Metropolis, Germany

Martin Wagner

Planned remodelling of Potsdamer and Leipziger Platz, Berlin

1929

Two Beauties

Supermarine Swan flying boat and an ocean liner (most probably RMS Mauretania)

Soviet Functionalism

Soviet Pavilion, Paris Exposition, 1925

Architect: Konstantin Melnikov

Space Suit

Spanish Colonel Don Emilio Herrera Linares designed and built a full pressure suit (escafandra estratonautica) in 1935, which was to have been used during an open-basket balloon stratospheric flight scheduled for early 1936.

The Spanish Civil War intervened. Herrera chose the Republican side, and the rubberized silk suit was cannibalized to make rain ponchos for Republican troops. In 1939 he fled to France, where he died in exile in 1967.
Herrera's suit featured an inner airtight garment (tested in the bathtub in his flat in Seville), covered by an accordion-like, pleated and jointed metallic frame. Joints were made for the shoulders, hips, elbows, knees and the fingers. When tested at Cuatro Vientos Experimental Station, the suit's pressurized mobility was found to be "thoroughly satisfactory", according to its inventor. If this was he case, it means that he solved one of the main problems of pressure suit design decades before B F Goodrich or David Clark!

Source: Encyclopedia Astronautica

Photo: Nationaal Archief @ Flickr

Hollywood on the Moon

1938

Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon, on Flickr

La Promessa

Caproni Ca.73 at Schiphol, 1926

Source: Het Leven collection

Gateway to Africa

Roger Broders for PLM railway

1931

via transpressnz

Dada!

Raoul Hausmann, ABCD (self portrait)
1923-24

The Flying Robot

 

1931

At the Wheel

Balakhna Paper Mill, 1929

Photographer: Arkady Shaikhet

City of Tomorrow

Artist: Frank R. Paul

Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon @ Flickr

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Amazing * Wonderful * Fantastic

Crowds of Cars

Giuseppe Riccobaldi, 1936

Farman Eyes

1929

Het Leven collection

Beer Expressionism

Kindl Brewery tower, Berlin

1926

Architects: Hans Claus and Richard Schepke

Photo by Gabriele Kantel

Source

Streamline Kitchen Ware

Mickey wrote: "T G Green, based at Church Gresley near Burton-on-Trent, were famous manufacturers of kitchen ware - notably the blue and white striped 'Cornish Ware". The pottery closed some years ago, sadly, and the name is now continued simply as a brand. This catalogue cover for the very '30s style 'Streamline' wear dates I suspect from the latter half of the decade. "

Text and image: mickeyashworth @ Flickr

Transpress

Advertising everywhere

A. Mikhailov for the People's Commissariat of Transport

1925

This Is Bendix

1944

via x-ray delta one @ Flickr

Africa Line

1939

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Rationalist Villa

Architect: Marcello Canino

1930s

via giopuo @ Flickr

Another Contender

Bernard H.V.42, 1931

This gorgeous floatplane didn't make it to the Schneider Trophy. A 1000hp Hispano-Suiza engine didn't give the H.V.42 a single chance against powerful Supermarine and Macchi planes.

Obelisco

Photographer: Horacio Coppola

1936

Read about Horacio Coppola on Dieselpunks.org

(Special thanks to Lady Smoke)

Crocoloco

DRG E93 was a class of powerful (3355hp) heavy electric locomotives built by AEG for the German State Railways in 1933-1938.

 Inspired by electric locos of the Swiss and Austrian Federal Railways, it was also dubbed Krokodil (crocodile).

18 units were built.

Source: Deutsche Krokodil website

Subway Tram

This colourful illustration was issued by the then municipal London County Council Tramways to publicise the re-opening of the subterranean Kinsway tram subway in 1931. It had been reconstructed to take double-deck trams. The subway ran from Theobolds Road to the Embankment, under Waterloo Bridge, and there were two tram 'stations' - at Holborn and Aldwych. It was an essential link between the vast tram network north and south of the Thames that would otherwise have been, effectively, severed due to the refusal of the inner London Councils at the time to countenance street running of tramways.
The poster shows both tram stations, the street above and the trams - 'Pullman' rather cheekily referred to the refurbishment of trams the LCC carried out - with upholstered seats - to make them less basic in comparison with the rapidly developing motor bus!
The artwork was also used as the cover for a booklet at the time.

Text, image: mickeyashworth @ Flickr

Automotive Lottery

Not a single worker without a lottery ticket!

Avtodor billboard by the Stenberg brothers

Photograph: A. Rodchenko

1928

Big Guns

1938

via x-ray delta one @ Flickr

Metropolis in Red

By rodolforever @ DeviantArt

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