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[#1 posted by dan, March 26, 2008 1:51 PM]

That's a very Escher-ian image, what with the pipe he's adjusting connecting to the device on the table behind him...

[#2 posted by V, March 26, 2008 2:12 PM]

That's one hell of an espresso maker.

[#3 posted by Shawn Wolfe, March 26, 2008 3:16 PM]

Yeah whatever that rig is, it's like totally bogatoid.

[#4 posted by Bionicrat2, March 26, 2008 3:23 PM]

Is that a man or a woman? A very feminine face and a rather shiny looking blouse...

[#5 posted by Takuan, March 26, 2008 3:26 PM]

just pulled my mint condition, 1959 printing, Golden Book Encyclopedia out - suppose I should scan the covers one day

[#6 posted by Takuan, March 26, 2008 3:28 PM]

just a very young Kyle MacLachlan

[#7 posted by Takuan, March 26, 2008 3:34 PM]

figures

http://www.gibsonbooks.com/shop_image/product/42510.jpg

[#8 posted by mikesum32, March 26, 2008 3:45 PM]

I think it more Rube Goldberg-ian. Um, Goldberg-esque... ? Goldberg-ese... ?

And unless K.D. Lang travelled in time to the 1950s(60s?), I doubt that's a woman. Gender roles, pants, and hair are the give-aways.

[#9 posted by mikesum32, March 26, 2008 3:49 PM]

I also bet it either shoots you or makes you breakfast.

[#10 posted by efergus3, March 26, 2008 4:39 PM]

Actually it's a very famous moment. Al Gore inventing the Internet.

[#11 posted by Robert, March 26, 2008 4:54 PM]

@#9:

It shoots you IN ORDER TO make you breakfast.

[#12 posted by Lileks, March 26, 2008 5:21 PM]

Actually, that's Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk. And they used that thing on their second album; it made one note, but it was a very influential one.

[#13 posted by tikal2k, March 26, 2008 5:53 PM]

It's a series of tubes.

[#14 posted by Bean Eater, March 27, 2008 8:26 AM]

Is Digg down?

[#15 posted by Anonymous, September 3, 2009 4:45 PM]

Also be sure to check out the mid-century science pool on flickr, it has tons of awesome vintage science, and I finally found the vintage periodic table I was looking for on there!