The Trautonium is one of the earliest (if not the first) synthesizers ever made, the first prototype having been developed in 1929. 90 years of synthesizer history! This one lacks a traditional keyboard and instead uses a metal wire contact controller.
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The Ford Nucleon is a concept car developed by Ford in 1957 designed as a future nuclear-powered car, one of a handful of such designs during the 1950s and '60s.
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This device is called a synchroscope. Is is used to synchronize the generator to the electrical grid.
For a proper synchronization it has to spin clockwise very slowly and the generator breaker should be closed at the 12 o’clock position.
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Running on a Donner Model 30 computer with an oscilloscope display Tennis For Two was one of the earliest videogames in history. The computer was originally designed for calculating ballistic missile trajectories.
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A Ford Seattlite XXI, a nuclear powered concept car of the 1960s. It had double steer axles in the front in order to hold the weight of the miniature nuclear reactor.
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The first international partnership in space wasn't the @Space_Station. It wasn't even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project! The mission's success was the first 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 in paving the way for future international partnerships🤝
#OTD in 1966, Earth received the first photos from the lunar surface. The Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 sent back only a few photos of the moon before its batteries ran out. Luna 9 also proved that the moon could support the weight of a lander without it sinking into the dust.
Core Rope Memory, which was woven exclusively for the Apollo Missions since the rattling of rockets damaged the more delicate conventional computer board hardware.
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Women back in the day were very intelligent with electronic music, but sadly very obscure pioneers. Laurie Spiegel is a woman who worked at Bell labs and even programmed her own software for one of the first digital synthesizers. The sound of a goddess.
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