22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago

blueyezblkdragon
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Man those pictures bring back memories of the fallout games...
Now I want to play them again.

You need to get re-acquainted with New Vegas, the only hint for Fallout 4 has been "The Legion were fun weren't they?"

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this is why you would need a medieval axe underwater....duh, giant squid!





love these pictures though. they definitely remind me of some old school sci-fi comics. good stuff

reply to post by Dr UAE


too small, looks more like a kindle. lol

That octopus sex though, amirite Slayer?

The one I thought was actually pretty cool was the rocket that would launch into the upper atmosphere, so people could skydive down -- since it was the most inherently ludicrous, yet we still managed to achieve it.

Humans. Can do anything.

The Picard twins were famous as high altitude (baloonist) and deep sea explorers.
The spherical capsule is a high altitude baloon gondola, similar to one launched from the Stratobowl in South Dakota, U. S. A. in the 1930's. The capsule was made of DOW magnesium alloy.

The man looking through a sheet of something at the sky is looking at a solar eclipse through a welder's filter. Today we prefer to view solar eclipses by pinhole projection.

Look up Lenin's Rolls-Royce half-track snowmobile limosine.

reply to post by Dr UAE


The text is about observing a solar eclipse in California. He is holding up an optical filter. Looks like an event in 1923, in particular September 10, 1923. The band of totality passed over southern California and the observatories there, the point of greatest eclipse was close by.

September 10, 1923 eclipse


Paraphrased something like "The astronomers in California observing the last total solar eclipse are not content merely with their monstrous and precise instruments of modern science, but also went up in aircraft to photograph and film the phenomenon"

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HAHA! There is another guy holding something up like that in the bottom left corner, too!

CallmeRaskolnikov
reply to post by Dr UAE

 

too small, looks more like a kindle. lol

That's what I was going to say.

GezinhoKiko
reply to post by SLAYER69

 

I love this one, its my favourite

A medieval axe?
I cant think why he would need one 80 meters underwater!
But its good fun wondering.

Oil workers still use deep sea diving suits or "atmospheric diving suits". They'd do things like repair broken pipes, valves, cables. Using an axe might be necessary to cut through sea-weed, drift netting or anything else. So those vintage pictures aren't far off the mark:

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This one is even stranger. It looks like the space-suit of some kind of multi-eyed alien. The combination of
lighting and detail are something that would win the monthly award for a 3D VFX magazine.

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A torpedo that can leap out of the water and knock a specific person overboard? Why don't we have these?

reply to post by SLAYER69


That tram with the fan in front...I want one.

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I know, not the same thing, nor is it a tram...



Snow Removal Train

This is the giant snow blower train car that was used on the White Pass and Yukon Railway.

I really appreciate these type of post thanks for sharing mate!

I got shed loads of pictures of Washington being build.. and the statue of liberty.

Ah you can actually download the whole journals but there in french..... ofc :-(

would love to read these, do we have an archive of stuff like this in the UK??

cheers
Jay

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Ahaa this is different! Fantastic post man! Snf

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did you just find that picture with google? it really looks like that picture was taken in alaska and im curious if it was. looks like a town i visited that had a "yukon mountain pass" train ride which was pretty awesome..

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This could be the inspiration for that one.

What a wonderful thread here. Things from the past need to be preserved and noone knows this better than a guy named Harlan Ellision.
Here is his very outspoken on this whole genre.

originally posted by: OatDelphi
reply to post by SLAYER69

 

That's just amazing...

Air craft carriers, snowmobiles, investigative searches underwater, anti-aircraft weaponry, amphibious vehicles, rockets/missles...

"How close did they get?"

I would say pretty darn close.

The one pic of the guy coming out of the metal ball in the snowy mountains, I can't help but wonder if that is a drawing of a return from space. Sure reminds me a lot of an Apollo capsule.

What it Reminds me is The Soviet Capsule's that just look like what it showed in the pictures The Soviets and China's Still have Sphere that return to earth from Space to this Day.