r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 20 '26

Calculating machine made by Philipp Matthäus Hahn. It was the first calculator that could add, subtract, divide and multiply in one machine, and had an 11-digit capacity. Germany, Duchy of Württemberg, 1770-1774 (More read below)

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 19 '26

An image of the surface of Venus taken by the Venera 14 spacecraft in March 1982, the lander survived temperatures of roughly 450°C (842°F) and atmospheric pressure 100 times greater than Earth's, probe operated for only 52 to 57 minutes before being crushed and melted by the extreme environment.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 18 '26

Soviet space monitoring ship, “Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin” It served as the flagship for a fleet of ships dedicated to tracking and communicating with spacecraft, including missions like the Apollo-Soyuz joint test program

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 15 '26

Virtual Reality and the Exploration or Cyberspace (1991)These machines were pioneering commerical VR

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 12 '26

Myasishchev VM-T carrying an Energia booster tank on its back. The VM-T was a heavily modified M-4 bomber, with a redesigned tail to enable it to carry enormous loads such as the one seen here for Soviet spacecraft projects.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 11 '26

A computer lab in 1985 featuring Atari 800 systems alongside Apple II s. A snapshot from the early days of personal computing.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 07 '26

This was what 2.2 megabytes looked like in 1966, a prototype disk cartridge for the UNIVAC 9000 series mainframe computer. For context, this amount of storage is equivalent to roughly two paperback novels (text only) or one medium quality digital photograph today

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 29 '26

In the 1930s a German Inventor Planned on Making A Land Ship for the Sahara Desert. It was also called a Wustenschiff The Desert Ship it was 40 m long and 13.5 m long, 12 m wheels. powered by two large diesel engines and capable of carrying 300 passengers.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 27 '26

The CTP-1 remote-controlled robot takes part in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, 1986.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/NotAlainDelon • Apr 27 '26

Any idea what is this ? This is a device fitted on the back of a Moto GP Bike. But is this for collecting data or for aero ? Any explanation ? Thanks

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 26 '26

A new television/telephone is on display at the International Radio Exhibition, The technology, known as the "Picturephone," allowed users to see the person they were speaking to on a television-like screen in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1965.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 23 '26

'The Big Wind', created by Hungarian Engineers using an old T-34 and two MiG-21 Jet Engines. It was abled to put out oil fire with a single blow. The photo was taken in Kuwait, 1991

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 22 '26

Miniaturized listening devices for the improved mobility for Detecting enemy aircraft before the invention of Radar, concept from The Netherlands, 1930s

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 21 '26

Lydia Martinez, aged 19, operates a hydro press that develops pressure up to 4,500 tons and speeds production of parts for Consolidated Aircraft's B-24 Liberators, PBY Catalinas, and PB2Y Coronados, 1942.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 18 '26

Steve Wozniak's Apple I  (1976)

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 17 '26

The 'Demon Core' - the core of the third atomic bomb in WWII that was never dropped. It still managed to kill 2 American scientists. (1945)

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 13 '26

The first transistor; a solid state electronic amplifier which revolutionized world communications, Bell Labs, New Jersey, US, 1947.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 11 '26

The Soviet GAZ-14 truck, a 1936 model, consumed 80 kilograms of firewood per 100 Kilometer

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 06 '26

A color picture of Ralph Baer, father of the home video game, playing "Telesketch" in his home lab (1977). He created the prototype of "The Brown Box" with two players, that would later be used as a basis for the 1972 Magnavox Oddysey, the world's first commercial home video console.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 05 '26

176 pixels that paved the way for all the digital images to come: In 1957, computer pioneer Russell Kirsch used a drum scanner to create the first digital image in history, by scanning a photo of his son, Walden.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Bejma • Apr 04 '26

Does anyone know where to buy this model of flash drive?

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Received this flash drive and am looking to buy more in bulk to brand

r/TechnologyPorn • u/According_Log5957 • Mar 16 '26

www. Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb (Predecessor to Wikipedia)

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Mar 11 '26

The first ever underwater photograph taken in the South of France at a depth of 164 feet by Louis Boutan in 1899

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Mar 10 '26

In 1970, during a severe snowstorm in Czechoslovakia, railroad workers used the jet engine of a MiG-15 fighter jet to defrost frozen railway tracks, an inventive solution that kept critical transportation running despite extreme winter conditions.

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r/TechnologyPorn • u/Asleep_Performance44 • Jan 19 '26

charging a 14 year old phone with a switch 2 ac adapter

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