Aerocratic Futurism

Diving over City by Tullio Crali, 1936
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Dieselpunk Subs

British T-class submarine
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An Odd One

Zeiss Ikon Contaflex 35-mm TLR Camera, 1936
Just a moment... How comes? 35-mm and twin-lens arrangement? And if I want to change a lens, can I? Yes, Zeiss could do it - and produced one of its least successful cameras. Heavy and bulky, it couldn't beat Kine-Exacta and was hardly a match for advanced reporter. But it looks amazing, doesn't it?
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Soviet 78 rpm Single Label

1939

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Cover art of H.G.Wells' War of the Worlds, 1934 Irish edition

Soviet Airship

Dirigible by Vassily Kuptsov (oil on canvas, 1933)
Interesting style - very much alike second-generation Italian Futurism of the same period.
Dirigible depicted is ill-fated CCCP B-5 (USSR V5). Built in 1933, it was dismantled in 1934 - its 'envelope' was leaking and generally unreliable. While a new 'envelope' development has been in progress, a lightning struck hangar near Moscow where parts of the dirigible were stored. Everything went down to ashes, not only cases with B-5 parts, but its sistership B-4 (also dismantled) and a brand-new B-7 as well.
All of these airships were half-rigid, thus not falling into a 'Zeppelin' cathegory.
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Originally posted by me @ Dieselpunk LJ

Tatra Goes Wild

Tatra 903 Concept by Mike Jelinek
A futurist vision of Tatra's glorious past
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Pictures from Auto Design & Style, Czech Republic
Originally posted by Rogix @ Dieselpunk LJ