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Historic Technology Equipment

A collection of vintage technological equipment and panels, including control cabinets and computer systems, showcasing a retro aesthetic in monochrome and muted tones.

SANDIA COMPUTER ROOM 1983 computer room.
SANDIA COMPUTER ROOM 1983 computer room.
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An electrical engineer works in the Aeronautical Systems Division. Base: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base State: Ohio (OH) Country: United States Of America (USA)layout of monitoring systemsKennedy Space Center Firing room during launch of Space Shuttle Discovery Hubble Space Telescope deployment Mission STS-31 (The Shuttle can be seen through window) (ref KSC-90PC-626)Coordinate väljarstations, Tele 1944.Vintage Photograph. Vintage computer with electric glow representing retro technology innovation.The electrical system trainer was developed and built by the Boeing Company for maintenance training on the AC and DC power systems of the E-3A Sentry aircraft. The trainer includes the majority of system components and an animated schematic of the power distribution system which responds to switch positions on the operator`s panel. Base: Tinker Air Force Base State: Oklahoma (OK) Country: United States Of America (USA)Photograph showing the P.A.X 50-line Extensible switchboard wired throughout in Geon PVS sheathed cable, chosen because of it's excellent electrical properties and the wide range of colours in which Geon PVC sheathing may be made - a property which helps rapid identification of any particular circuit.Very old computers with green text on screenA850563 U12N MISTY RAIN ALCOVE BUTTON-UP JOHN ALLEN (Project Engineer) MAR 27 85 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/27/1985 ALCOVE 17-103; ALCOVE BUTTON-UP; BUTTON UP; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); FINAL BUTTON-UP; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; MISTY RAIN; MISTY RAIN TEST; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; MISTY RAIN-ALCOVE BUTTON-UP historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.Through the large window panes of Firing Room 1, KSC launch team members reap the rewards of their work with a glimpse of the space shuttle Discovery soaring into the sky. Discovery was launched for the tenth time at 8:34 a.m. EDT on April 24 beginning the five-day STS-31 mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. A ray of morning sunlight highlights the red and white stripes of Old Glory hanging high in the Firing Room. Launch team members overcame a last minute challenge in the STS-31 countdown when software detected a main propulsion system valve was out of position. The situation was quickly corrected and verified by the team from consoles in the Firing Room and the countdown was returned in a matter of minutes.A view of the Computer Aided Tactical Information System equipment at CONTEL Corporation. Base: Los Angeles State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)Mainframes in a computer labA connecting specialist checks the correct operation of a telex device.Solartron Electronic Group: "Two Aircraft Ready To Fight" - The two small cabinets in the foreground are the control panels of two aircraft. Up to two dozen of these aircraft may be connected to the computer in the background, thus making up a complete tactical exercise. Each aircraft unit acts completely independently, flies its own track, and does exactly what the pilot orders it to do within the pre-set limitations of speed and turn dictated by the specifications for the particular type of aircraft being "flown". December 20, 1955.Used TVMONITORES DE CONTROL EN UNA UNIDAD MOVIL DE TELEVISION.Second LT. Barbara L. Pasierb works in the electromagnetic pulse software section of the Air Force Technical Applications center. Base: Patrick Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)Used Computer PartsPolish engineer Eugeniusz Ciszak visiting Skogstorp.Close-up of an electronic data processor, 1972Data Systems Technician 3rd Class Tim Russell operates a sophisticated computer aboard the destroyer USS JOHN HANCOCK (DD-981). Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Launch Control Center, officials monitor the Mode VII” emergency landing simulation being conducted at Kennedy Space Center and managed and directed from the LCC. From left are Dr. Luis Moreno and Dr. David Reed, with Bionetics Life Sciences, and Dr. Philip Scarpa, with the KSC Safety, Occupational Health and Environment Division. The purpose of the Mode VII is to exercise emergency preparedness personnel, equipment and facilities in rescuing astronauts from a downed orbiter and providing immediate medical attention. This simulation presents an orbiter that has crashed short of the Shuttle Landing Facility in a wooded area 2-1/2 miles south of Runway 33. Emergency crews are responding to the volunteer astronauts” who are simulating various injuries inside the crew compartment mock-up. Rescuers must remove the crew, provide triage and transport to hospitals those who need further treatment. Local hospitals are participating in the exercise.8-inch floppy disk and 1977 EditWriter 7500, digital typesetter, GSI C A T phototypesetter by Compugraphic CorporationChristine Darden in computer roomWire drainage connection.This photograph was taken during the Astro-1 mission (STS-35) showing activities at NASA's new Payload Operations Control Center (POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The POCC was the air/ground communication charnel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Teams of controllers and researchers directed on-orbit science operations, sent commands to the spacecraft, received data from experiments aboard the Space Shuttle, adjusted mission schedules to take advantage of unexpected science opportunities or unexpected results, and