The future looked very promising for those in the early 90s. Today we are making great strides, like proving the Earth is indeed round.
1930 Stream Line KJ Henderson motorcycle
Abandoned futuristic village in Taiwan
‘Enjoy Top News and Sports Events as You Dine’, Seagram’s Beyond Tomorrow ad series, 1946
Robot police circa 1924
Propeller powered ski troops, Popular Science Magazine, November 1939
Post-war suburban home concept, Timken Silent Automatic Oil Heating advertisement, 1943
Future Sky Fighter (1939)
The Atomic Coffee Machine
Diagnosis By Radio (1925)
Tomorrow’s mobile home, 1934
1949: Tomorrow-Cycle, the bicycle of the future
Glasses with radio from a Soviet magazine, 1972
Here Comes the Flying Bus (1946)
1950s ‘Space Station’ Morse Code Signalling Set
The GM Bison 1964 concept truck for the 70’s
George Bennie railplane system 1930
‘Please connect me with Flight 625’, General Electric, 1942
Space Man and Space Girl from Tomorrowland (1967)
Science and Mechanics magazine cover from 1961
The Horten Ho 229 V3, an unfinished Nazi prototype all-wing jet aircraft
American Airlines new coach lounge (circa 1970s)
Home shopping in the 1940s.
Fashions of 1950, as predicted on the cover of Life Magazine in 1914
It never made it to the production line, although it’s quite stunning – 1951 Studebaker Manta Ray concept
A woman at work in a chair at the Business Efficiency Exhibition, 1971