top 10 audio cassette tape tips from the ’70s

Watson and Crick discover and model the structure of DNA (1953)

Space age: Amazing retro futuristic homes of the ’60s

The new contact lenses Eyeball spectacles (1931)

The eye-opening invention of contact lenses: The launch of ‘eyeball spectacles’ (1931)

Travel by conveyor belt Why not! Futuristic ideas from the 1900s for moving sidewalk-style city transportation

Travel by conveyor belt? Why not! Futuristic ideas from the 1900s for moving sidewalk-style city transportation

In the ’70s, it wasn’t a party until someone started spraying Silly String

Digital watches for everyone The hot gift-giving trend of the late '70s

Digital watches: The hottest gift-giving trend of the late ’70s & early ’80s

Sister and brother playing with dollhouse

How autism was described in the 1970s: Easy to define, hard to pinpoint

Tesla holding a phosphor-coated wireless light bulb

Nikola Tesla’s plan to give free electricity to everyone (1896)

blue princess telephone 1962

Spring’s a-ringin’ with convenient new phones in colorful tones! (1962)

1853 Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine

Who invented the sewing machine? (1909)

How safe are skyscrapers like the Empire State Building? (1931)

The future of the computer age (1967)

Introducing the microwave oven: Your new kitchen appliance! (1971-1975)

Sony Walkman with cassette

Music to your ears: Walkmans & other portable cassette players (1981)

Radioactivity: It’s been in the family for generations (1972)

Are we entering the atomic age? (1940)

Music! Comedy! The wonder of Edison’s new phonograph player

Play time! Popular toys from 1948

Radior - Radium-infused vanishing cream plus face powder

Bad idea department: Radium face cream & face powder (1919)

The Consolidated B-36: The world’s largest bomber (1951)

Typewriters and the decline and fall of handwriting (1922)

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - The Royal Blue

New super-locomotive train capable of 100 MPH (1937)

Fotomat photo drive-in 1972

Fotomat drive-in develops friends overnight (1972)

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 100 years later (1905)

Her hat designs are far out! Making headgear for astronauts (1965)

The telephone girls: A look at switchboard operators at work (1899)

New drug found in common soil (1948)

Computer sports challenge players (1978)

Television unveiled: TV finally a reality (1930)

Why grow old Plastic surgery in the 1920s

Why grow old? Plastic surgery in the 1920s

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