tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60821446117995797152024-02-07T04:46:45.336-08:00Old High TechWords and pictures about the weird and wonderful technology that changed our lives in the past. Just because it isn't Web 3.14 doesn't mean that it wasn't neat, fabulous, and the focus of a million technogeek fankids.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-44993603207468770402013-01-29T14:59:00.000-08:002013-01-29T15:07:46.853-08:00Two More Early Vacuum CleanersAlso from early issues of <a href="http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/technical/popularelectricity/" target="_blank">POPULAR ELECTRICITY</a>:<br />
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1. The "Positive," from the Electric Cleaner Company of Chicago, is another black box on wheels, looking like something out of a science fiction novel. Published in the June, 1909 issue. Click big.<br />
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Something that looks a little bit more like we would expect today, the Duntley could be picked up and carried by your maid. From the May, 1909 issue.</div>
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The history of product design is the subject for someone else's blog, but you can't avoid thinking about it. Pretty soon the maid would give way as chief domestic tool user to the homeowner herself, a victim of economic necessity and a whole new customer demographic. </div>
<br />magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-87389127229206696592013-01-27T19:27:00.001-08:002013-01-29T15:07:05.036-08:00Clean Your House by Vacuum: 1909Here we have an ad for the National portable vacuum cleaning machine, as published in the July, 1909 issue of POPULAR ELECTRICITY. Looks more like industrial equipment than a home cleaning device, but perhaps that was its designer's intent. Your maid should be happy to use it; it will make her job simpler, and she can spend more time making other things just exactly perfect. Click to enlarge.<br />
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First published in 1908, POPULAR ELECTRICITY appealed to early adopters, experimenters, businessmen and engineers, and all interested in the latest changes occurring in the world around us. Here's <a href="http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/technical/popularelectricity/" target="_blank">a gallery of covers</a>, to give you some idea of the kinds of things the publishers thought of interest to their readers. <br />
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I'll have some more vacuum cleaner ads from this era shortly; they are interesting to compare to each other, to try to discern just who the manufacturers were aiming the products at, and which would be the forerunners of today's products.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-33819075778082825342012-07-21T14:45:00.000-07:002012-07-21T14:45:18.522-07:00The Future of Electricity, As Seen in 1907The July, 1907 issue of <a href="http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/newscurrentevents/worldswork/">THE WORLD'S WORK</a> carried an article entitled "The Age of Electric Servants," by Arthur W. Page. Here are the six pages of the article; click on an image to view a larger copy that you can read. Send a note if you'd like to see a higher-yet resolution version of the pages.<br />
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THE WORLD'S WORK was a serious monthly magazine aimed at business and government leaders, with meaty articles about new trends, business methods, improved forms of government, and the like. Walter Hines Page was the founding editor of the magazine; this article's author took over as editor in the due course of time. I picked up twenty or thirty bound volumes of this magazine when the Palo Alto Public Library deaccessioned them a couple of years ago, and have been slowly working my way through them looking for articles of interest for the various blogs and websites.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-15489133304491404822012-05-15T13:37:00.000-07:002012-05-15T13:37:29.906-07:00Radio When It SizzledNowadays we generate radio signals as continuous waves, but in the beginning it was generated by a spark, and if you were lucky it was tuned and filtered. You know about electrical sparks; they generate radio-frequency interference (RFI), with the static from the electrical discharge of lightning as the most widely known case.<br />
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But even as late as 1922, you could build a spark-gap station from components you could buy from Sears, Roebuck (click on the image to make it big--as big as your screen if you want):<br />
