Internet Oddities and Eccentricity at Bunch of Nerds » Machine http://bunchofnerds.com A blog for nerds from nerds Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:41:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Victorian Postcards From 1900 About the Year 2000 http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/11/interesting/victorian-postcards-from-1900-about-the-year-2000/ http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/11/interesting/victorian-postcards-from-1900-about-the-year-2000/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:43:33 +0000 seth http://bunchofnerds.com/?p=1629 These postcards, handed out by a German chocolate company at the turn of the century, attempted to predict what life might have been like in the year 2000 based on the developing technology of those days. I think my favorite is either the city with a ceiling or the weather machine… But wouldn’t they have been mutually exclusive?

X-Ray Surveillance Machine
x-ray_police

Weather Machine
weather_machine

Aqua Train
water_train

Walking on Water
walk_on_water

Broadcasting Sound & Images
the_theater

Underwater Boat / Submarine
submarine

Escalator / Moving Walkway
moving_walkways

Movable City Blocks
moving_buildings

Flying Contraptions
flying_contraption

City w/ Ceiling
city_ceiling

Hot Air Family Zeppelin, pre-Hindenburg
balloon_travel

Arctic Vacation Fly-By
arctic_vacation

Via The Card Mine

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