Mercury Moll: Mrs. Linda Plannette
We’re barely out of the 1940s–1952, to be exact–and this lovely lady is presaging the Sixties already by wearing cut-off jeans shorts, […]
Golden Gate Bridge, 1968
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 […]
Turtle Personal Tank, 1952
As far as I know, this one-man tank never left the mind of Les G. Scherer. Scherer designed this personal-sized tank to […]
Atomic-Powered Heating System for Building, 1952
This was real, not Fifties fantasy: a building heated by atomic energy. Appropriately enough, the building, located in Harwell, England, was the […]
Hal B. Hayes House, Hollywood California, 1953
Though I’ve lately dedicated this site to cutaway drawings from the golden age of illustration art–1930s to 1960s–certain things come along that […]
Winchester .22 Model 52 Rifle Trigger Mechanism Cutaway, 1951
Even a .22 rifle has a complicated trigger mechanism. This one, a Winchester Model 52 from 1951, is timeless. You’ll find essentially […]
Hand Grenade Cutaway Drawing, 1951
Despite its fearsome reputation in TV and movies, a hand grenade is a fairly simple and imprecise killing device: a metal container that […]
B-24 Liberator Bomber Cutaway Drawing, 1943
Naturally, in the popular press of the time, Consolidated Vultee’s B-24 Liberator bomber would be hailed as a magnificent fighting machine, capable […]
Colt .45 Automatic Pistol Cutaway, 1951
This cutaway of the classic Colt .45 Automatic was part of Popular Science’s “Know Your Weapons” series that started up in 1951. […]
Atomic Airplane Cutaway, 1951
Even though I like Ray Pioch, his 1951 cutaway drawing of this fanciful atomic airplane really isn’t very good. It’s got the […]