Ship-Based Anti Submarine Defense Cutaway, 1950
Illustration by Ray Quigley shows an anti-sub device from 1950 termed “the hedgehog.” It lobbed multiple depth charges all at once at […]
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Railroad Boxcar Sweeper Arm Cutaway, 1950
This unusual device, made by Stephens-Adamson Co. of Los Angeles, CA, reached deep into boxcars that had loose contents and swept the […]
Photo-Realistic Transparent Movie Set Backdrop, 1950
For most of movie history, set backdrops had been opaque (non-transparent) sheets of fabric stitched together to form larger, set-sized sheets. In […]
Arctic Wanigan Cutaway, 1950
The “wanigan” was an 8 x 24 foot mobile caboose that was attached to the back of Arctic explorers’ tracked wagon trains. […]
Dry-Land Submarine Trainer, 1950
Its proper name was the Mark VII Attack Teacher and it was housed in a 3 story building in New London, CT. […]
Deep Diver “Ferry” Submarine Cutaway, 1967
A gorgeous late 1960s cutaway from Pierre Mion for the “Deep Diver,” a ferry submarine designed by Edwin A. Link and built […]
Inflatable Vietnam War-Era Quonset Hut Cutaway, 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 […]
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Cutaway, 1950
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was new in 1950, when Alexander Leydenfrost drew this cutaway. At 9,117 feet, it is the longest continuous underwater […]
Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920
Elevator-style car parks were still quite a novelty when this cutaway was published in 1920. The garage shown could hold 6x the […]
Pierre Mion: Illustrator of Many Talents
In writing about the technical/cutaway illustrators of the 20th century, I am accustomed to seeing dates of death in the 1950s and […]