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Retro futuristic butler's pantry seen from 1906

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

Boy on a Big Wheel

So long, tricycles – the Big Wheel’s here now (1969-1975)

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)

Old-school color-changing liquid pregnancy tests & ovulation predictors (1980s)

Old-school color-changing liquid pregnancy tests & ovulation predictors (1980s)

X-radium cooking utensils - Bad ideas - vintage ad from 1905

Anyone for radioactive food? You could get it with this X-radium cookware – a mind-blowingly bad product idea from 1905

Wall-mounted refrigerator GE 1956

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

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)

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

Vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders and players

Getting real with vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders

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

Tesla holding a phosphor-coated wireless light bulb

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

1853 Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine

Who invented the sewing machine? (1909)

The future of the computer age (1967)

Sony Walkman with cassette

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

Kiddie Koop: A baby crib that closes so mom can do chores (1950)

Television unveiled: TV finally a reality (1930)

Scripto erasable pens

A pen you can erase? Yes: The Scripto Erasable Pen (1984)

The Rubik’s Cube delights – and frustrates – America (1981)

How Thomas Edison shaped our world (1964)

Nikola Tesla - Colorado laboratory 1899

Tesla: What’s the future of electricity? (1912)

Old-fashioned games: Small ideas, big successes (1910)

The Telephone & How We Use It (from 1951)

The rotary-dial telephone and how we use it (1951)

Apple introduces the Macintosh personal computer (1984)

Edward Jenner - Smallpox vaccine 1790s

Jenner’s smallpox vaccination, 100 years on (1796-1896)

45-rpm single inserts Those old little record spindle adapters

Remember 45-rpm single inserts? Those old little record spindle adapters

Vintage vacuum cleaners from Hoover

Samuel P. Langley's large steam-powered model Aerodrome No. 5 making a successful flight, 1896.

Alexander Graham Bell: Flight is a fact (1896)

Benjamin Franklin with kite and key - electricity

Tesla on the fallacy of Franklin’s pointed lightning rod (1919)

Where the telephone was born (1875)

Launching soon: GPS satellite technology (1976)

The Shrinkage of the Planet, by Jack London (1900)

Tesla’s latest wonder: Wireless electricity (1898)

Weird doings at the Tesla plant (1903)

Mme Demorest’s Emporium of Fashions (1862)

Little change in the turntable since Edison (1963)

Shrinky Dinks inventor tells her story (1987)

The story of 7-Up (1939)

Pan Am adds DC-8 to their over-ocean jet fleet (1960)

Wilder makes artificial sunrise: Milks before daylight (1896)

Automobile accessories for the motorcar of 1913

The evolution of golf balls (1905)

New touch-tone dialing has missile-like speed (1965)

The cathode ray outdone: Radium discovered (1899)

Computer brain power of leading nations as of 1968

The many wonderful possibilities of ozone (1898)

Invention of the television: A triumph of the engineer (1927)

Electrolux refrigerators are almost magical – freezes with heat (1935)

Latest payphones: Airlight booths, walk-ups, drive-ups (1961)

New Zenith “Space Command” TV remote control (1957)

New RCA Victor 45 automatic record changer (1949)

How to lay train track faster (1896)

Putting a stop to bank hold-ups (1917)

The end of the telephone eavesdropper (1915)

New golf club may render caddy obsolete (1900)

Cooking with the new ‘electricity’ (1892)

The Wright Brothers: Aerial navigation (1904)

The new color photography (1908)

The straight facts about color TV (1950)

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