Golden Gate Bridge, 1968
Turtle Personal Tank, 1952
Atomic-Powered Heating System for Building, 1952
Hal B. Hayes House, Hollywood California, 1953
Winchester .22 Model 52 Rifle Trigger Mechanism Cutaway, 1951
Hand Grenade Cutaway Drawing, 1951
B-24 Liberator Bomber Cutaway Drawing, 1943
Colt .45 Automatic Pistol Cutaway, 1951
It’s a pretty fanciful look at a double-decker Golden Gate Bridge that never happened. The neighboring Oakland Bay Bridge is double-decker, but not the Golden Gate Bridge.
No information about this cutaway found on Flickr than the artist is Michele and the date is 1968.
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Golden Gate Bridge 1968
Source: JoeKane17
A gorgeous late 1960s cutaway from Pierre Mion for the “Deep Diver,” a ferry submarine designed by Edwin A. Link and built by Perry Submarine Builders, Riviera Beach, FL.
This 22-foot, 4-man craft was meant for work, not play–underwater construction or research.
Interestingly, Perry Submarines is still around and making submersibles, one of which is going for $695,000!
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Deep Diver Ferry Submarine Cutaway 1967
Source: Popular Mechanics July 1967
This Quonset hut-style hospital was kept inflated by compressed air from a utility unit. Standing 20 x 52 feet, this portable hospital’s utility unit provided the positive air flow, power, heat, hot and cold water, and most welcome in the Southeast Asia jungles–air conditioning.
Note: poor alignment of pages cuts off part of structure.
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Inflatable Vietnam War-Era Quonset Hut Cutaway, 1967
Source: Popular Science July 1967
Pickup Truck Camper Cutaway 1967
This pickup truck camper was pretty state-of-the-art stuff for RVs in the late 1960s.
It had a pass-through to the cab; 12v outlets; aircraft inclinometers to indicate when the camper was leveled off; stiff springs; and an over-the-cab bunk.
Source: Popular Mechanics May 1967
In addition to small residential bomb shelters built in backyards or in basements, some communities planned–and in some cases, built–larger shelters for the community.
Most community bomb shelters were based in existing buildings–church or school basements, in particular. But this cutaway drawing shows a bomb shelter under a bridge built for this express purpose.
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Community Bomb Shelter Under Bridge, 1962
Source: LIFE January 12, 1962
Home Nuclear Bomb Fallout Shelter, 1962
Nice, if low-resolution, cutaway drawing of a nuclear fallout (i.e., bomb) shelter from 1962.
Source: Fallout Shelter Handbook by Chuck West. Published by Fawcett Books.
Home Fallout Shelter 1960
Home-based nuclear fallout shelters combined everything that magazines needed in the 1960s to attract readers: fear, home remodeling, and the opportunity for producing great cutaways.
Just going into your basement during nuclear attack would decrease your chance of radioactive exposure to 10% of the exposure if you had stayed outside.
By undertaking some pretty major home remodels, all located in your basement and all eventually unused, you could shrink that statistic another ten-fold.
Source: Popular Mechanics October 1960
Nuclear Bomb Shelter Cutaway 1961
This cutaway of a home-based nuclear bomb shelter from 1961 was designed by the Office of Civil Defense to be built for less than $280 in materials.
Source: Popular Mechanics December 1961
Basement Bomb Shelter, 1961
In 1961, LIFE extolled the benefits of building a basement bomb shelter out of pre-cast concrete blocks.
This cutaway drawing shows how the homeowner would have situated the shelter in a corner of the basement where it had no windows.
The article estimated materials cost not to exceed $200. It was estimated that radiation within the shelter would be about 1% of radiation outside.
As a final warning, the article mentioned that, should the nuclear warhead hit within 10-15 miles of you, the house might be blown down onto the shelter and catch fire.
Source: LIFE Sep 15, 1961
The Titan II Missile Underground Launch Complex (Large Image) is classic Cold War-era cutaway stuff. At the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona, you can tour the entire facility. As their brochure states:
The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was the first liquid propellant missile that could be launched from underground. Equipped with a nine-megaton thermonuclear warhead, the Titan II was capable of reaching its target—more than half a world away—in less than thirty minutes. The preserved Titan II missile site, officially known as complex 571-7, was completed and turned over to the U.S. Air Force in 1963. Until 1987, when the last Titan II was deactivated, 54 Titan II
missile complexes across the United States stood “on alert” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
A cutaway from Fortune Magazine (1960) is a bit more artful and fanciful, and looks more like the cover of a sci-fi paperback than a true cutaway:
