From the engineers at Honeywell in 1957 comes this prediction that, by A.D. 2000, we will have machines under our dining room floors that suck away dirty dishes, clean them, and then stack them on the shelves. If you have any sense of what is possible in the physical world, this cutaway may offend you.… Continue reading Automatic Dishwasher and Stacker Cutaway, 1957
Category: Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections
Cutaway and cross-section drawings of vehicles, weapons, submarines, airplanes, buildings, and more.
Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I mean by this is the chasm between what was promised and what we’ve got: the old “Where’s my jetpack?” meme. Or, “I wanted cars in tubes but all I’ve got is Twitter.” Yes,… Continue reading Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened
The plan made a lot of sense. If you were going to have a freeway running right through San Francisco’s Panhandle, which itself connects to the eastern end of Golden Gate Park, why not partially cap it off? Edmund G. Burger, principal at Burger & Coplans, wasn’t the bad guy here, not by any stretch… Continue reading Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened
Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway, 1950
Fantastic cutaway of New York’s Radio City Music Hall stage in 1950, showing the 57 foot pistons that operate the three stage elevators. This allowed the Rockettes to perform on three different levels. Source: Popular Mechanics, April 1950
Fantastic Department Store Cutaway, 1950s
Yet another mind-blowing cutaway from master illustrator Frank Soltesz. Few people realize that half of a department store is devoted to areas they never see. Behind the familiar counter and displays are large areas used for stockrooms and other services that supply the selling floors out front. there is a fur vault, complete bake shop,… Continue reading Fantastic Department Store Cutaway, 1950s