1937’s exploding Hindenburg Zeppelin

Arabic Machines: Early Schematics
Water powered systems, pulleys and gearing mechanisms, images from an arabic manuscript, datable from the…
Vintage synths catalogues and brochures
When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for…
Duck and Cover, Nuclear War Awareness campaign
In 1951, shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing, the US Federal government's Civil…
Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)
Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive…
Bernhard Leitner's Soundcube, 1969
Many years before the Cylindre Sonore, (see previous post), in 1969, Leitner began his research…