Old High Tech

Words 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.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Two More Early Vacuum Cleaners

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Also from early issues of POPULAR ELECTRICITY : 1. The "Positive," from the Electric Cleaner Company of Chicago, is another blac...

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Clean Your House by Vacuum: 1909

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Here we have an ad for the National portable vacuum cleaning machine, as published in the July, 1909 issue of POPULAR ELECTRICITY. Looks mor...

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Future of Electricity, As Seen in 1907

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The July, 1907 issue of THE WORLD'S WORK carried an article entitled "The Age of Electric Servants," by Arthur W. Page. Here ...

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Radio When It Sizzled

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Nowadays 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...

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Old Low Tech

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From the Library of Congress Flickr stream "1930's-40's in Color" is this picture of a unique corn harvesting technique an...

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magscanner: I'm an engineer and genealogist and collector and publisher. Somehow I managed to spend twenty years in print graphics and computers, after an earlier career designing space communications hardware and measurement instrumentation. Every so often I get interested in something, and it always seems to end up as a website or a blog. This is one of them.

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