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This is a page from the 1922 catalog of Electrical Goods and Radio Apparatus, a specialized sixty-four page publication that featured electrical appliances, and the parts and equipment you would use to build a receiver or your own amateur radio station. These rotary spark gaps are just about the technological peak of spark design; pretty soon it was all over for spark, and the soothing tones of continuous-wave signals blanketed the bands.<br />
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Steve Davis found a copy of this catalog, and scanned it; I cleaned up all of the images (64 large pages; I must have been out of my mind) and published it as an e-book. It's now on sale in ePub format (for any ebook reading device) and in Kindle format (for Amazon's hardware).<br />
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You can buy it on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roebuck-Electrical-Apparatus-Catalog-ebook/dp/B007UP59Y0">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sears-roebuck-1922-electrical-goods-and-radio-apparatus-catalog-sears-roebuck-and-co/1110627391?ean=2940014400756">Barnes and Noble</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Roebuck_and_Co_Sears_Sears_Roebuck_1922_Electrical?id=T0Kk_CYxhWAC&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImJvb2stVDBLa19DWXhoV0FDIl0.">Google Play</a>, and at the Apple iBooks store (search terms: Sears 1922 radio catalog). It's beautiful, if I say so myself, and it's $2.99.<br />
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Yes, it's cheaper than a latte.<br />
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There's a picture of the cover, and a little more about the fun and excitement of squeezing ten pounds of image data into a two-pound box, on the <a href="http://earlyradio.blogspot.com/2012/05/sears-roebucks-1922-catalog-of.html">Early Radio blog</a>. The big version of the image is exactly the image that's used in the book (along with sixty-three other images) so you can get an idea of just how much detail is being shown.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-6371323500449906852011-05-20T22:39:00.000-07:002011-05-20T22:41:10.391-07:00Old Low TechFrom the Library of Congress Flickr stream "1930's-40's in Color" is this picture of a unique corn harvesting technique and machine:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179141418/in/set-72157603671370361/">Harvesting new corn from the field of Jim Norris, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)</a><br />
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Photographed October 1940.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-84061198182246193552011-05-16T21:05:00.000-07:002011-05-16T21:07:02.831-07:00Live Steam at the Adelaide Show, 2010The Show at Adelaide: Restored farm and other powered equipment, running live. I was particularly fascinated by this small engine, and talked to the owner. He's not quite certain of its origin, but thinks it may have been used to run mine pumps. <br />
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Click to make BIG. More live steam, also trains and boats and planes, on <a href="http://www.mikeandkaren.org/gallery/main.php/v/2010mike/2010-09-20C/">my photo website</a> http://www.mikeandkaren.org/gallery/main.php/v/2010mike/2010-09-20C/.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-3404430825329761272008-12-04T13:27:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:28:54.433-08:00Healthy VibrationsA correspondent sent me this <a href="http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/ads/healthandmedicine/quackequipment/WhiteCrossElectricVibrator-1912A.jpg.html">1912 ad for the White Cross Electric Vibrator</a>, which will restore your youth and clarify your skin, and do all manner of other things. Away, boredom!<br /><br />The scan was high enough in resolution (and the printing adequate), so here is the actual image of the box -- <br /><br /><img src="http://www.mkpix.org/blogs/generalpictures/VibratorBox.jpg" width=455 height=451 alt="" border="0"><br /><br />a complete set with every fitting you would need.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-35596486209486660362007-11-28T15:57:00.001-08:002009-01-11T18:48:50.808-08:00Apparatus for X-Ray ExperimentsFrom the 1902 F. Gross experimenters' equipment catalog:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioAKKtKHZ_WvuuSYEaxxVJIja8tMe_JZ_NLXW2Uo6k6KGwvMPp742fj49MurP9UjIft7hgrocguAjuoD7UMVr1FN2kVk279vAqwYS5zQabhZ_xysOaBM-6vV18EHyMJ3nUmrHAOvnuXFY/s1600-h/FGrossElectricalCatalog1902k.