Automatic Dishwasher and Stacker Cutaway, 1957
From the engineers at Honeywell in 1957 comes this prediction that, by A.D. 2000, we will have machines under our dining room […]
Category: Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections
Cutaway and cross-section drawings of vehicles, weapons, submarines, airplanes, buildings, and more.
Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I […]
Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened
The plan made a lot of sense. If you were going to have a freeway running right through San Francisco’s Panhandle, which […]
Radio City Music Hall Stage Cutaway, 1950
Fantastic cutaway of New York’s Radio City Music Hall stage in 1950, showing the 57 foot pistons that operate the three stage […]
Fantastic Department Store Cutaway, 1950s
Yet another mind-blowing cutaway from master illustrator Frank Soltesz. Few people realize that half of a department store is devoted to areas […]
BZhRK Barguzin Russian Rail Missile Had Precedent with Peacekeeper Rail System, 1986
Over at Popular Mechanics, Kyle Mizokami reports that Russia is developing a rail-mounted system of mobile ICBMs that will constantly rove the […]
Boeing Stratocruiser Cutaway, 1952
Click Image For Full 1636 x 781 px Size In 1952, the 67.5 ton Boeing Stratocruiser cost a (then) whopping $1.5 million. With […]
Camper Built Inside a Car, 1952
The illustrator for this drawing is unknown, which is a shame because it’s such a precisely rendered cutaway of a 1949 […]
Triple Deck Auto Transport Plane Cutaway, 1952
A lovely 3-color cutaway by Popular Science stalwart, technical illustrator Ray Piotch, of the Blackburn Universal Freighter (“BUF”). The BUF had […]
Super Dome Train Car Cutaway, 1952
Sightseeing “dome” rail cars were not new in 1952, but to this point these VistaDomes, as they were called, had extended only […]