[HN Gopher] John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three...
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John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional
Diagrams
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 94 points
Date : 2024-09-13 16:08 UTC (5 days ago)
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| rwmj wrote:
| If an article ever needed more, larger photographs it'd be this
| one.
|
| On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s
| which contains beautiful cutaway drawings of high technology from
| the era (everything from telephones to Advanced Gas-Cooled
| Reactors). Edit: How Things Work, Volumes I & II published by
| Paladdin. There's a borrowable copy of Vol II at the IA:
| https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595...
| (can't find if they have Vol I).
| jgrahamc wrote:
| As a child I had the book "What makes it go?" which was full of
| illustrations of how machines work:
| https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/06003926...
| mhandley wrote:
| There's a blast from the past - I had that book too and
| absolutely loved it. I'm glad I grew up in an era when a
| child had some hope of thinking they could understand all the
| technology around them (even though with hindsight, I know
| that knowledge was extremely superficial).
| itishappy wrote:
| Anybody here have "The Way Things Work" or "The New Way
| Things Work"?
|
| Haven't opened it in 20 years, but I don't think I've poured
| over a book the same way since.
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-
| Macaulay/dp/039...
|
| https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473
| midenginedcoupe wrote:
| Mercedes World have a Formula 1 car exploded like this. It's fab.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAWi1dh8Fs
| rmholt wrote:
| Has he ever worked on pagers by a chance
| Molitor5901 wrote:
| Better photos on his website: http://www.johnperaltafineart.com/
| motohagiography wrote:
| these are amazing and beautiful. the singer sewing machine is
| particularly useful as I use a standing one as a modular synth
| workstation, but there is a full sewing machine inside it I've
| never used.
| Loughla wrote:
| I'm kind of disappointed that it's only broken into major
| components.
|
| They're still super cool, but to see every little spring and cog
| and switch represented by their own monofilament would be pretty
| neat.
| rwmj wrote:
| Along those lines, this is a neat TV series with James May (of
| Top Gear fame):
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May:_The_Reassembler
| lrivers wrote:
| What a great use case for a 3D representation
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