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 […]
Old vs. New Locomotive Cutaway, 1920
It was a fairly accurate prediction, in 1920, of the difference between the bulky locomotive of the day vs. the predicted streamlined […]
Soviet T-34 Tank Cutaway, 1950
A circa 1950 G.H. Davis cutway drawing of two Soviet T-34 tanks (in the rear is the bottom of the upcoming Joseph […]
Cutaway of TV Studio Floating on Air, 1950
This TV studio in Chicago had one problem: it was located in the same building as printing presses for the Chicago Tribune. […]
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 […]
Aircraft Carrier Steam Catapult Cutaway, 1953
Pictured is a 1953 cutaway of the planned HMS Perseus, showing the novel introduction of a steam catapult to replace the customary […]
Community Bomb Shelter Under Bridge, 1962
In addition to small residential bomb shelters built in backyards or in basements, some communities planned–and in some cases, built–larger shelters for […]
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 […]