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Vintage black and white photographs of early 20th-century electrical distribution boards and control rooms, highlighting historical technology.

Image of food equipment for the Bull Computer (IBM 1401) in one of the main buildings of the N.S. in Utrecht.
Image of food equipment for the Bull Computer (IBM 1401) in one of the main buildings of the N.S. in Utrecht.
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1949 computer used by rocket scientists at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, (now John Glenn Research Center), Cleveland Ohio.
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Electric control panel for heating and ventilation equipment. Sits in the traffic company Grängesberg - Oxelösund Railway, TGOJ YOA 104.
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Electronic equipment at the Electronic and Air Force Depot Material Klu (DELM).
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1920 (CA.) The machine you can talk to at home, called Visiontone.
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Mainframe computer Sperry UNIVAC 90/80 was released in 1976 by the Sperry Rand Corporation to compete with the IBM System 360 series of mainframe computers.
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Detail studies of telephone AB100. 2 tr in the borrowing house, telescopic.
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War A general surface search Radar set with a Type 277 aerial fitted to HMS Swiftsure, a Minotaur class cruiser at Scapa Flow. The parabolic reflector is made of wire mesh, in order to lower its weight and wind loading. On the left is the drive motor that is used to stabilize the antenna vertically as the ship rolls. Opposite on the right is a rotating waveguide connection. The waveguide, labeled W7897, runs behind the reflector to the top, and then down the face of the reflector. A second waveguide, labeled W7899 (or W5899), connects the rotating joint to the base of the mount, where it meets another rotating connection.
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in  australia the concept of power line with electrical pole in the clear sky
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A view of a satellite monitoring panel. Country: Unknown
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Film camera that can move from 35 mm film to 65 mm film in less than ten minutes.
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Recorder cupboard in the Meob sonar workplace,
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A member of Company A, 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, demonstrates the touch-sensitive screen of an Ames Brassboard system. Base: Fort Lewis State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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1960S Close-Up Frontal View Of Multi Lens Television Camera In Studio
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Console television receiver with 12 inch Cathode-Ray tube, by Kolster-Brandes.
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Base or Station W on Detaille Island. Base W is a remote and rarely visited abandoned scientific station. West Antarctica. (Editorial Use Only)
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Telephone exchange at Stockholm Central Station.
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1960S Two Men Computer Programmers In Ibm 3680 Mainframe Computer Room
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Harvey Lomax in front of the Cm-5 Parallel computer in the NAS Facility N-258 in honor of 50yrs of service
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Control console of Type Oto Melare ship gun on board Hr.Ms. Callenburgh.
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Sporting Life photographer Norman Herfort using the new wonder camera developed by Chief Camera Mechanic of Associated Newspapers Limited, W. Whitehead.The remarkable camera can freeze the fastest action into startling immobility and record what the eye cannot detect.Sporting Life's frozen-action camera is a development of the DeVry movie camera fitted with a 20-inch telephoto lens and takes 12 frames a second on 35 mm film.Sporting Life will use its frozen-action camera to provide a unique series of instructional films on all sports. February 5, 1951.
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L 650 refrigerator, front view.
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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)
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The Ground Launch Cruise Missile (GLCM) launcher control panel. The panel is used to raise and lower the launch tubes. Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Television in the 1950s. A man with an early television set in production or testing is adjusting the picture. November 1953
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Mr. Televox, was designed by Westinghouse to promote an early remote control switching device, the Televox. The robot was actually a cardboard cutout placed in front of the Televox box.
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Low angle view of an engineer standing in front of a Scimitar antenna
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A technician operates a C-5 Galaxy aircraft flight simulator control console. Base: Travis Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Television in the 1950s. A man with an early television set in production or testing at the Elfo company is experimenting with television technology. January 1954
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The solar oven of Bouzar©ah in Algeria.
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1970s 1960s COMPUTER ROOM MAN RCA 7045 PROCESSOR MAIN FRAME
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DIGITAL IMAGING EQUIPMENT designed by CYBERWARE used to duplicate three dimensional figures
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Anefo photo collection. Color TV devices in window. August 3, 1972
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3/4 front view offull scale X-22A ducted fan model. Chuck Greco
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Young cut phone station. DC Moberg shows the telephone maid Knut Andersson features in the automatic gear.
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A journalist edits videotape for a Navy Broadcasting Service, Keflavik radio show. Base: Naval Air Station, Keflavik Country: Iceland (ISL)
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television receiver from USA 1930
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Mainframes in a computer lab
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Lighting. Charging regulator. (Charge relay.)
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Telecommunications and data facility
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NISN at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) provides Shuttle data information for the operation of MSFC's Huntsville Operation Support Center (HOSC) during Shuttle missions
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Bells PicturePhone in 1964 as it was presented on a poster.