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioAKKtKHZ_WvuuSYEaxxVJIja8tMe_JZ_NLXW2Uo6k6KGwvMPp742fj49MurP9UjIft7hgrocguAjuoD7UMVr1FN2kVk279vAqwYS5zQabhZ_xysOaBM-6vV18EHyMJ3nUmrHAOvnuXFY/s400/FGrossElectricalCatalog1902k.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138046139994995010" /></a><br /><br />You are getting warmer, warmer....<br />magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-43309676746101164522007-10-22T21:00:00.001-07:002008-11-13T02:13:56.848-08:00An Early Radio Transmitter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_G_Ok8iboD91oAdU4nJO3MjjIwd_y0aaIz3dJk5hIOFavvG0_H15pwKMBUL2FU3u4xKiAhJ4nBEMcZNNV4IVTcp8V_HpFe9LflhJGw9yHrOFOKmtWhp0jlVt8PTQ2zGPH8vtAUNLnibs/s1600-h/p122-RecentTypeOf2KVA-10000.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_G_Ok8iboD91oAdU4nJO3MjjIwd_y0aaIz3dJk5hIOFavvG0_H15pwKMBUL2FU3u4xKiAhJ4nBEMcZNNV4IVTcp8V_HpFe9LflhJGw9yHrOFOKmtWhp0jlVt8PTQ2zGPH8vtAUNLnibs/s400/p122-RecentTypeOf2KVA-10000.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124377340817830866" /></a><br /><br />From Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Radio Telephony" (Wireless Press, 1918). The Alexanderson Alternator was an alternative to the spark gap for transmitters. It had a rotating disk with many individual windings such that the edge of the disk could cut magnetic flux lines at a relatively high rate ... perhaps even 100 KHz! These were popular for a while, but eventually transmitting tubes replaced them for continuous signal generation at high power.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-37666389003117571592007-10-09T16:52:00.000-07:002008-11-13T02:13:56.975-08:00Early Bloggers Arranging for Publication<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPXfXC1mhi336tpRG_iYDb9Y0_3WVagkqCSVdfq3z40ewtg2VK43__KKFWYDCkTaayCQbOwt9R7W3P9EzIgJWLtrx1LLsKGsYVjcmd_14LXsmN9EnVud12UUAT7MD21tpNhtH45pDuyZo/s1600-h/1764-CompleteDictionary.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPXfXC1mhi336tpRG_iYDb9Y0_3WVagkqCSVdfq3z40ewtg2VK43__KKFWYDCkTaayCQbOwt9R7W3P9EzIgJWLtrx1LLsKGsYVjcmd_14LXsmN9EnVud12UUAT7MD21tpNhtH45pDuyZo/s400/1764-CompleteDictionary.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119490011632366530" /></a><br /><br /><br />Another eBay item, this time from eBay seller blancetnoir in category <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-1751-2978-71/1?AID=5463217&PID=1644582&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fart.listings.ebay.com%2FAntique-Pre-1900_Other_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ10170QQsocmdZListingItemList">Art > Prints > Antique (Pre-1900) > Other</a>.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-24621054089698102242007-09-17T09:52:00.000-07:002008-11-13T02:13:57.054-08:00A Circular Russian Ironclad (fl. 1876)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5TU5pdbFdmekhCIqQGr2pbYtU32IHAkPF7OOFujMnXXUQpvT7qAxMDNybklDPycGmFrMilcvWAIdAHJOtB5i2OyUptJIy-zAJVQnSFNGdAw0ZSUbKHkuwp2MpggwomukTWINVsIkzwg/s1600-h/Russia+CIRCULAR+IRONCLAD+NOVGOROD++wood+engraving+1876+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5TU5pdbFdmekhCIqQGr2pbYtU32IHAkPF7OOFujMnXXUQpvT7qAxMDNybklDPycGmFrMilcvWAIdAHJOtB5i2OyUptJIy-zAJVQnSFNGdAw0ZSUbKHkuwp2MpggwomukTWINVsIkzwg/s400/Russia+CIRCULAR+IRONCLAD+NOVGOROD++wood+engraving+1876+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111220875623713618" border="0" /></a><br /><br />From a German periodical of the 1870's, and found in the current listings of <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-1751-2978-71/1?AID=5463217&PID=1644582&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%2F_W0QQsassZmarderllQQfrppZ50QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQrdZ0">eBay seller marderll</a>. You'll note the similarity to the <span style="font-style:italic;">Monitor</span>, and unique Russian touches. The Cheesebox on a Raft is now a Cheesebox on a pie-plate.magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082144611799579715.post-91270784530365092362007-08-24T16:52:00.000-07:002007-08-24T16:55:37.928-07:00Old, Not Dumb<span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That could be me we're talking about. But it's not; it's about the way things were designed and engineered in the old days. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The old days could be four hundred years or four hundred weeks (or, the way things are changing in this singularity space, four hundred days).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'll see what I can find for you.</span><br /><br /><br /></span>magscannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com0