Thursday, May 11, 2006
Soviet gadget thumbnails link-site
This is a thumbnail gallery of links to Soviet-era technology and gadgets, from the BK0100 Soviet come computer to chunky old mics, radiation meters, typewriters, stereo cameras and the transistor radio kit shown here.
I love this stuff -- Soviet engineers had a terrific eye for physical design. My great-uncle Bora is a curator at St Peterburg's A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications a tremendous exhibition of Soviet and pre-Soviet gadgetry . It's absolutely packed with things like these. I nearly passed out with joy when I toured it (check out my photos from my visit to Russia last summer).
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