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Anefo photo collection. Mr Krebbers from Deventer invented a device to receive the second German network. October 9, 1962. Deventer
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Connect: K8. 2 refrigerators in a casing, open.
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DISCONNECTED (EV001431_H)
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SCR-658 Radio Direction Finder
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Dr. Serge A. Korff, well known cosmic ray physicist of New York University, telephones instruction from Rawin antenna being tested for later use in cosmic ray balloons flights
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Holophane - Light reflector from AB Osram-Electer, Stockholm.
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A view of a modern computer disk drive on display at one of the pavilions at the Exhibition of Soviet National Economic Achievement. Base: Moscow Country: Russia (RUS)
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El Segundo, California:  August 6, 1968 This mobile TV satellite gorund station will be installed in Bogota, Columbia to transmit live color television coverage of Pope Paul VI's visit there later this month. Here it is being demonstrated to Sister Cecilia Louise, the president of Mount St. Mary's college in Los Angeles.
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Old computers in the Computer Museum, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
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Technicians use cad computers for industrial design
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Scorped phone station, crusted, Ångermanland, the telephony Anna RittCen.
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Vintage Photograph. Exploring retro technology with vintage computer use.
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A training officer at the U.S. Military Academy works with a computerized training aid. Base: West Point State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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100' Satellite Packaging of Echo
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Mainframe computer Sperry UNIVAC 90/80 was released in 1976 by the Sperry Rand Corporation to compete with the IBM System 360 series of mainframe computers.
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England, London, South Kensington, Science Museum, Ernie 1, early English digital computer, 1957
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Presentation of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Astronaut John Herschel Glenn, Jr., at Cape Canaveral. Project Mercury Flight Director Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. (left) and astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. (center) brief President John F. Kennedy on the operation of the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, prior to the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn. Unidentified cameraman stands on table at right. Brevard County, Florida.
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Anefo photo collection. FIAREX 1968 in RAI Amsterdam The Sony portable video band recorder and camera set. October 28, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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ORDENADOR PERSONAL APPLE II.
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Elsevier photo collection. One of the many colors television devices that take a large place on the Firato '67 between the radio, pick-up combinations and many electronic device. For more than 2900 guilders you have such a color TV. September 20, 1967
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Anefo photo collection. Firato exhibition in the RAI. Viditel system, news and information m.b.v. Telephone on the TV. August 28, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Ames Director William 'Bill' Ballhaus (center left) joins visitor Sir Jeffrey Pope from Royla Aircraft Industry, England (center right) at the NAS Facility Cray 2 computer with Ron Deiss, NAS Deputy Manager (L) and Vic Peterson, Ames Deputy Director (R).
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Changing channels (OV2020_04)
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RATAN - UNF Television Receivers, (Series 4 of 4). The U. S. Coast Guard today introduced RATAN, its latest electronic aid to small boating. This represents the first time that television has been incorporated into an aids to navigation system for civilian maritime use. RATAN, which stands for Radar and Television Aid to Navigation, utilizes an image provided by a high-definition shore-based radar which is then transmitted by UHF television for the reception aboard ships and boats in the general area. This final picture is transmitted for reception with UHF television receivers aboard boats as shown here. This picture is interpreted by the navigator to maintain a continuous position fix and know his location with respect to the movements of other vessels in the vicinity.
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Vintage photographer holding video camera vector image
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Trainer with a printed board assembly in front of a board showing a circuit board
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Gradient antenna waveguide switch designed to pass electromagnetic energy from transmitter to antenna and backwards.
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Visolux's booth at the Technical Fair.
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CAMARA DE TELEVISION.
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Detail of an electrical cable at unknown location in the United States; 6000 Volt rubber cable with copper jacket.
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Radio Craft: The Radio Set of 1950, Electronics - Radio & Wireless
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Pacman in the retro games sector at gamescom, the world's largest trade fair for video and computer games in Cologne, Germany, Europe
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Condenser telephone in use. New York, dated 1890.
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Kalmar telephone networks. 1900. Telegraf station.
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Condenser telephone in use. New York, dated 1890.
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The Technical Fair. Billman controller booth.
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Wireless Age: The Radio Magazine, Electronics - Radio & Wireless
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Radio Craft: Electronic Egg Grader, Electronics - Radio & Wireless
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Short Wave Craft: How to Make the New All-Wave Receiver, Electronics - Radio & Wireless
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The gantry rolls back at Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on Sept. 14, 2018, for the final United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket which will carry NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). Liftoff is scheduled for Sept. 15, 2018, at 8:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 a.m. PDT). The satellite will measure the height of our changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses per second. ICESat-2 will provide scientists with height measurements that create a global portrait of Earth's third dimension, gathering date that can precisely track changes of terrain, including glaciers, sea ice and forests.
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