The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is the oldest electric elevated railway with hanging cars in the world9mo ⋅ hungryhungoverhippo ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Whitney Wolverine; An atomic age influenced .22 pistol produced from '56-'579mo ⋅ HaveGunsWillShoot ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
A Fifties navigation system. Don't know who imagined this but I love it!10mo ⋅ GiantNormalDwarf ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Hoverboards and delivery drones predicted in a 1958 Soviet cartoon2mo ⋅ GeneReddit123 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
James Bond receives a text via his smartwatch in The Spy Who Loved Me.1yr ⋅ malakeos ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The delegate from Venus by Edward Valigursky, cover for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, October 19582mo ⋅ Xeelee1123 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Anyone seen the bus stops built in the USSR? Links to more pics in comments10mo ⋅ lucasliso ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
This was an actual space suit Grumman Aircraft Corp tried to sell NASA in 1962.3yr ⋅ Novusod ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
My grandfather was an artist for General Motors from 1950's to 1980's, here are some of his concepts for cars of the future6mo ⋅ That_Martian_Man ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
One of the last steam trains from Belgium. If I recall correctly, only 6 were made and only number 4 is still alive.1yr ⋅ florre ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Spock using a slide rule on the bridge of the Entreprise. Instead of using the ship's super computer to do whatever it is he is trying to do.9mo ⋅ lucasliso ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
1958 Golden Sahara II w/ Goodyear Illuminated Neothane Glow Tires11mo ⋅ ashe101ashe ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
What Nissan thought would be the future of the automotive industry shown in the NRV-II concept car(1982). Pretty damn accurate.1yr ⋅ bardia_afk ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The Golden Arrow. It recorded a landspeed record of 231mph (372kph).... in 1929.7mo ⋅ draganaughtz ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Get That Thing Out of Here by Wally Wood (The most futuristic thing about this painting? Mom has pockets.)2mo ⋅ 50thStreetInc ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
This piece is recent (2018) but I think the style fits (by Reza Afshar from Tehran)4mo ⋅ DevLloyd ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Steering wheel/dashboard for the 1986 Oldsmobile Inca concept car.11mo ⋅ 5_Frog_Margin ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
A space-age Soviet era mural in a Chernobyl administrative building6mo ⋅ HydrolicKrane ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
I, for one, welcome our new rat overlords, cover art for Rog Philipps 'Rats in the Skull' by Ed Enshwiler1mo ⋅ Xeelee1123 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Cover Art For Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy by Michael Whelan2mo ⋅ SubstantialRange ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
100 Years Ago Today [25 January 1921] Czech playwright Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) premieres in Prague and introduces the concept of autonomous, mechanical men - known today as “Robots.”2mo ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Asimov holding a fish, from a 1983 Japanese copy of one of his books.1yr ⋅ Smoke_Me_When_i_Die ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Credit goes to u/spaniel-rage. The Bulova Computron re-issue.1yr ⋅ THEHELICOPTERSOHGOD ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
