black cat bats at fighter jet - street graffiti in Eugene, Oregon

What would Michelangelo have done with the swirling beauty of topographic maps? Happy birthday

Before Montara, there was Farallone City. Calif. Highways & Public Works mag 1937

Anti-dog device (!) advertised in 1952, found in program book for Angel Island celebration day

A really wide divide between text and image it's both a zoo and a tech abstract (Proc IRE, 1941)

Psychedelic enthusiasm for Hoover Dam from the state of Nevada in 1969, new today in #prelingerlibrary

Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto discoverer, signed guestbook at Griffith Observatory in 1987

1957 was a speeding comet headed our way on the cover of Hugo Gernsback's Christmas 1956 mini-annual, Forecast

Hugo Gernsback's annual prognostication mini-zine "Forecast" - 1963 issue cover with tri-sky-eye satellites

Can computers think? Illustration from 1962, from Hugo Gernsback's annual mini-zine "Forecast", cover scan to follow

The Art of Pantomime (1927): "I made my elbows work". New in the #prelingerlibrary

Satellite-enabled remote weather station at 2K feet near Colusa/Lake county line

MIR Space Station computer block, on exhibit at Computer History Museum

From Cape Farewell in the Arctic via a friend: Solstice Greetings

A pothead in the middle of a circuit diagram! Elec. Engineering 1959

Wet sandbox for grown-ups: Little River's shape-your-own ecosystem #agu2011

Bucket hanging in the storeroom of Zubal's books catches dripping Twinkie filling from when store was a Twinkie factory

@footage is boxed in to his workroom and can't get out while editing #LostLandscapes #Detroit

1960 ad promotes weather control as possible app of TIROS satellite

Box of artificial eyes at the museum of the history of science in Geneva