This is the thread where we post pictures of lovely retro gadgets and electrical goods.

http://wright20.com/auctions/16_wright/full/individual_lots/_images/560.jpg
Behold the Ice Gun
Activated by a spring-loaded plunger and trigger mechanism, the Ice Gun instantly crushes an ice cube, shooting ice spray through the hole in the bottom.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ottenb.areca.de/venice/camera.jpg

― captain gay, Monday, 7 June 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.officemuseum.com/1911_Burroughs_Typewriter_Adding_Machine_drawing_cb000205_OM.JPG

― captain gay, Monday, 7 June 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/rare_books/photo_exhibits/a1.20wcopy.jpg

― captain gay, Monday, 7 June 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/radiation/images/ShoeFlr.gif
fluorscope shoe fitter

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i'll get me one o' them iron lungs.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The adding-machine thingy is the one what made the Burroughs family fortune, I believe

― captain gay, Monday, 7 June 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House
http://www.wichitaphotos.org/graphics/wschm_R2dymax5-Dymaxion.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.temple-theatre.com/Magic%20Lantern%20projector.JPG

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://wright20.com/auctions/15_wright/full/individual_lots/_images/154.jpg

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I am truly astounded neither Elvis T. nor Stockholm C started this thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.windoweb.it/edpstory_new/eh1800_f6.jpeg

― lint (Jack), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

every single photo on this thread is k-rowr.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/zephyr/design/images/dymaxion.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.judygarland.net/automat2.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

its spun off into craziness!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

can we have some record players or lamps or something?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

more automats!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.theautomat.com/inside/merch/auto004.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.online.no/~bberntz/raymond/cadillac/mincaddy/pics/autronic.jpg

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://antikma.de/bild/olivetti_rechts.jpg

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.globeaudiomkt.com/quad_classic/images/quad_sp_large.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://drake.nl/computermuseum/sinclair/128k.jpg

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh that Olivetti typewriter is sex on lots of tiny sticks.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:UJEsB6EWK7IJ:www.sixdifferentways.com/images/ball%2520chairs/retromodernkera3.gif

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://kelty.rice.edu/375/images/dracula/switchboard.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.filmint.nu/bilder/netonly/artikelbilder/bubley/figure-5-tubes.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.officemuseum.com/Lamson_pneumatic_tube_system_NMAH_OM.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v6n3/theremin.gif

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The kid in front of the dymaxion house looks like some kinda six-legged spider-dog centaur!

― captain gay, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/2005_03/top100gadgets.html

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

jed do you own one of those braun portable rkd players?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

not sure if this link will work
Data Recorder

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

nope

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i heart this thread. i would heart it more if the images worked.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://web.telia.com/~u31614134/Minabilar/Ghia58f.JPG

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Way above a "gadget" obv, but cool thing I had no idea about:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Cybersyn_control_room.jpg

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973 (during the government of president Salvador Allende). It was essentially a network of telex machines that linked factories with a single computer center in Santiago, which controlled them using principles of cybernetics.

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

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