worked with crewmembers to resolve problems with their experiments.layout of monitoring systemsHigh-life. Automatic station with 500 selector.Anefo photo collection. NoveltyShow in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Processor for word processing. September 1, 1983. Utrecht (province), Utrecht (city)Pioneer Mission Control Center with personnel monitoring spacecraft (PMOC) includes Dr Richard FimmelUnivac computer, 1960Technician in a computer room, data centerThe Nerve Centre For Coronation T.V. The scene in the temporary central main control room with monitor screens, which will record from the various points where television cameras are in operation, The centre screen in the top row (un-named) is for checking the Quality of picture being received by viewers. A temporary main central control for television has been set up in Broadcasting House to deal with the televising of the Coronation. May 28, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).Heat pump instrument board in Eskilstuna Sport hall.48-INCH SCHMIDT CAMERA.A Milva in the telephone exchange in the Bunker at the Headquarters General Staff in the Princess Julianakanne, The Hague.Transistor tester. Documentation of the construction of the mathematics machine Beam on Drottninggatan in Stockholm. Doubtful about the image concerns the bitter. The environment is not recognized.Mr. Gary French, a technician with the US Army Visual Information Center, loads a compact disk into his computer, while working at his multimedia workstation, inside the Electronic Imaging Graphic Service Divison. Base: Pentagon State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)Old name call station. Castle Skack 8, Stockholm. Åskledarestrips.Air Traffic Controllers ( ATC ) working at an FAA facility. Monitors overhead show aircraft traffic.Computer ProgrammersCadd Application ProgramsChalk River Nuclear LaboratoryOntario, CanadaNASA Ames Computer Division, Smith (Weidlich). Candid: Marcia Smith Operating the IBM #740 Computer, Room #119-A, Building N-233.S75-28519 (15 July 1975) --- An overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, Johnson Space Center, on the first day of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in Earth orbit. This photograph was taken shortly before the American ASTP launch from the Kennedy Space Center. The television monitor in the center background shows the ASTP Apollo-Saturn 1B space vehicle on Pad B at KSC s Launch Complex 39. The American ASTP liftoff followed the Soviet ASTP launch of the Soyuz space vehicle from Baikonur, Kazakhstan by seven and one-half hours.SILHOUETTED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER IN CONTROL TOWER ON HAND HELD RADIOAnefo photo collection. Mr Krebbers from Deventer invented a device to receive the second German network. October 9, 1962. Deventer51A-90016 (8 Nov 1984) --- J. E. Conner, on duty at the integrated communcations officer console in the second floor Flight Control Room (FCR) of the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Mission Control Center (MCC), watches engine ignition of Discovery on a nearby TV monitor. Moments later, the Houston FCR took over control of the scheduled eight day mission 51-A.FAST CTAS system operation trials at Dallas/Ft Worth, Tx (DFW TRACON ATC Automation Tool)Tilted attendance recorder (time punch clock) showing five minutes to twelve o'clock, 5 to 12, next to an empty punch in card holderWide angle view of the flight control room (FCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC). Some of the STS 41-G crew can be seen on a large screen at the front of the MCC along with a map tracking the progress of the orbiter.Terminal switch for the central Lafraun in Trento.May 1987 computers. Operator inspects robot-computer One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, EuropeRemote blocking switchgearPioneer Mission Control Center with personnel monitoring spacecraft (PMOC)The telephone station Malmskillsgatan 30, Stockholm. Tallinjevellarestative.Display of fire alarms in customs premises in Eskilstuna.Stand, component to reactor R1.Main operating panel for computerized controlled marine engine Copyright: xDebasishxBanerjee/DinodiaxPhotoxKeypad, processor unit and screen of the Sirius microcomputer, featuring a graphics tablet & mouse (bottom right), a device used to manipulate graphic screen displays & invoke utility functions in the computer. The mouse (the palm-sized object) is rolled over the surface of the tablet (eg along the lines on a drawing on the tablet) & the movement of a ball in the base of the mouse is measured & fed to the computer. The machine is running software written by Rochdale Ltd. of Stourbridge, UK, a company using CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer aided manufacture) systems to customize programs used by architects.08/10/1978. Paracuellos del Jarama flight controllers center (Madrid).One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, EuropeKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Program managers, directors and engineers work the consoles in the Launch Control Center. They are taking part in an End-to-End (ETE) Mission Management Team (MMT) launch simulation at KSC. In Firing Room 1 at KSC, Shuttle launch team members put the Shuttle system through an integrated simulation. The control room is set up with software used to simulate flight and ground systems in the launch configuration. The ETE MMT simulation included L-2 and L-1 day Prelaunch MMT meetings, an external tanking_weather briefing, and a launch countdown. The ETE transitioned to the Johnson Space Center for the flight portion of the simulation, with the STS-114 crew in a simulator at JSC. Such simulations are common before a launch to keep the Shuttle launch team sharp and ready for liftoff.Part of the Operationroom of the air traffic control of AOCS in Nieuw-Milligen.Group of scientist working in a control