Electric airships, submarines, and other futuristic vessels were the main attractions on the covers of a pulp novel series called Frank Reade Weekly Magazine: Containing Stories of Adventures on Land, Sea & in the Air.
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12 Fantastic Scifi Vehicles from a Century Ago
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The Best Operations Security Propaganda Posters From World War II
“Loose tweets destroy fleets.” That’s the slogan of the United States Air Force’s latest operations security (OPSEC) campaign, and if the phrase sounds familiar, don’t be surprised. We collected 50 propaganda posters from World War II that show an age when keeping military secrets was a matter of life or death.
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16 Scary Photos of California's Wildfires
The devastating result of several years of drought and a recent heatwave, California’s fastest-burning wildfires in decades have destroyed over a hundred homes and forced thousands of residents to flee over the weekend.
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Bangkok's Homeless Are Turning These Decommissioned Airplanes Into Makeshift Homes
Somewhere in the outskirts of the Thai capital, unused airplanes stored in a private field have become homes for three poor families. This is the darker side of the most populous city in Thailand.
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The First Spacewalker Created The Best Soviet Cosmic Landscapes
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov was the first man who walked in space. It’s a lesser-known fact that he became an accomplished aerospace artist as well, just like his US colleague Alan Bean.
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Fantastic Software Glitch Art Is Better Than the Real World
The Rescued Film Project has a mission: It rescues long-forgotten photographs hiding on many decades of old undeveloped film rolls. But the following seven images have became outstanding accidental digital artwork.
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The Fourth Man To Walk On the Moon Also Paints Beautiful Space Art
Since you consume the internet excessively, you’ve probably at some point seen the image above, maybe with the added text: MY NOSE ITCHES. This is a very funny meme, well done internet.
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The Beautiful DiY Rebar Art That Still Decorates Ex-Socialist Buildings
If you happen to be wandering the countryside walking the streets of ex-socialist towns and villages in Central or Eastern Europe, you may notice a similar decor on houses built in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. What you’re witnessing is DiY rebar art in its finest form.
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This Artist's Cheerful Renderings of Space Exploration Look Like Stills From The Martian
As eager plans for revisiting the Moon and colonizing Mars fill the everyday news, Patrick Rawlings’ scientifically and technically accurate paintings are more appropriate than ever. The following images from our ongoing aerospace artist series showcase one of the most optimistic, colorful body of space art ever created.
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Newly Declassified Photos Show The Crewed USAF Spy Spacecraft That Almost Was
On October 22, 2015 the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) declassified and released 282 rarely or never before seen images and 825 confidential records (a total of 20,681 pages) about the so called Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), the project which would have sent American astronauts to orbit over the Soviet Union in order to take better photos than the best system at the time.
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Old Cigarette Card Prophecies of Future Were Sometimes Surprisingly Accurate
Giant human brain for research purposes? Nope, nope. Nuclear fuel for ships? Yes, yes! Aerodromes in the middle of big cities? Sadly no. Will man travel in space? Absolutely! Hidden away in a sub collection, these old cigarette cards from the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library were sometimes eerily prescient when it came to predicting future.
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Photo Essay: 13 Classic Handheld Game Portraits
Handheld electronic games were the big hit at the beginning of the 1980s, when every kid wanted a small portable plastic device for playing video games wherever and whenever he or she wanted. Hundreds of games, created by dozens of manufacturers, swarmed the toy stores, showcasing unique colours, shapes, artworks, displays and designs. And all are the subjects of collectors’ dreams nowadays.
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The Only Thing NASA Is Better At Than Space Exploration: Making Up Acronyms
The sounding rocket you can see above will be launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the 4th of December, and according to NASA it “will be MUSIC to the ears of aspiring and early career engineers testing new space technology on a suborbital vehicle.” That’s because the name of the payload stands for Multiple User Suborbital Instrument Carrier (MUSIC).
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14 Exquisite Clandestine Cameras From The Golden Age of Espionage
The upcoming rare cameras auctions at Bonhams will feature rare photography equipment and accessories crafted by iconic manufacturers (Hasselblad, Leica, Nikon, Rolleiflex just to name a few). But for those who are fond of the history of spying, the real stars of the event on December 3 in Hong Kong) will be these spy-worthy clandestine cameras.
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A Brief Pictorial Account of What Children Got for Christmas Decades Ago
Christmas is the most anticipated festive season for children in our culture, and it is easy to find out why: presents. Finding long-desired toys under the dressed-up Christmas tree is one of the best moments of the year, and this was the case dozens or even a hundred years ago, too. Here are some nostalgic photos of those long gone moments of joy.
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27 Stylish Airliner Liveries From The Past
There was a time when passenger airplanes wore more sophisticated outfits than they do these days.
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14 Gorgeous Menus From the Golden Age of Dining Cars
There was a time when traveling by trains meant passengers could sit down for full-service meals in dining cars just like in high-end restaurants. Everything was fancy, even the menus. The following selection of old menu covers does a brilliant job of showcasing the golden era of streamlined locomotives (watch out for the legendary Aerotrain!) and Charcoal Broiled Select Sirloin Steaks.
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100 Years of Awesome Aviation Week Covers
This year Aviation Week & Space Technology celebrates its 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, the weekly magazine is giving us a fantastic gift: the 100-year digital archive of their 4,500 issues for free.
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These 100-Year-Old Postcards From Japan Are Like Perfect Frames From a Lost Miyazaki Anime
It’s easy to fall for stereotypes when you’re thinking about Imperial Japan, especially when the Internet offers plenty of dreamy, romanticized, hand colored photos of geishas, samurais, craftsmen, and peasants, all wearing traditional clothes and posing in medieval scenes. This set of color postcards, all issued in the first decades of the 20th century, show a different pre-war Japan.
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30 Hundred-Year-Old Sheet Music Covers Celebrating the Joy and Thrill of Flight
Yes, music takes you places, and this was true 100 years ago too, when sheet music was the most widespread form of distributing popular music. And in the age of the Wright brothers, when powered flight started to gain ground, aviation became a significant theme in popular music. The following collection proves this very well.
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