A Look at Some of the World's Vintage Technology

The technologies of the past have been eclipsed by the remarkable technology that we now use today.

However, we can't deny the fact that vintage technology is a forerunner for all of the technology that wouldn’t exist today without its dinosaur ancestry. Let's take a look at some of them...

Fire escape

The Auto Wash Bowl in Chicago. 1924.

Testing of 1.4 million volt X-ray machine, 1941

Early 20th Century Water Cyclist in a race over Lake Enghien, France

1913 copying machine

Archivists, France, 1937.

Motorized roller skates, 1961

The vending machine Paddington Station. London, 1929

Cosmetic masks to be worn by soldiers badly disfigured during World War I

1956, A 5MB hard drive being loaded onto a PanAm plane.

Bike ambulance, 1940s

Early prosthetic legs, from England in the 1890s.

First hair dryer – about 1920

Smokebot

Telephone Tower in Stockholm, c.1890s. The tower connected about 5000 telephone lines from 1897-1913

The Bennie Railplane 1929

The first telephone pay station in Los Angeles, at 228 S. Spring Street, 1899. The service was 50¢ per minute call to San Francisco would cost $13.58 per minute in today’s dollars.