room, NASA Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas, USADetail of the setting table for automationHåkan Sterky. Director-General of the telegraph and Telecommaresverket 1942 - 1965.Kontor Datorer 70-tal. StockholmFLYWHEEL FACILITIES / TEST STANDS / CONTROL ROOMORDENADOR PARA REALIZAR TROQUELES. Location: FABRICA LASSO VEGA. MADRID. SPAIN.Woman looking at two television sets. One, similar to a set demonstrated at the 1939 New York World's fair, has a small screen incased horizontally in a large wooden cabinet and is viewed from a reflective mirror. The other, now displayed 25 years later at the 1964 New York World's fair, is a large screened color television.Telecommunications and data facilityProgrammer Bill Spier, a Computer Engineer with Computer Analysis Systems of Huntsville, Alabama, installs software at the Joint Project Optic Cobra Operations Center, Logan Heights. Bill is one of many civilian contracted computer specialists whose job it will be to manage combat information during the world's largest joint service, multi-national tactical air operations exercise. Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '97 Base: El Paso State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)Cable Network News Atlanta Georgia, USAAn experimental television from the National Broadcasting Company, circa 1937Electronic Workbench Electronic Engineer Desk With Power Supply in Workshop Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 8082229Arrangement of simulators and trainers at the operational school on the new port in Den Helder.Aviation Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Ken McKee of Patrol Squadron 56 (VP-56) troubleshoots a piece of electronic gear in a squadron maintenance shop. Base: Naval Air Station, Jacksonville State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)Image of work with a computer in the main building I (HGB I, Moreelsepark) of the N.S. in Utrecht.Combined gramaphone, receiver amplifier and record storage compartment by Grampian Reproductions.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, remodeling for launches of future human spaceflight vehicles continues in the Launch Control Center's Young-Crippen Firing Room. Consoles already have been rewired for the comprehensive upgrade and are now being outfitted with new computers and monitors.Known as Firing Room 1 in the Apollo era, it was re-named as a tribute to the Space Shuttle Program's first crewed mission, STS-1, which was flown by Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen in April 1981. The firing room most recently was set up to support the Ares I-X flight test in Oct. 2009.Publicity Photos of Bell Computing Machines at 19 Foot Pressure Tunnel Mrs. Doris Rudd Porter Baron photographed in the photos.World war Two, Enigma coding machine, used in the early to early-mid twentieth century for commercial and military usage.A weather technician operates data processing and video equipment connected with the Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON) to record sunspot activity. Base: Holloman Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)An image of an airplane radio telephone set from the Radio Division. The photograph was taken on February 15, 1919, and officially issued for use. The control panel shows the model number 2446 by Western Electric Company. Additionally, there are two experimental models labeled PI TO anyag 13.David Sarnoff (1891-1971), watching a demonstration of the RCA Electronic Light Amplifier at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ. In 1955. Sarnoff led RCA/NBC development of television, beginning in the late 1920s, and demonstrated a prototype in 1936. In 1939, Sarnoff introduced the first television show aired at the New York World's Fair.Historic photograph, largest wristwatch of the worldComputer monitors track observations at the Arecibo Radio Observatory.The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope just over 1,000 feet (305 m) across, the largest single radio telescope. The main metal collecting dish sits fixed a hemispherical karst sinkhole. The window looks out over the dish, and the spherical reflector (needed because the dish is fixed in place) can be seen hanging over the dish through the window. The observatory is the primary location of the National Astronomy and IonospA female electronics maintenance specialist inspects a piece of electronic equipment. Base: Norton Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)Personnel at Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesbergoxelösund Railways, TGOJ remote switchgear.Control panel, component to reactor R 1.Anefo photo collection. Start NOS Teletext on VU Amsterdam; Mare Euwe (law and prof. R.D. v.D. Riet at a screen. April 1, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-HollandWorkshop Director Angerm and Engineer Nils Palmgren.KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Interior view of the Mission Control Center during the launch sequence of Mercury-Atlas 8 MA-8).New telephone exchange system repairs itself or calls for help. Printed circuit board: a technician inserts a printed circuit board into place in the new U.S telephone exchange system. Thousands of the boards are used in a central telephone exchange. Mounted on the boards are transistors, semiconductor diodes and other electronic components, and metal 'teeth' on this end of the board make electrical connection with the rest of the equipment.Anefo photo collection. FIAREX 1964 in the RAI in Amsterdam, Philips brings a video recorder. September 14, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-HollandInterior view of the Mission Control CenterTelephone gear in the office building "Pennfäder".Buddy Hall, from the Training Support Center at Fort McPherson, Georgia, television branch, edits a tape of a recent ceremony. Base: Fort Mcpherson State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)